Barbarians in Greek Comedy

Timothy Long

Southern Illinois University Press

Among the most spectacular and significant holdings of the Costume Collection of the Chicago History Museum are items from the House of Dior. Indeed, these pieces comprise one of the most important collections of Dior fashion in America. Dior s revolutionary statements about femininity and fashion that seized America over 60 years ago helped to shape cultural and social trends in the decades that followed.

Dior - The New Look

Chicago History Museum

<p>This woman of achievement conjures visions of grandeur. Bertha Honoré Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her name and her image were known around the world. Supported by immense wealth, she championed women s achievements and her fledgling city, and ascended to international celebrity. This richly-illustrated catalogue tells her story as one of the most significant figures in Chicago history.</p>

Bertha Honore Palmer

The vast costume collection of the Chicago History Museum includes a stunning array of wedding attire that reveals 170 years of fashion favored by Chicago couples. Marshall Field & Co. made wedding history by being the first store to offer a gift registry and providing an array of products and staff to cater to the bride s every need. Today, hoop skirts, sinewy fishtails, long trains, and leg-o-mutton sleeves can be seen on the aisle, but each style echoes decades past.

I Do! Chicago Ties the Knot

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Barbarians in Greek Comedy

Dior - The New Look

Bertha Honore Palmer

I Do! Chicago Ties the Knot