Participation in Exhibition Abroad

The Kent State University Museum goes to the Olympics
lending eleven garments for the exhibition:

PTYCHOSEIS
Drapery from Ancient Greek Dress to 21st Century Fashion

Benaki Museum (new building on 138 Pireos Street), Athens, Greece.
June 22 to October 17, 2004.


  

 

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Some of the garments lent by the Kent State University Museum:

 

Evening Dress, spring 1998
Designed by Calvin Klein, U.S.A.
Kent State University Museum
Gift of Beth E. Dincuff
KSUM 2000.12.1

 

Men's Tunic, boubou, 1900-1980
Nigeria
Kent State University Museum Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.1.887a.

 

Evening Dress, 1875-1900
Attributed to Liberty of London, U.K.
Kent State University Museum
Gift of Robert and Melody Liberatore
KSUM 1987.55.1ab.

 

Evening Dress, 1983
Designed by George Stavropoulos
Kent State University Museum
Gift of George Stavropoulos
KSUM 1991.4.64

 

Delphos gowns, 1907-1949
Designed by Mariano Fortuny, Italy
Kent State University Museum
Left: Gift of Mrs. Susan G. Rossbach
KSUM 1987.5.1ab
Right: Gift of Mrs. Miriam Whitney Coletti
KSUM 1986.9.11ab.

Evening Dress, 1980s
Designed by Holly Harp, U.S.A.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1988.6.6.

 

Day Dress, 1946-1948
U.S.A.
Kent State University Museum
Gift of Irene Mudrak
KSUM 1996.32.2.


Evening Dress, 1949
Designed by Charles James, U.S.A.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection.
From the wardrobe of Mrs. Sloan Simpson
KSUM 1983.1.413

 

Cocktail dress, 1960-1965
Designed by Sybil Connolly, Ireland
Kent State University Museum
Gift of Mrs. Joseph Kelly Vodrey
KSUM
1989.10.1.

 

 


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