Tales from the Archives: Mentioning Unmentionables with Kim Parr
31 West 10th Street
Holland, MI 49423 (616) 796-3329
https://hollandmuseum.org/event/mentioning-unmentionables/?event_date=2024-05-16
Contact: Sarah Grant Joriman
Email: hollandmuseum@hollandmuseum.org
Phone: (616) 796-3329
Historian Kim Parr will review interesting aspects of 18th and 19th-century underclothing. This program includes a dressing demonstration covering the time periods of the Middle Ages through World War I. Kim will demonstrate in what order a lady would dress and will explain with images and artifacts how and why undergarments changed through time. Kim Parr is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and currently working as the collection curator of Packard Proving Grounds, and proprietor of Michstory Tours, LLC. She has over thirty years of museum work experience having worked at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, The Automotive Hall of Fame, The Macomb County Historical Society and its Crocker House Museum, and the Selinsky-Green Farmhouse. She also founded the Museum Studies Program at the University of Detroit-Mercy. Her experience working at Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village as its Living History On-Site Coordinator Programs has given her special interest and insight into the domestic lives of our ancestors.