ADH Conferences & Events

The Association of Dress Historians (ADH) Winter Seminar Series 2022-2023
Join us on the first Friday of each month from November 2022 to March 2023 for a presentation and discussion. Attendance is free to ADH Members and you will receive a sign-up notice in our monthly Thoughts and Threads email.

If you are not a Member and are curious to hear an individual session, tickets are £10 including fees and available on ADH Eventbrite. Your contribution helps to support our online platforms and events.

Seminar Series line up:

Friday 4 November 2022, 18:00-19:00 GMT
Luis Estévez: Fashion, Elegance, and Exoticisation.

With Joshua Simon, Western Michigan University

Synopsis: This research analyses Luis Estévez, a bi-sexual Cuban American fashion designer, and his career, spanning from the 1950s to the 1990s. There is heightened attention to use of exoticising and othering language surrounding Estévez in the media, his candidness, and overall lack of representation in fashion history.

Presenter biography: Joshua D. Simon (he/his) graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University in 2019 and a Master’s degree from Iowa State University in 2022. He is currently working on his Ph.D. at Western Michigan University. He is a dress historian and has researched the Gibson Girl, women’s military uniforms, the style of former First Lady Betty Ford, and queer fashion history.

Friday 2 December 2022, 18:00-19:00 GMT
With Isabella Rosner and Sew What? podcast

Tiny Needleworked Treasures of 17th-Century Schoolgirls

Synopsis: This talk will explore minuscule needleworked objects made by seventeenth-century British schoolgirls, such as tiny purses, bite sized birds, embroidered eggshells, and decorated nutmegs. It expands on a Sew What? podcast episode covering the same subject.

Presenter biography: Isabella Rosner is a final-year Ph.D. student at King’s College London, where she researches Quaker women’s art before 1800. Her project focuses on seventeenth-century London needlework and eighteenth-century Philadelphia wax and shellwork. Isabella also specialises in the study of schoolgirl samplers and early modern stitching in addition to hosting the “Sew What?” podcast about historic needlework and those who stitched it.