The History of Fashion and Dress
Free Online Class
for Self Directed Study
authored by, Tara Maginnis, Ph.D.

Week #15: 
Final Projects

Step 1:

Post a final version of your Vintage Clothing Report to your web page , and sent Tara an email telling her you have done so, and where it is so she can add your completed web page to the student web site links As a reminder, the report should contain the following:

  1. A brief description of the garment.
  2. Photos of the garment.
  3. An estimated "date" of the garment, with a description of the reasons/sources you used to arrive at this date.
  4. An estimated "story" of the garment, describing when it was probably worn (parties, work, wedding?), what price range it represents (custom tailored, expensive, home-made, mass produced cheaply?), and any other important information you have been able to deduce.
  5. A list of sources of information: This may include family stories, hyperlinks, or bibliography.

Remember also that you can get Extra Credit if you include any of the following (You can lift your grade in this class by a full letter if you are an over-achiever and include all these):  

  1. Pattern
  2. Detail drawings
  3. Long, detailed, web page on the social/historical/fashion background of the era of the garment.
Step 2:

All students: Send an e-mail to Tara with suggestions for improvement of this course.

 This Concludes the final Lesson

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Some Extra Credit Project Pages from the "Regular" class held at UAF's Campus in 1999:

1890sjacketfront.JPG (17230 bytes) 1891 Woman's Wool Jacket

70982_18.jpg (18689 bytes) Men's Hard Collars

70980_13.jpg (23766 bytes) PERIOD:  1940's

title.jpg (74315 bytes) Vintage Bras

Theatre UAF Costume History Collection

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