Join us as we journey through the styles of 1912, the WWI era, and the 1920s.  Fashion Historian Ren Antonowicz will look at how war, the Jazz Age, Prohibition, and women’s newly-earned right to vote affected style and dress in these periods. Her talk will also discuss the impact of trends in fashion on women of different social classes.

Karen (Ren) Antonowicz received her Master’s Degree in Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, with a concentration in Historic Costume & Textiles, from the University of RI. She then taught fashion history and related courses full time at the college level for 13 years.  Ren and her husband, Mike, also owned and operated Nostalgia Antiques & Collectibles in Providence, RI, for five years.

Ren continues to follow her passion for historic costume by conducting fashion history  presentations and fashion workshops at libraries, senior centers, schools, historical societies, and historic homes. She and Mike now make their home in Vermont.

Free and open to the public.  Sponsored by the Holyoke History Room.