Choosing Design: Three Generations of Creative Entrepreneurs brings together long-time New Canaan resident, Jackie Shapiro, and her daughter, Dolly Meckler, for a festive luncheon at the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society.
Continue readingSomething Old and Borrowed?: 18th-Century Silk Wedding Dresses in New England
On September 28, 2022 at 7 pm, the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society welcomes David E. Lazaro, Curator of Textiles at Historic Deerfield, to discuss “Something Old and Borrowed?: 18th-Century Silk Wedding Dresses in New England.”
Continue readingI Do: The History of Wedding Fashion and Tradition
This exhibition features for the first-time wedding dresses from 1820-1990 drawn from the Museum’s extensive clothing and textile collection.
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