A new exhibit entitled “Dressing History: Fabric of War” is now on display at the Pensacola Museum of History. Located in the Textile Gallery on the second floor of the museum, the exhibition opened earlier this month and will be on display until early next year.
The exhibit is a snapshot of the museum’s collection of military pieces that are textiles, with a goal of showing how fabrics have evolved and shaped the American military experience, from uniforms to protective materials.
“But rather than looking at the uniform as a whole, we wanted to break it down and look at the way textiles functioned for our military and how those innovations changed over time,” said Jessie Cragg, curator of exhibits. “So what we’re really looking at is, kind of, the innovation of textile theory behind the uniform.”…