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February 16, 2003
The Fashion Museum presented Fashions of the 1940s at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library on Monday, September 23, 2002. The show, which includes a social history commentary and 100 garments from the museum's working collection, was developed to enhance the Library's curriculum for their annual Fall Elderhostel program.
"The Fashion Museum has assembled a working collection of garments from the 1940s and 1950s," says museum director, Jill Crist. "Our mission is to broaden our visitor's knowledge of history through the clothing that was worn. Showing the impact that WWII, rationing of materials, and shortages of goods had on style in the 1940s makes it easy to illustrate how style followed function. The closing of the Paris fashion houses and the emergence of New York as a fashion center is an interesting sidebar to the history of the 1940s."
Fashions of the 1940s has been presented at the Eisenhower, Truman, and Ford Presidential Libraries to sell-out crowds and rave reviews. In addition, The Fabulous 50s was a centerpiece of the Mamie Eisenhower Centennial celebration at the Eisenhower Library.
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