Field Trip to Washington State History Museum in Tacoma

This event is being co-scheduled with a highly sensitive person group.

Let's meet inside the front doors on Pacific Avenue at 11:00. After we have strolled through the exhibit and had our fill of looking at things, we can take ourselves out for lunch somewhere nearby, or not.

Check out details of the exhibit, directions, tickets, etc. here: https://www.washingtonhistory.org/exhibit/gilded-age/

Dressing the Gilded Age features a variety of clothing and accessories, from beautifully restored dresses worn by the wealthy to everyday working-class attire from the Washington State Historical Society’s collection. Photographs, historical advertisements, and catalogs illustrate the rise of consumer culture and the widening socio-economic divide. The exhibition also includes tools and stories of the harsh conditions in the fashion industry that often took advantage of women and immigrant labor.

The exhibition also connects how fashion served as a symbol of identity, status, and political ideology. Figures such as the “Gibson Girl” characterized fashionable, independent, and athletic middle-class women. Women aspired to try new gender-defying activities, particularly sports like mountaineering and basketball. Suffragists of the time advocated not only for the right to vote but also for less restrictive and more practical clothing.

If you respond that you're going, and then something happens that you will not be able to attend after all, please update your attendance on this site so that we don't hang around waiting for you to show up. If traffic happens and you're going to be later than you thought, please say so in the comments. Thanks.

Photo from the History Museum's website.