UNCW Fashion Week: Fashion Inspo from Special Collections (part 2)

If you're looking for inspiration for UNCW Fashion Week, check out these images of historical resources from the Center's Special Collections. This post highlights our manuscript and archival collections. Part 1 of this series features inspiration images from the Center's book and periodical collections. 

Want to see any of these resources in person? You can find them in the CSENCAH reading room on the 2nd floor of the library. Contact us for more info!

Original costume designs from MS 181 Hannah Solomon Block Collection

A two-piece Arabian-inspired woman's costume design with glitter trim

 

An Arabian-inspired man's costume design with glitter trim

 

Foundational costume corset worn by actress Linda Darnell in The Walls of Jericho, 1948

Pink 1940s woman's corset laying on a table
From MS 154 M.W. Godwin Linda Darnell Collection

 

WWAY news clips related to the fashion industry in the 1980s

Wilmington Downtown Riverfront Modeling of Gowns from Fashion Designer Tim Cobb, 1983 (more info)

Southeast North Carolina Clothing Retailer Discusses Fall Fashions, 1985 (more info)

 

Fashion icons from the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Photograph Collection, presented courtesy of the LCFHS

Cabinet card of unidentified woman, possibly Annabelle Giles Huske Cotton (1858-1934).
Cabinet card of unidentified woman, possibly Annabelle Giles Huske Cotton (more info).

 

Women in a beauty pageant at the beach
Women in a beauty pageant at the beach (more info)

 

Group of women in the yard of a house
    Group of women in the yard of a house, identified from left to right as: Jane Meares, Catherine Harriss, Frances Green, Miss Carrie Harriss, Jane Williams, and Jean Harriss (more info)

 

Margaret Bridgers and Elovine Burruss at Wrightsville Beach
Margaret Bridgers and Elovine Burruss at Wrightsville Beach (more info)

 

Fannie Green (Sloan), Francis Beers Gault, and Kattie Harlow (Rankin) with drinking glasses.
    Fannie Green (Sloan), Francis Beers Gault, and Kattie Harlow (Rankin) with drinking glasses (more info)
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