• About Time: Fashion and Duration

    About Time: Fashion and Duration

    The PatternVault blog turns nine today! It’s been a pleasure writing about vintage fashion for you, for almost a decade. Speaking of the passage of time, this year’s major Costume Institute show, About Time: Fashion and Duration, also considers questions of style and temporality. Planned to mark the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, the…

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  • How Do You Spell Pride?
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    How Do You Spell Pride?

    This Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march, in New York City, on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall. Despite being headquartered in New York, the big pattern companies have an uneven record of celebrating Pride — at least visibly, on social media. In past years, I’ve tweeted about this silence. A search…

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Sarah Sheehan has published articles on couture patterns in DRESS and Selvedge. She launched the PatternVault blog in 2011 with a series on Givenchy sewing patterns by Alexander McQueen. This blog explores the intersections between high fashion and DIY culture. Read full bio.