150 Years of ONU Fashion

During Ohio Northern University’s 12 months-prolonged sesquicentennial celebration, 150 yrs of background has appear alive. The documentary film “Heart of an Best,” which chronicles ONU’s background given that its founding, is perhaps the most complete case in point, but reveals and shows throughout campus have correctly brought the earlier into the present for the latest technology to take pleasure in.

This month noticed the launch of the video collection “150 Yrs of ONU Trend,” yet a further way in which ONU is creating its heritage pleasurable and partaking for today’s pupils. Modeled immediately after the viral online video “100 Years of Fashion” by Method in 2015, the online video functions recent ONU students dressed in the preferred variations of the decades starting with the 1870s.

To outfit the pupils in period-right clothes, the creation staff identified as on the ONU Costume Store and its deep closet of classic seems to be.

“A ton of what we used we pulled from inventory that was featured in earlier exhibits,” claims Ameera Ansari, costume store manager and resident designer. “Other parts have been just classic parts that we never definitely use for reveals, but that we continue to keep for reference.”

Ansari states the costume shop has additional than 1,000 pieces. The oldest classic piece of apparel that seems in the online video are a pair of men’s riding pants that date back again to the 1930s. Lots of of the oldest looking outfits are in fact costumes from theatre productions like “Sunday in the Park with George” and “Spring Awakening.”

“A great deal of our vintage garments are donations from estates,” suggests Ansari. “People locate these beautiful parts of clothes and want them to be preserved. We not often use these items in exhibits, but they are invaluable for reference or to use as a sample for a new costume.”