Dress & Drinks: DAR | Conversations on Dress| Costume Society of America

Join us as we speak with Alden O’Brien of the DAR Museum in Washington, DC. O’Brien received her BA in Art History from Barnard College and her MA in Museum Studies in Costume & Textiles from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has been at the DAR Museum since 1990, and has curated numerous exhibits on costume, toys, and quilts. Her most recent costume exhibition was “An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution.” Her next exhibition titled “Sewn in America: Making, Meaning, and Memory,” opens in March 2024 and will combine clothing, quilts, needlework, and household textiles to examine the role of sewing in American women’s lives up to the present day. She has been a CSA member since the mid-1980s. Did you enjoy this video? Please consider supporting our mission and our free webinar series by visiting our website to make a contribution: www.costumesocietyamerica.com. Our cocktail for the evening: Autumn gin rickey Purportedly the most popular drink of Washington, DC - and invented around the same time the DAR was founded - the Gin Rickey receives an autumnal update in this recipe to welcome a new season! Ingredients: 2 lime wheels 1 1/2 ounces bourbon (such as Larceny) 1 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed 1/2 ounce Grade B maple syrup Club soda, chilled, to top. Fill a highball glass with ice and add the lime wheels. Add the maple syrup, lime juice, and bourbon, and then top with club soda. Stir to combine! Non-alcoholic version: Maple apple cid