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When Does an Aesthetic Become a System?

Institutions of One × Fashion, Build room, dossier B04

From RN Collins, selected work

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

The articleWhen Does an Aesthetic Become a System? institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. Report of New York fashions, spring & summer 1872. Library of Congress, 1872. loc.gov
  2. Fashion, Free to Use and Reuse. Library of Congress, collection current; accessed 2026-09-04. loc.gov
  3. Useful Articles. U.S. Copyright Office, current; accessed 2026-09-05. copyright.gov
  4. Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure §1202.02, Registration of Trade Dress. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, current edition; accessed 2026-09-05. tmep.uspto.gov
  5. 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
  6. Patternmaking certificate. Fashion Institute of Technology, current. fitnyc.edu
  7. Rights and Access, Toni Frissell Collection. Library of Congress, collection guidance current; accessed 2026-09-05. loc.gov
  8. Garment Industry Compliance Assistance Toolkit. U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, updated 2025-09-23. dol.gov
  9. Protection for Fashion Design, Statement of the Register of Copyrights. U.S. Copyright Office, 2006-07-27. copyright.gov

Other sources

  1. Diana Dew's Designs. National Museum of American History, record accessed 2026-09-07. americanhistory.si.edu
  2. Dive into Color / collection-data experiments. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2018. labs.cooperhewitt.org
  3. Vestments and how to make them. Library of Congress, 1914. loc.gov
  4. A system for cutting ladies garments. Library of Congress, 1917. loc.gov
  5. Costume design for a New York production. Library of Congress, 1935-1939. loc.gov
  6. Dressmaking. Internet Archive, 1917. archive.org
  7. Pattern making. Internet Archive, 1922. archive.org
  8. Complete course in dressmaking: Draping and Pattern Making. Internet Archive, 1922. archive.org
  9. The Keystone jacket and dress cutter. Internet Archive, 1895. archive.org
  10. Secrets of Balenciaga’s construction. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2023; accessed 2026-09-07. vam.ac.uk
  11. The source notes for dossier B04: every claim, its evidence label and its sources institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  12. The B04 instrument, a working tool for this dossier institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  13. 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"
Butterick & Co., Report of New York fashions, spring and summer 1872, 1872. Library of Congress, ppmsca.44953. Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated set.Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated setPhoto record

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