Denim: Fashion’s Frontier | Circa 1840 pants

Emma McClendon, assistant curator, and Nicole Bloomfield, conservation technologist, both at The Museum at FIT, explain the significance of a pair of 19th-century men’s work pants and describe the clues they uncovered to deduce the date of the pants before they went on display in the exhibition “Denim: Fashion Frontier“, on view December 1, 2015 - May 7, 2016. Video created by the FIT Technology Development Team and produced by Tamsen Young, Digital Media Manager, MFIT | Music: Frederic Chopin - “Impromptu no. 2 in F sharp major, Op. 36“ performed by Frank Levy, Public Domain license