Community: Comment: American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection

great exibition, Brookly is much better than Manhattan!!

I love the dresses I wish I culd wear one!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait untill there are more for me to look at.

So what? Yes, many of the pieces of clothing on display are stunning, but I don't see any sort of real story in the exhibition, I don't really see any realtionship among the various aspects that we are presented with. Why not treat fashion more like a fine art and present viewers with a strong point of view about fashion. Explaining the sue of a specific fabric, or one time period, or even a single designer, while not presenting as much spectacle, would really enable viewers to learn a lot more about cloting, fashion, and how it relates directly to other arts and disciplines. Maybe if fashion exhibits were not just treated like cash cows to draw in vistors, and more as serious, intellectual exhibits we would see this more often.

I agree with the last peron who commented on this exbit, it is very interesting, I was astounded!

Exquisite exhibition! Would have suggested installation of mirrors so that the full back of the garments could have more easily been viewed. It is a tremendous shame that this museum's collection has been sold/given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, insuring that much of it will not be seen again.