Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection at OSU

Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection at OSU The HCTAC is housed in Milam Hall in the College of Business at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

The College of Business - Oregon State University's HCTAC was honored to display dress objects at The Pacific Islander A...
05/11/2026

The College of Business - Oregon State University's HCTAC was honored to display dress objects at The Pacific Islander Association's 2026 Pasifika Fest, an annual campus event that celebrates and honors love and community!

"Death Becomes Her: Women’s Mourning Dress, 1860 to 1919," a collaboration between Corvallis Museum and OSU's COB Histor...
04/29/2026

"Death Becomes Her: Women’s Mourning Dress, 1860 to 1919," a collaboration between Corvallis Museum and OSU's COB Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection, opens June 6 through September 20, 2026 in the Fred & Mary Brauti Gallery at the Corvallis Museum! This exhibition explores Victorian and Edwardian-era mourning rituals. On view are historic dress objects and hair art that reveal how color, texture, and ornament signaled both loss and social expectation.

Only one more week to stop by Milam Hall and see DSGN 333: History of Contemporary Fashion student displays on fashion-r...
04/28/2026

Only one more week to stop by Milam Hall and see DSGN 333: History of Contemporary Fashion student displays on fashion-related topics from 1947 to 1999! Displays feature dress objects from the College of Business - Oregon State University's Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection.

Tayler Carney, August Harrington, and Reiko Quitevis research, curated, and mounted Bell Rings and Bobby Socks: Fashion ...
03/12/2026

Tayler Carney, August Harrington, and Reiko Quitevis research, curated, and mounted Bell Rings and Bobby Socks: Fashion in Post War Schools, 1947 to 1950 now on display in Milam Hall. Their display features dress objects from the College of Business - Oregon State University HCTAC and archival images from OSU’s Special Collections & Archives. Bell Rings and Bobby Socks is one of five displays that features the work of COBs Design students on exhibit in Milam Hall through April!

Only 1 more week to see DSGN 333: History of Contemporary Fashion's display cases for groups 1 through 5. These Milam Ha...
02/20/2026

Only 1 more week to see DSGN 333: History of Contemporary Fashion's display cases for groups 1 through 5. These Milam Hall displays feature dress objects from the College of Business - Oregon State University's Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection.

Eleganza Stravaganza: A Night at the Opera, 1900 to 1910 curated by apparel design senior, Jake Wright is now on display...
12/20/2025

Eleganza Stravaganza: A Night at the Opera, 1900 to 1910 curated by apparel design senior, Jake Wright is now on display on the 4th floor of Austin Hall. The display features dress objects from the College of Business - Oregon State University's Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection.

New display alert! Children’s Early 20th Century Winter Hats is on display on the 2nd floor of Milam Hall. Designed and ...
11/27/2025

New display alert! Children’s Early 20th Century Winter Hats is on display on the 2nd floor of Milam Hall. Designed and curated by the HCTAC’s student worker, apparel design senior, Jake Wright!

"A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wearable art evening gowns designed by Nancy Bryant, 1990s and 2000s" is now on display on t...
08/19/2025

"A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wearable art evening gowns designed by Nancy Bryant, 1990s and 2000s" is now on display on the 2nd floor of Milam Hall. Serving as a backdrop to Bryant’s designs are paintings by Romantic-era artists. Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and flourished until the mid-19th century. It emphasized emotion, imagination, and individualism, often in contrast to the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason and order. A Midsummer Night’s Dream served as inspiration for several artists from the Romantic-era due to its themes of love, enchantment, and the blurring of reality and dreams. The play's fantastical elements, particularly the fairy world, have resonated with artists seeking to explore themes of love, imagination, and the power of the subconscious. Images: Hermia and Helena by Washington Allston, 1818; “Waterfall Garden,” designed by Nancy Bryant, completed in 2000.

“She’s the World, 1968 – 1979” curated by OSU apparel design student, Jake Wright is now on display at the Corvallis Mus...
06/25/2025

“She’s the World, 1968 – 1979” curated by OSU apparel design student, Jake Wright is now on display at the Corvallis Museum in downtown Corvallis, Oregon.

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