Stella Blum

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Stella Blum


Born
in Schenectady, New York, The United States
October 19, 1916

Died
July 31, 1985

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Stella Blum, née Biercuk (19 October 1916 – 31 July 1985), was an American fashion historian.

Blum was born in Schenectady, New York on 19 October 1916 and graduated from Syracuse University with a B.F.A. degree in 1938. She married George A. Blum the following year and they had two sons together. She attended New York University, Queens College and New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Blum worked for the Museum of Costume Art from 1940 until 1942 when she quit to raise her children. Upon her return in 1953, she was appointed assistant curator and was promoted to associate curator in 1970 and curator of costumes at the Costume Institute from 1970 to 1973. She left the Metropolitan Museum, into which the Costume Institute had merged, t
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Victorian Fashions and Cost...

4.17 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1974 — 6 editions
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Everyday Fashions of the Tw...

4.21 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1981 — 9 editions
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Everyday Fashions of the Th...

4.23 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions
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Fashions and Costumes from ...

3.97 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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Eighteenth-Century French F...

4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions
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Ackermann's Costume Plates:...

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Paris Fashions of the 1890s...

4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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Fashions of the Hapsburg Er...

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Everyday Fashions of the 20...

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Evolution of Fashion 1835-1...

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