With Kiki Smith

Smith College Professor of Theatre Kiki Smith will discuss her work developing, preserving, and teaching with the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection, which includes over 4,000 items from the early 1800s to the present. Smith’s recent book, Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, provides insights into women’s lives and their evolving roles at home and in the workplace. Introduction by fashion historian Lynne Zacek Bassett.​​

A book signing & reception will follow the talk. Copies of Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore will be available for sale

Presented by the Friends of the Smith College Libraries Oculus Society, in partnership with Historic Northampton.