Upcoming: In-Person Events
- Fall 2026:
- Sept 10 (Thurs): American Antiquarian Society Suitable: the Surprising History of the Plain Black Suit Worcester, MA
- Sept 12 (Sat): Samuel Slater Experience Book talk & signing. Webster, MA
- Sept 16 (Weds): Charles River Museum Mill Talk: The Secret History of Suits – How Industry Fashioned Modern Menswear. Waltham, MA.
- Nov 2 (Mon): FIT Fashion Culture: Book Talk & Signing. NYC
- Nov 7 (Sat): Colonial Williamsburg Symposium on Historic Dress Well-Suited: the Work of the Tailor 1640-1840: “How to Read a Tailor’s Plate“. Williamsburg, VA
Virtual Events
- Sept 10 (Thurs): American Antiquarian Society Suitable: the Surprising History of the Plain Black Suit Worcester, MA
- Sept 15, 22, 29 (Tues) (1:00-2:00pm ET) 92nd St Y: American Sartorial: Masculinity, Power, and the Rise of the Black Suit
- October 5 (Mon), 7-8pm: USITT MIdwest Region’s “Pieces of the Puzzle”: Translating a design career into writing a book”
- Nov 7 (Sat): Colonial Williamsburg Symposium on Historic Dress Well-Suited: the Work of the Tailor 1640-1840: “How to Read a Tailor’s Plate“. Williamsburg, VA
Classes
- TBA
Past Events
- May 5: Massachusetts Historical Society “Black Dandies & the Birth of American Minstrelsy: Masculine Fashion, Transatlantic Caricature & Racial Performance, 1828–1836” (paper workshop). Boston, MA.
- May 30: 2026 Mount Vernon Symposium: Becoming American. “The Sartorial Revolution: George Washington and the Fashioning of Modern Men.” Mount Vernon, VA.
- June 1: Costume Society of America Annual Symposium. “Costuming the Revolution: When Good Costume Design Means Bad Fashion History.” Charlotte, NC.
- June 5: American Philosophical Society: America’s 1776: Independence and its Enduring Legacies. “Plain Ordinary Men: the Founding Fathers and the Un-Fashioning of America.” Philadelphia, PA.
- June 9: DAR Museum Tuesday Talk (virtual)
- June 13: Historic New England: Dressing for the American Revolution. “Costuming the Revolution.” (livestreamed) Eustis Estate, Milton, MA
- July 13: Harvard Book Store. Book Talk (in conversation with Michelle Finamore). Cambridge, MA
- July 18: Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. “Costuming the Revolution.” Philadelphia, PA.
- July 19: Historic Rock Ford, “Buff & Blue: How George Washington Fashioned the Revolution.” Lancaster, PA.
- July 27: Bookshop Santa Cruz. Book Talk & Signing (in conversation with B. Modern). Santa Cruz, CA.
- August 20: Smithsonian: “A Suitable Style: The Revolutionary History of Men’s Suits“
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