Clothes Lines

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month being September 15th-October 15th, we wish to highlight Isabel Toledo, a Cuban-American designer who we’ve featured a dress from in our exhibit this year. Is...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2021/10/27/hispanic-heritage-month-designer-highlight-2021-isabel-toledo/

Today we are focusing on the color orange, it’s origins, and how it made it’s way into the world of fashion. Orange is not always the most common color on the street, as it is vibrant, bright...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2020/10/29/the-color-orange-and-fashion/

  National Hispanic Heritage month is September 15th through October 15th, but any time is a great time to recognize and commemorate the achievements of Hispanic individuals and creatives. To ce...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2020/10/28/hispanic-heritage-month-designer-highlight-luis-estevez/

We don’t wear hats like we used to in centuries past. Men and women always wore some type of head covering in public until well into the 20th century. Starting in the 1960s, the popularity of w...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2020/04/08/sartorial-sleuthing-the-easter-bonnet/

Let’s get straight to the point: a flapper was everything that a woman (in general) wasn’t in the 1900’s-1910’s. She was frivolous with spending and spent an excessive amount of time danc...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2020/01/10/the-flapper/

We are currently in the middle of the great month of October. So what does this mean? Well, a lot of things. October means the start of pumpkin spice everything, fall colors galore, and stores ar...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2019/10/16/october-buttons/

The Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection here at Ohio State is currently sorting through our own collection of Bonnie Cashin outfits as part of a 2018 National Endowment of Humanities funded...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2019/09/26/cashin-copycats/

Have you ever wondered what you would have worn to an Ohio State football game in 1926? Let’s just say it wasn’t crop tops and leggings. The Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection is curre...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2019/09/13/college-students-what-were-they-wearing/

It’s April. So that means there’s a good chance of rain! In the 1920s and 30s, the raincoats and trench coats weren’t quite the same as we have today. It all started because of World War I....

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2019/04/03/rain-gear-for-april/

Let’s talk hats! It’s spring and we all know what that means. It’s time to bring out the easter bonnets and hats decorated in flowers galore! In the early to mid 1900’s, a hat was part of...

https://u.osu.edu/clotheslines/2019/03/27/hats-hats-and-hats/