Underwear is Topic for Leisure Hour Club
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 10/08/2015 - 2:33pm
Event Date:
October 21, 2015 - 6:30pm On Wednesday, October 21, Jan Loverin, who has served as curator of the Nevada State Museum’s Marjorie Russel Clothing and Textile Center for over 30 years, will share her extensive expertise on the ‘intimate’ history of men’s and women’s underwear with the Leisure Hour Club. This event will be a perfect way to begin Nevada Day celebrations and will provide an entertaining look at a topic that is ‘never discussed in public.’
As curator for the Clothing and Textile Center, Ms. Loverin assists the public in identifying and dating historic costumes, as well as with preservation and display problems and techniques. She and the staff also provide historic costume programming on various aspects of fashion history.
The Nevada State Museum’s separate textile facility is dedicated to storing and preserving historic costume and textile collections. The Center houses the Marilyn J. Horn fashion library and large collection area, which includes nineteenth, twentieth century and twenty first century garments, quilts, flags, and accessories. The collections are used in exhibitions at the Nevada State Museum, the Nevada Historical Society and the Nevada State Railroad Museum.
The collection is comprehensive, focusing on Nevada and the Great Basin. Significant artifacts include Nevada’s First Ladies Inaugural Ball gowns, entertainment costumes, wedding attire, every day and formal wear, military, religious, railroad and fraternal garments.
The Center is named after Marjorie Ann Guild Russell, a former Nevada First Lady and longtime Nevada State Museum Board of Trustee member. The Marilyn J. Horn Library is named after University of Nevada-Reno professor Dr. Marilyn Horn Bohmont, whose work and endowment provided digital cataloguing for our collections.
The Center is open to the public for research, programs and tours by appointment only.
If you would like to attend this Oct. 21 event, please call Dorothy Link at (775) 885-2542 no later than Thursday, October 15 to make your reservation. The meeting is preceded by a buffet dinner at 6:30 in the Carson Nugget Capitol Ballroom. Reservations are required.
The Leisure Hour Club, established in September of 1896, is Carson City’s oldest continuously operating social organization. Now beginning the celebration of its 119th year, the organization continues to focus on its goal of promoting knowledge on important issues, science, music and literature.
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