993 - North Shorea News CEEEy START RIT Seminar chronicles changes in women’s clothing through time THOSE WHO enjoy fashion won'l want to miss the historical fashion show presented at In Stitches, Western Canada’s largest sewing, needlework; and crafts conference, “One Hundred Years of the Fashionable Woman,’’ Thursday, Sept. 23 and Friday, Sept. 24 at Vancouver's Robson Square Conference Cenize, is narrated by Ivan Sayers, Vancouver's foremost authority on fashion through the ages. : Using pieces from his extensive private collection, Sayers traces the. evolution. of women from fashion-dependent objects of beauty into free-spirited, indepen- dent individuals of the ’90s. “You can see a parallel between women’s physical emancipation from restrictive clothing and their sociopolitical emanciaption,”’ BRIDES-TO-B | “4 yOu will want to attend the ‘ look what WELCOME WAGON has In store for you ... e Demonstrations © Excitin Admission is FREE, but Sayers explains. ‘‘Through the last half of the 19th century, women practised ‘beauty by impairment.’ By physically restricting herself, a woman demonstrated that she was taken care of. 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