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Can Taste Become Institutional Knowledge?

Institutions of One × Fashion, Build room, dossier B03

From RN Collins, selected work

The dossier chapter, the sources behind it, further reading and the collection images, each linked to the original.

The articleCan Taste Become Institutional Knowledge? institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. Interview of Christine Pupillo, Leonard Trattner, and Harry Greenberg of the Patternmaking Department. Fashion Institute of Technology Special Collections and College Archives, 1995-02-27; digitized 2020. archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu
  2. Patternmaking certificate. Fashion Institute of Technology, current. fitnyc.edu
  3. Protection for Fashion Design, Statement of the Register of Copyrights. U.S. Copyright Office, 2006-07-27. copyright.gov
  4. Useful Articles. U.S. Copyright Office, current; accessed 2026-09-05. copyright.gov
  5. Handmade for the 21st century: safeguarding traditional Indian textiles. UNESCO, 2022. unesdoc.unesco.org
  6. Garment Industry Compliance Assistance Toolkit. U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, updated 2025-09-23. dol.gov

Other sources

  1. Oral history. Museum of Modern Art, program current; accessed 2026-09-07. moma.org
  2. Dive into Color / collection-data experiments. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2018. labs.cooperhewitt.org
  3. Dress. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1885; accessed 2026-09-07. metmuseum.org
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  5. Shelter and clothing. Library of Congress, 1913. loc.gov
  6. A system for cutting ladies garments. Library of Congress, 1917. loc.gov
  7. Cooper Hewitt Collection API. Cooper Hewitt, current; accessed 2026-09-07. collection.cooperhewitt.org
  8. Dressmaking. Internet Archive, 1917. archive.org
  9. Pattern making. Internet Archive, 1922. archive.org
  10. Complete course in dressmaking: Draping and Pattern Making. Internet Archive, 1922. archive.org
  11. Drafting trousers for men, boys, women. Internet Archive, 1945. archive.org
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  16. The source notes for dossier B03: every claim, its evidence label and its sources institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  17. The B03 instrument, a working tool for this dossier institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  18. The rights desk: every source in the exhibition and the terms for using it institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app

Images, slide by slide

The cover image
House of Worth, Evening dress, ca. 1882. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.300.635a, b. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
The featured object, "Look closely"
American or European, Dress, ca. 1903. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976.258.13. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 2 in "Look at the material record"
Maison Pingat, Dress, ca. 1885. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.300.628a, b. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record

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