Below is a list of past and current exhibitions relating to Costume and Textiles. For all current and upcoming exhibitions, click here.
Past and Current Exhibitions
All Dressed Up: Fashions for Children and Their Families
December 21, 2012 - December 1, 2013CandyCoated Wonderland
May 4, 2013 - November 17, 2013Ronaldus Shamask: Form, Fashion, Reflection
October 6, 2012 - March 10, 2013Secret Garden
March 3, 2012 - August 26, 2012Tristin Lowe: Under the Influence
October 22, 2011 - January 29, 2012Tailoring Philadelphia: Tradition and Innovation in Menswear
October 2, 2010 - October 16, 2011The Peacock Male: Exuberance and Extremes in Masculine Dress
January 22, 2011 - September 18, 2011Threaded Adornment: Four Centuries of English Embroidery
July 10, 2010 - July 31, 2011Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion
March 16, 2011 - June 5, 2011Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection
September 4, 2010 - December 5, 2010Inspiring Fashion: Gifts from Designers Honoring Tom Marotta
September 12, 2009 - September 6, 2010An Enduring Motif: The Pomegranate in Textiles
February 21, 2009 - June 20, 2010Shopping in Paris: French Fashion 1850–1925
April 11, 2009 - November 1, 2009Hello! Fashion: Kansai Yamamoto, 1971–1973
May 24, 2008 - August 23, 2009Something to Wear: Fashion in Print 1850-1925
April 11, 2009 - August 15, 2009Quilt Stories: The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and Other Recent Quilt Acquisitions
August 16, 2008 - March 1, 2009Imagining Cathay: 18th- and Early 19th-Century Chinoiserie Textiles and Embroideries from the Collection
December 8, 2007 - December 2008Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
September 16, 2008 - December 14, 2008Linda Day Clark: The Gee's Bend Photographs
September 16, 2008 - December 14, 2008Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan
April 26, 2008 - July 20, 2008Costume and Textiles: Recent Acquisitions from A to Z
November 3, 2007 - April 27, 2008A Passion for Perfection: James Galanos, Gustave Tassell, Ralph Rucci
September 15, 2007 - March 9, 2008The Bizarre and the Beautiful: Silks of the Eighteenth Century
July 1, 2006 - November 11, 2007Fashion's Favorites: From Rococo to Romantic
April 23, 2005 - June 18, 2006Fit for a Princess: Grace Kelly’s Wedding Dress
April 1, 2006 - May 21, 2006Woven for Comfort and Joy: Nineteenth-Century American Coverlets
May 22, 2004 - April 10, 2005Ladies' Choice: American Women's Fashions, 1950–1965
June 6, 2003 - May 16, 2004"Shocking!" The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli
September 28, 2003 - January 4, 2004Toile Tales: Conservation of European Printed Textiles
March 30, 2002 - June 1, 2003Needlework from the Nineteenth Century
May 26, 2001 - March 3, 2002Japanese Noh Costumes from the Collection
May 27, 2000 - May 20, 2001Contemporary Fiber from the Collection
April 4, 2000 - December 3, 2000Steeled for Style: Hoop Skirts of the Civil War Era
May 1, 1999 - May 14, 2000Ecclesiastical Vestments from the 14th through the 18th Century
June 23, 1998 - April 18, 1999Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style
October 21, 1997 - January 4, 1998A Passion for Paisley: Indian and European Shawls from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 3, 1996 - January 19, 1997Ahead of Fashion: Hats of the 20th Century
August 21, 1993 - November 28, 1993Perfect Little Ladies: Fashion Dolls and the Art of Dress in the 1870s
August 24, 1991 - January 26, 1992Fabric and Fashion: A Decade of Acquisitions
February 11, 1990 - March 25, 1990"As Pieces Here to Pieces Join": American Appliqué Quilts, 1800-1900
October 19, 1989 - December 31, 1989Fans from the Collection
August 23, 1988 - September 4, 1988Selections from the Whitman Sampler Collection
February 11, 1984 - April 29, 1984Children's Clothing: 1760-1980
November 8, 1980 - April 5, 1981The Eighties: The Daring Decades
March 8, 1980 - August 3, 1980Delights of Fine Fashion
September 29, 1979 - February 10, 1980Fashions of Embroidery
December 10, 1977 - April 30, 1978La Belle Epoque: 1880-1915
June 4, 1977 - September 30, 1977
