Course description: Fashion history has traditionally been exclusive of many of the people who engage in fashion, and this course offers an introduction to dress cultures that have traditionally been left out of the canon. Students will study a variety of European-influenced fashion cultures on narrative margins—those that artistic and literary analysis have often failed—as well as the approaches and methodologies, including archaeology and reconstruction, that have been useful in uncovering and understanding them. Populations of interest include the laboring poor, sex workers, and enslaved peoples in Europe and America; cultures beyond that were affected by colonization and/or dress trends, including native Hawai’ians, Peruvian mestizos, and the elite of Meiji Japan; and the fat, disabled, aged, and queer people present throughout. This course is primarily, but not only, concerned with the 18th to early 20th centuries and will provide the tools for students to sensitively and creatively perform research and broaden the boundaries of the field.