Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men
Mon 2 Nov, 17:30 · Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street, New York · New York
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About this event
Historian and costume designer Chloe Chapin traces how men's suits turned plain, dark and uniform — and how, in doing so, fashion itself got recast as a frivolous, feminine concern. Two hundred and fifty years of dressing for power, unpacked in ninety minutes at The Museum at FIT, with a book signing afterwards.
Why we picked it
A free museum lecture that explains the single most durable garment in the Western wardrobe.
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