DRESSed-Up Photography exhibition

Since 1989, Charles Kleibacker has enthralled Museum visitors with the exciting world of high fashion. Exhibitions such as Reel to Real, DRESSed-up Photography, and Couture/Ready-to-Wear, for which Charles served as guest curator, provide the Museum with wonderful opportunities to bring forth his historic collection and designs from other collections, including garments Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. We trust this is the beginning of a long relationship with Charles and that the Museum will continue to serve as a venue for the examination of one of the most popular art forms which so vividly reflects changing tastes.

Photo by Neal Barr	1920s dress of panne velvet
Photo by Neal Barr	1930s bias-cut wedding dress
Photo by Neal Barr	Early 1940s dress by Lange for Hildegarde
Photo by Horst	1940s rayon dinner dress for Joan Crawford
Photo by Horst	1948 dress by Bruyère for Hildegarde
Photo by Horst	1950s dress by Travilla for Marilyn Monroe
Photo by H. M. Talma	1917 coat with gray squirrel by Patou
Photo by T.A. Etter	Late 1940s Charles James black velvet top with white satin skirt
Photo by T.A. Etter	1981 Galanos.
Photo by Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, Ph.D.	1930s bias-cut wedding gown
Photo by Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, Ph.D.	Late 1940s Charles James with a second top
Photo by H. E. Schmidt III	1948 Bruyère for Hildegarde
Photo by Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, Ph.D.	1870s moire; two 1910 silks
Photo by Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, Ph.D.	1917 Patou coat; 1960s Balenciaga coat, hat, handbag; 1920s Lanvin cape
Photo by H. E. Schmidt III	1980s Nina Ricci lamé with 1950s Dior Venus gown in the background
Photo by Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, Ph.D.	1997 Matthew Terry, at the time a Sophomore in the Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, featured as the one student designer in the exhibition. Bias-cut cotton/linen diagonally draped with all seaming on-grain.