Full article & photos here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/s.....#038;cc=fp
"An exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art examines how American women — and their clothing — have evolved over the years. The show, which closes Sunday, is called "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity," and it features everything from gowns to riding habits to a woolen bathing suit — clothes created between 1890 and 1940 that show the gradual emancipation of the American woman, and her rise as an international symbol of style and beauty."
I'm loving the Jessie Franklin Turner gold lame myself... You?