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Getting dressed in the 19th century was an elaborate affair. While working class women wore practical, easy to maintain clothing, elite and middle class women would have changed their clothing several times a day to suit the time and occasion.
Kenna Liebs, Living History specialists, demonstrates how an upper-middle class, fashionable woman may have dressed in the winter of 1886.
Learn more in "Real Clothes, Real Lives", The New York Historical's groundbreaking exhibition, which examines the everyday clothing of ordinary women, from hard-worn house dresses to psychedelic micro minis and modern suits to fast-food workers’ uniforms.
On view from September 27, 2024 - June 22, 2025.
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Getting dressed in the 19th century was an elaborate affair. While working class women wore practical, easy to maintain clothing, elite and middle class women would have changed their clothing several times a day to suit the time and occasion.
Kenna Liebs, Living History specialists, demonstrates how an upper-middle class, fashionable woman may have dressed in the winter of 1886.
Learn more in "Real Clothes, Real Lives", The New York Historical's groundbreaking exhibition, which examines the everyday clothing of ordinary women, from hard-worn house dresses to psychedelic micro minis and modern suits to fast-food workers’ uniforms.
On view from September 27, 2024 - June 22, 2025.
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![Federal and State Powers // The Citizenship Project [E09]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V1xnB9IQ_Hs/mqdefault.jpg "Federal and State Powers // The Citizenship Project [E09]
The U.S. Constitution divides power between the federal government and states, granting specific national powers and reserving others to states via the 10th Amendment, with federal laws generally overriding state laws.
The New-York Historical Society Citizenship Project offers free civics test preparation classes for green card holders.
https://www.nyhistory.org/citizenship-project
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