NewsChief.com: Winter Haven DAR chapter displays historic clothes at library
WINTER HAVEN -- This month, a period of history is being shared with Winter Haven. The Ponce de Leon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has taken over a display case at the Winter Haven Public Library. Members of the chapter have filled the case with vintage clothing, antique items and black and white photographs of individuals depicting prominent times in history.
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Display of women's clothing from the early 1900s. Wednesday, February 09, 2011.
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Cindi Mason looks at the detail of one of the beaded purses. Wednesday, February 09, 2011.
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Photos of early 1900's clothing. Wednesday, February 09, 2011.
Paul Crate / News Chief
On loan to the library by Cindi Mason of Grafton, West Virginia, are fashions not seen in present-day society. Included in the exhibit is a 120-year-old a black "mourning" skirt that was traditionally worn during the sorrowful times after the death of a loved one. In today's millennium kitchen, the average chef isn't wearing a white, thin, laced-trimmed apron, but visitors to this display can see two of those aprons once worn by the farming residents of rural West Virginia.
This lighted glass window acts as a visual, educational tool. Visitors to this exhibit will learn how different times were nearly 200 years ago. Most hurried households of today likely don't own an iron, but instead use products like liquid spray wrinkle releasers for their clothes. This display features a solid, black iron once used in combination with its twin that warmed on the pot-bellied, wood-burning stove waiting to be traded out for the other cooled one.
Photographs of women in history are featured as a critical part of this indoor, library landscape, because each of them had an historical issue. They overcame an obstacle.
