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The Texas Frontier Heritage and Cultural Center™
presents:
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Victorian Underpinings
Why did
they wear that?
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Clothing is about a lot more than buttons, corsets, or fabric. It also
involves social class, sexiness, liberation, suffrage, inequality, finances,
business, and survival. Through the use of Victorian clothing, with an
emphasis on ladies’ underpinnings, we will learn the story of a Civil War
era woman. And not just that: by looking at the things women wore then,
we’ll also learn in a fun and entertaining way the origins of many practices
which we still engage in today.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
11:00 AM-12:30 PM in the Village Gallery
Admission: $5 (includes all day admission to the Village and free use of a sound wand for the day)... and FREE if you have a Village membership!
For more information, call: (325) 572-3365
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Today’s presentation will be hosted by Cynthia Loveless Harriman. Ms. Harriman
is the Director of Communication and Education at the Texas Civil War Museum
in Fort Worth, Texas. She has served as Vice President of the Texas Historical
Foundation, founding secretary of the Texas and Southwestern Collectors
Association, and past president of the Texas Association of Museums Trustees.
Currently she is a Senior Fellow for the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation
and is Trustee Emeritus for the Texas Confederate Museum collection.
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Our ongoing Chautauqua Learning Series is based on the Chautauqua movement
which spread throughout the rural United States in the late 19th and early
20th centuries. It provided educational lectures and entertainment for
average Americans before the advent of mass media like radio and television.
The Texas Frontier Heritage and Cultural Center™ is proud to continue the
spirit of that tradition in the unique setting of the Buffalo Gap Historic
Village.
The Grady McWhiney Research Foundation would like to say Thank You to our
honored suporters for helping us make the Chautauqua experience available
to our community: The Dian Graves Owen Foundation, Judd White ~ CBS Insurance
LLP, and Red Steagall.
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