This is a follow-up to last year's successful
MetFashion 2019, and will follow a similar theme optimized for a remote online experience.
We will be partially coordinating with the international
Wiki Loves Fashion campaign.
Watch and join the livestream! The Metropolitan Museum of Art event on Saturday Sep 26 will host a tutorial and question-and-answer session live on YouTube and other social media platforms.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Training with curator talk and discussion
Chat about improving articles! Support will be provided to help guide new editors in this area at
Wikimedia Fashion Chat for the duration of the campaign.
Bustle - padded undergarment used to add fullness, needs improvement, citations needed
First Ladies Collection at the Smithsonian - needs Wikidata and Wikipedia content
Fashion glossary
Many basic fashion glossary terms are underdeveloped or missing on Wikipedia.
Expand this table to see some of the major fashion topics. Each topic should ideally include breadth of coverage across history and cultures, gender and social status, and you can help bring Wikipedia closer to this ideal. The goal is for every entry to be as encyclopedic and inclusive as possible, including contemporary work. An example of a relatively well-developed article is
mantua (clothing).
The
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the fashion industry, as well as inspiring some creativity in
face masks, has included some revivals of historical forms such as the
fashion of Marie Antoinette and her dressmaker
Rose Bertin in
Cottagecore, and also the
walking dress. Fashion is deeply historical and cross-disciplinary, and Wikipedia can help to highlight some of those connections. Sara Clugage (
Dilettante Army) offered a net of connections on this that include the Wikimedia Commons image of Elizabeth Vigée le Brun's portrait of Marie Antoinette in her purpose-made country clothes for the Petit Trianon, known as the chemise à la reine. As cottagecore often moves the romanticized countryside fantasy to the American West, the "open frontier" fantasy opens up connections to concurrent Indigenous fashions that are often underrepresented on Wikipedia, such as Ojibwe, Navajo, or Dene modes of dress. We can focus on drawing links between existing content on Wikipedia and the gaps that clearly exist around non-white designers, fashions, techniques, and textiles.
You can search free images on Wikimedia Commons from the Met collection here, and there are some suggestions of images and reference sources to add (don't upload new images from the collection, just search for the version on Wikimedia Commons, and put them on relevant articles using the guideline
Help:Pictures):
Nickgray (
talk) 17:53, 24 September 2020 (UTC) -- I love the Met, and I'm trying to learn more about Wikipedia! Looking forward to stopping in to say Hello on the Zoom call if I can today.reply