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Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress

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A wide—ranging account of the world of displaying dress and costume told through the unique vantage of conservators.

This volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process. Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re—creation, and display, Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress examines the ways in which these seemingly static exhibitions of “costume”...