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A new fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art invites viewer comment.  In the exhibition notes they explain that fashion reflects the current culture, and is so much a part of people’s immediate experience, that they are more likely to feel comfortable rendering an opinion.  If the rash of fashion based reality shows is any indication, I think the Met is spot-on. 

I haven’t seen the exhibit yet , but their WordPress-driven blog already has some great comments.  Its really interesting to see how people react to this type of exhibit.  Many comments are immediate impressions of the fashions themselves — I’d wear that — to questions seeking some context — where has that been for the last 200 years.  The blog design itself is very nice — I especially like the photo listings for the current and upcoming posts.  It would be nice to have a better way to view the works.  They do offer some close up photos, but its a little clumsy.  It would be great to have a little flash movie where you could rotate the work and zoom in.  I guess we’ll just have to pay them a visit this weekend!

Opinions Wanted (Really) - New York Times

“Blog.mode” invites the audience to give its opinion on 65 costumes recently acquired by the institute, using computers next to the displays, or online at www.metmuseum.org, through April 13, when the show closes.

blog.mode: addressing fashion | Incroyable | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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