Frick Pittsburgh’s ‘Sporting Fashion’ shows how women dressed to play

Inline skating, 1890s. Photo: Brian Davis. © FIDM Museum. Courtesy American Federation of Arts
Inline skating, 1890s. Photo: Brian Davis. © FIDM Museum. Courtesy American Federation of Arts

Inline skating, 1890s. Photo: Brian Davis. © FIDM Museum. Courtesy American Federation of Arts

PITTSBURGH ─ The Frick Pittsburgh is pleased to be the debut venue for the presentation of Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960, organized by the American Federation of Arts (AFA) and the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles. The first exhibition to explore the evolution of women’s sporting attire in Western fashion during this 160-year period, Sporting Fashion presents 64 fully accessorized ensembles comprised of more than 480 historic objects selected from the exceptional collections of the FIDM Museum. It opened July 3, continues through September 26, and includes garments and accessories from long-established sportswear brands such as Champion, Pendleton, Spalding, and Stetson, in addition to garments and accessories from key fashion brands such as Abercrombie and Fitch, Balenciaga, Chanel, Patou, and Pucci.

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Bronze Age sun pendant to debut at British museum in September

Bronze Age sun pendant, 1000–800BC © The Trustees of the British Museum
Bronze Age sun pendant, 1000–800BC © The Trustees of the British Museum
Bronze Age sun pendant, 1000–800BC © The Trustees of the British Museum

SHREWSBURY, UK – An extraordinary sun pendant is to go on public display for the first time as part of the British Museum’s National Programs. The sun pendant, also known as a bulla, could be one of the most significant pieces of Bronze Age metalwork ever discovered in Britain. The rare and spectacular object will be hosted at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery later this year from September until December as a British Museum Spotlight Loan. The exhibit, dubbed Gathering Light, will be on display at the museum from September 10 until December 12.

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Native American jewelry trove leads Holabird Aug. 5-9 auction

Rainbow Man knifewing bolo by Myra and Homer Vacit, estimated at $1,200-$1,800
Rainbow Man knifewing bolo by Myra and Homer Vacit, estimated at $1,200-$1,800
Rainbow Man knifewing bolo by Myra and Homer Vacit, estimated at $1,200-$1,800

RENO, Nev. – General George Armstrong Custer’s Civil War holster and gun belt, a photo diary of Pancho Villa with three books on the Mexican Revolution, and an 1898 prostitute’s license and photo from Tombstone, Arizona are a few of the more interesting items in Holabird Western Americana Collections’ Sizzling Summer Western Americana Auction, slated for August 5-9. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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