Elizebeth Heckley, about 1861. Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives.

Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion Exhibit Opens at PEM Nov. 21

The Salem museum opens an innovative new exhibit on American women who revolutionized the fashion industry and, in turn, women’s history itself.

Natalie GaleNovember 20, 2020

Tomorrow, Saturday, November 21, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem opens a new exhibit, Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion. The exhibit chronicles two and a half centuries of female designers pushing boundaries, challenging norms, and carving out opportunities. On view through March 14, the exhibit accounts not just the changing styles of women’s clothing over the decades, but also how those changes went hand in hand with historic events and shifting cultural norms. When the world changes, so do clothes—and sometimes when clothes change, so does the world. The exhibit also shines a spotlight on oft-overlooked female desi

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Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion Exhibit Opens at PEM Nov. 21

The Salem museum opens an innovative new exhibit on American women who revolutionized the fashion industry and, in turn, women’s history itself.

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