Caroline Elenowitz-Hess

@elenowitzhess
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Fashion historian. PhD student at Bard Graduate Center. Research Assistant at the Met. Interests include cat burglars, French fashion, John Singer Sargent, flowers, lingerie, & modernism.
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Show threadCaroline Elenowitz-HessDec 10, 2022
Important update-- I decided on the tea strainer. Once a tea strainer collector, always a tea strainer collector. I can't wait to turn this ugly duckling into a swan with a good polish!
Caroline Elenowitz-HessDec 7, 2022

I'm excited to say that I have just started as a Research Assistant in the American Wing at the Met, working on an exhibition about Sargent.

She and I are about to get to know each other very, very well.

Caroline Elenowitz-HessNov 18, 2022

Spending my Thursday night thinking about these late-16th/ early-17th century gloves from The Glove Collection Trust: https://theglovecollection.uk/gloves/gct-23342/

Phoenixes! Pears! Pansies! Weird little mask faces! They really have it all.

#dresshistory #dresshistory #earlymodern

GCT 23342 - The Glove Collection Trust

A pair of menswear zig-zag tabbed gauntlet gloves, in dyed buff-coloured leather with applied panels of silk embroidered in a design of fruit and flower-heads, a Phoenix rising from the Ashes, and a masked face worked in coloured silks and metal threads, edged with long metal thread fringing.

The Glove Collection Trust
Caroline Elenowitz-HessNov 7, 2022
For my new Mastodon folks, I'm giving a talk for the New York Adventure Club about the history of the bra *tonight*! If you can't make it live, you can stream it anytime for a week afterwards. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/history-of-the-bra-from-push-ups-to-protest-webinar-registration-432850295887?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
#fashionhistory #fashion #lingerie
Caroline Elenowitz-HessNov 6, 2022
I also have two (2) perfect cats of which this is the bigger and sillier, Arthur Pendragon