![]() Its hard to fully quantify the impact of being able to model ourselves after images of intelligent women changing the world - but we know that we wouldnt be where we are without these role models, as well as the many other women encouraging us along the way.Īs such, it seemed like a good day to feature the local grapes grown by one of our dear friends and role models (Mimi White, former Portsmouth Poet Laureate). Happy Saturday, everyone! Today, wed like to take a moment and thank all of the strong, fearless women role models that weve had throughout the years. Elizabeth Cleland, Curator, and Elyse Nelson, Assistant Curator Classically feminine in its delicate fabric and ornate patterns, her lace collars were a high-fashion semaphore that expressed her position of power as the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Explicitly identifying herself as a woman, she feminized the standard robe, made for men, with a collection of collars. The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was known to jazz up her judicial robes with striking neckwear. This finely-worked collar, in which nestle pairs of cranes and trumpeting horsemen, is attributed to women working in Burano, whose needle-lace school, established in the 1870s, was pivotal to the revival of the lace industry which had flourished in Renaissance and Baroque Venice. Historically, lace collars were prized adornments of both male and female dress but by the late nineteenth century, when this lovely example was crafted, they were uncompromisingly feminine. ![]()
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