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UNL women's history displayed through authentic clothing, exhibits - Daily Nebraskan

UNL women's history displayed through authentic clothing, exhibits - Daily Nebraskan
Women's clothing store opening May 1 on Canton's Main Street - WatertownDailyTimes.com
Police: Ohio women shoplifted clothes at Pittsburgh Mills, sold them on Facebook - Tribune-Review

Posted: 18 Apr 2019 10:15 PM PDT

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been a coeducational university since its establishment in 1869. This year, with the university celebrating its 150th anniversary, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery chose to honor UNL alumnas by presenting "What We Wore: Dressing Well at UNL."

This exhibition displays women's clothing from UNL's Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design's historic costume and textiles collection. The collection will look at women's fashion choices in the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. The exhibition will be available at the Hillestad Gallery until May 10.

Mary Alice Casto, an assistant professor in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design and the curator of this exhibition, said she wanted to share through clothing what a woman's experience in college during this time period was like.

"College for women in the late 19th, early 20th century really moved from being very unusual to something that became very desirable, aspirational," she said. "There was a certain status attached to attending university, and to women, it was very important because they were still in the minority."

The exhibition is divided into different categories of women's clothing, such as everyday attire, which consisted of a white short waist blouse with a long skirt, social gathering attire of loose dresses that are easy to dance in, athletic uniforms and white graduation dresses.

The exhibition is also an opportunity to learn about the history of UNL alumnas. For example, Casto said she was surprised to learn about the history of women's basketball at the university. In the exhibition, the silky shorts and shirt athletic uniform is on display beside a label with a photo of a Husker women's basketball team in the early 20th century.

"The women's basketball team in the 20th century was very good," she said. "In 1908, the Board of Regents decided it wasn't safe to have women traveling around the countryside competing at basketball, so the women's competitive varsity sport was basically dissolved until Title IX in 1972."

Casto said that during the early 20th century, there was still the question of what a woman's role in college should be and in an attempt to answer that question, home economics and domestic science departments began to emerge. According to Casto, this resolved some tensions in society about women attending college, but it didn't necessarily move women in the right direction.

WWW2 — Garments dating from the 1870s through the 1950s on display at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on Wednesday, March 10, 2019, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Photo by Gentri Shopp

"It did get women in the door, and it did give them opportunities they didn't have before," she said. "But it was almost like one step forward but maybe two steps back."

The idea for this exhibition began a year ago, and preparations for the exhibition started near the end of the fall 2018 semester. Casto said over 200 hours of work have been put into this exhibition, resulting in something she is proud of.

"The exhibition evolved into a more overarching look at women's experiences," she said. "And I'm really proud of it because often in women's history, we focus on these famous people and we miss the ordinary, everyday people that make up the spaces of history."

According to Michael James, the department chair of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, the exhibition gives people the opportunity to feel as if they were immersed in the time period, with 1940s swing music played in the background and a slideshow of historic photos from the university's archives displayed on the walls.

"For me, the most striking thing about the show is how well the historic photographs in the libraries match the garments in the show," he said. "They really kind of bring you back to the time in a very vivid way."

Today's society works hard to try and put themselves into other people's shoes, Casto said, and try to imagine what it would be like to be someone from a completely different background or time period. This exhibition gives people a glimpse into what life in college was like decades ago.

"You have to be careful about making assumptions, even in history, what it was like for other people," she said. "This gives us the opportunity to value diversity in a slightly different way."

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Women's clothing store opening May 1 on Canton's Main Street - WatertownDailyTimes.com

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 09:30 PM PDT

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CANTON — A former downtown restaurant is being converted into a women's clothing store that will offer contemporary-style apparel, shoes, bathing suits and more in a variety of sizes, including plus sizes.

Shandelle Clifford, a village resident, is scheduled to hold a grand opening at 10 a.m. May 1 at her new store, Shandelle & Co. Customers that day will receive a free PopSocket cell phone grip inscribed with the business logo.

The shop is in the former Hot Tamale Restaurant, 67 Main St., which closed in December. Since then, the kitchen equipment was removed.

Mrs. Clifford also runs a successful customized T-shirt business and online make-up business.

The 30-year-old said she decided to open a storefront because she's running out of space in the home she shares with her husband, Randy, and their three children.

"I've outgrown my house," she said, noting that she signed a three-year lease with the building's owner, Sarah Stretton, Lake Placid.

Mrs. Clifford said her shop will offer a wide variety of dresses, skirts, tops, bathing suits and shorts. The styles are geared to women in the 20- to 40-year age range, with some styles for late teens and juniors. Two dressing rooms have been installed.

"I'll have a variety of brands because I'm working with a wholesale company that works with 5,000 vendors. I can pretty much pick from all those vendors," she said.

She will run the T-shirt business in the back portion of the building.

Having a store will allow area women the chance to try on and purchase clothes immediately, which is helpful if they need an outfit in a hurry, Mrs. Clifford said.

She and her husband have been busy getting the building ready, including adding dressing rooms and shelving. Ceiling tiles and lights have been replaced and walls were repainted.

The store will be staffed by two full-time employees, including Amanda Donnelly, Lisbon, and three-part-time employees.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.

Police: Ohio women shoplifted clothes at Pittsburgh Mills, sold them on Facebook - Tribune-Review

Posted: 18 Apr 2019 12:19 PM PDT

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