Shadows-on-the-Teche

Step into the world of style and self-expression at Fashion Through the Ages, a new temporary exhibition opening at The Shadows. Featuring a remarkable selection of historic garments and accessories from the Weeks family collection, the exhibition explores how fashion evolved across generations and reveals the ways clothing reflected changing tastes, social customs, and daily […]

What can a piece of clothing tell us about the people who wore it? Join Sarah Duggan from the Historic New Orleans Collection's Decorative Arts of the Gulf Coast project as she explores the rich stories woven into the Shadows-on-the-Teche's textile archive. Drawing on the collection's extensive holdings of nineteenth-century garments, Sarah will reveal how […]