Before entering conservation training, I majored in English and art history and worked as a freelance writer who wrote primarily about the Internet and fashion. This background lends itself well to strong research skills– I like crate-digging and archive-trawling. My writing on fashion has been published in a variety of publications, including 032c, Vulture, and SSENSE. Links can be found on my personal homepage.
Research, contextualization, and pattern identification of a black dress from 1927:
One piece, on the care and keeping of my collection of archival Helmut Lang, is embedded here:
A condition report and associated research for an unusual rubberized jacket:
A structural analysis of an eighteenth-century meandering silk: