Tag: fashion_collection

Hey, We Made the Front Page!

One of the on-going projects at Billington Library is the Fashion Collection’s digitization.  It’s a bear of a project, but it is getting it’s exposure on JCCC’s main Web site.  The featured article links to this page.  Here’s an excerpt:

JCCC is the safe haven for chic and culture as the repository of the Kansas City Regional Fashion Group International collection containing more than 1,500 pieces of apparel: 500 gloves, scarves and undergarments; 275 hats; and 150 pairs of shoes dating from the 1850s to the 1990s.

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The collection has been catalogued and organized by designer and/or decade and is now housed at the college’s site at Bishop Miege North. Electronic images of the collection will eventually be available through the Billington Library.

That’s us! Big thanks to Joan McCrillis for helping the library get this project underway and Bret Gustafson for being the best photographer on the planet, ever.

Behind the Scenes: Inching Closer

So this process has been pretty crazy.  We’ve got a batch of ten items photographed and cataloged, and now we have to meet with a fashion expert and the photographer to make sure we’re doing it right.  After that we’ll be ready to roll on forward.

Until then, here’s a link to the test collection: http://bit.ly/Oyd8p. We’ll be manipulating this, cleaning it up, then adding to it at a fairly rapid pace.

2490 garments to go… eesh.