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Dressing a Historic Landmark
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Dan Carino
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Apr 19, 2008
Dressing a Historic Landmark
John Rabe visits the Gamble House by Greene and Greene in Pasadena, where they're showing how people dressed when the house was built 100 years ago.
Straw and velvet hat, goggles and a silk duster over a cotton blouse and linen skirt. This is what the wise and fashionable woman would wear for a drive, circa 1911. The mannequin, dressed from the FIDM Museum Collection, has been Photoshopped(R) into an archival photo of the Gamble House, Pasadena.
Straw and velvet hat, goggles and a silk duster over a cotton blouse and linen skirt. This is what the wise and fashionable woman would wear for a drive, circa 1911. The mannequin, dressed from the FIDM Museum Collection, has been Photoshopped(R) into an archival photo of the Gamble House, Pasadena.
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FIDM and Gamble House
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John Rabe visits the Gamble House by Greene and Greene in Pasadena, where they're showing how people dressed when the house was built 100 years ago.

John Rabe visits the Gamble House by Greene and Greene in Pasadena, where they're showing how people dressed when the house was built 100 years ago.