I wish there were Oscars for me! unfortunately I’d probably have to make my own out of duct tape and a t-shirt. I just hope lots of Red Hat Society ladies come to this exhibit (in the 26 days it’s open) and tell me how awesome (or RHS terminology equivalent) I am, that’s the MoCoHiSo version of an award: the approbation of elderly women.

That’s amazing! Met quality on a MoCoHiSci budget—you definitely deserve some sort of award. Do they have an “Oscars” of collections management?

alverda:

If I worked at the Met or something, putting up this 1870s traveling gown would have involved getting someone to make me a custom dress form. Instead this dress - which looks pretty nice if I do say so myself - is on a form consisting of:

- 1960s era vintage wire “my double” dress form

- the stand from some other dress form

-t-shirt and duct tape “make your own dress form” shell, thank you etsy and my coworker’s 13 year old daughter

- wire

- at least four kinds of quilt/craft batting/stuffing

- two kinds of tulle

- an old Gap tshirt (mine)

- a thrift-store petticoat

- a slip loaned by my old boss

- acid-free tissue

- mylar (on the floor)

- two kinds of pins

- an old cotton sheet

Shouldn’t I get paid MORE than the people who work at the Met, just based on my ingenuity factor?

Chez Alverda