Question: Is there someone in your life, past or present, who you associate with their clothes — like if they changed their outfit you would be confused about who they were?

Sonya Meyer (go.uidaho.edu/3YMfyfp) is a professor in the Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/48uxHS4) and curator of U of I’s Leila Old Historic Costume Collection (go.uidaho.edu/4f8fUma), which reflects the clothing across lower-, middle- and upper-class society in Idaho from around 1850 to the present. Today she will talk about what’s in the collection, how to preserve clothing and give us some examples of what TV shows and movies get right and wrong with their costumes.

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