FashionSpeak Fridays: Westernwear

The National Arts Club

January 6 at 7 p.m.

15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY 10003

Sonya Abrego, author of Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and Culture, will explore westernwear’s place in midcentury America. In the years that followed World War II, the United States experienced a booming economy and confidence in technologies for the future. So why, at this forward-thinking time, were so many Americans wearing fashions that evoked the Old West? Abrego is a New York City-based design historian specializing in 20th-century American fashion. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the interconnections between fashion, popular culture, and design and has published in scholarly and popular venues, including Fashion Theory. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and is a curatorial fellow at the Center for Craft which will be hosting her exhibition, Crafting Denim. 

The event is free and open to the public! For more information and to register please click here.

Books will be available for purchase. Westernwear fashion is highly encouraged.