{"id":91232,"date":"2021-10-05T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=91232"},"modified":"2022-08-31T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:18:12","slug":"my-life-in-five-outfits","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2021\/my-life-in-five-outfits\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life in Five Outfits"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin magazine-block-editorial-leadin is-style-text-over-image has-media has-box has-media-focus-center-middle has-text-position-x-right\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-scaled.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-1333x1000.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-004-1600x1200.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">CFA Alumni<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMy Life in Five Outfits\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Raissa Breta\u00f1a studies history through a fashion lens and fact-checks the wardrobes of popular television series, including <em>Bridgerton<\/em> and <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/em><\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar magazine-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/authors\/mara-sassoon\/\">Mara Sassoon<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"Photography by\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/authors\/chris-sorensen\/\">Chris Sorensen<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph magazine-block-editorial-introparagraph has-dropcap has-dropcap-color-quaternary is-style-dropcap-outlined\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph-content\"><p><strong>In the weeks<\/strong>&nbsp;after the Netflix miniseries&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80234304\"><em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;premiered in October 2020, sales of chess sets skyrocketed. The show, which takes place over the course of about ten years from the mid-1950s, follows the fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon, charting her meteoric\u2014and at times rocky\u2014rise from orphan to internationally renowned phenom.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The show was also responsible for the resurgence of another trend: 1960s fashion. Harmon\u2019s evolution in the show is visually portrayed through her changing style over the years, and viewers were quick to take notice of the attention to fashion detail. Soon,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whowhatwear.com\/the-queens-gambit-fashion\">articles<\/a>&nbsp;with titles like \u201cThe Trends from&nbsp;<em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em>&nbsp;I Want to Copy\u201d were popping up, offering advice on how to rock the winged eyeliner, flipped hair, checkered coats, and headscarves Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, wears in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The miniseries\u2019 costumes also caught the attention of&nbsp;<em>Glamour<\/em>&nbsp;magazine, which included the show in its popular&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/video\/series\/would-they-wear-that#:~:text=Would%20They%20Wear%20That%3F,-Fashion&amp;text=Fashion%20historian%20Raissa%20Breta%C3%B1a%20fact,clips%20and%20shoes%20to%20hairstyles.\">\u201cWould They Wear That?\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;video series, in which fashion historians, including Raissa Breta\u00f1a, fact-check hair, makeup, and wardrobe in films and television series like&nbsp;<em>Grease<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Bridgerton<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/em>, and even&nbsp;<em>Snow White<\/em>. Breta\u00f1a (\u201913), who studied costume design at CFA, reviews some of Harmon\u2019s many looks in&nbsp;<em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em>, from the pageboy hairstyle and plaid pinafore she wore as a high schooler in Lexington, Ky., to the modernist mint green and black color block dress she wears at the Paris Invitational chess tournament later in the series. Breta\u00f1a\u2019s final verdict: Harmon\u2019s wardrobe was pretty accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:250px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer has-secondary-background-color alignfull overlap-bottom-150\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignwide wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fashion Historian Fact Checks The Queen&#039;s Gambit&#039;s Wardrobe | Glamour\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzEQhviFK60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Watch: Fashion historian Raissa Breta\u00f1a fact-checks the historical accuracy of costumes in the Netflix\u2019s hit miniseries&nbsp;<em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em>. Video courtesy of&nbsp;<em>Glamour<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost people know me through the&nbsp;<em>Glamour<\/em>&nbsp;videos,\u201d Breta\u00f1a says, \u201cbut it\u2019s just a small fraction of the work that I do as a fashion historian. I feel like part of my greater mission as a fashion historian is making this information accessible and entertaining, and advocating for fashion history as a legitimate branch of history. It\u2019s been heartening to know that there are people who are interested in this, that the field is growing and becoming more widely recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below, Breta\u00f1a takes&nbsp;<em>CFA<\/em>&nbsp;readers behind the scenes of her well-tailored career through five outfits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"headline-1\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline magazine-block-editorial-headline\">Hat Tricks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Breta\u00f1a, who grew up in Los Angeles, Calif., designed costumes for local community theater performances in middle and high school. She had her sights set on becoming a professional costume designer for theater and film and thought CFA\u2019s costume design program would be the perfect place to polish her skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a conservatory style program. I knew I\u2019d be getting hands-on training, very specified coursework, and very small class sizes,\u201d she says. There were only five costume design majors in her graduating class. \u201cI got to take classes that I might not have gotten to take in other BFA programs, like fabric dyeing and millinery,\u201d or hat-making, a skill she continues to use today as she makes hats on a freelance basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay magazine-block-editorial-photoessay alignwide wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-thirds-1-2\">\n<div class=\"photo-1\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-1000x1334.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-750x1000.jpg 750w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-008-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption><p class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">At CFA, Breta\u00f1a honed her millinery, or hat-making, skills. She wears a 1920s-style cloche hat she created.<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"photo-2\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-005-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-005-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-005-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-005-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-005-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-005-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-005-1333x1000.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-005-1600x1200.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><p class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Breta\u00f1a wears a shift dress, colorful tights, and square-heeled shoes, which would have been popular in the 1960s. As an intern at a Hollywood costume company, she conducted wardrobe research for the 1960s-set show\u00a0<em>Mad Men<\/em>.<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:250px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer has-primary-background-color alignfull overlap-top-150\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"headline-2\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline magazine-block-editorial-headline\">Costume Relics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUltimately, I found my true passion is fashion history, and not through any fault of the theater\u2014it\u2019s still my first love,\u201d Breta\u00f1a says. She realized this during two internships at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/western-costume-inside-hollywoods-magical-mecca-costumes-1187057\/\">Western Costume<\/a>&nbsp;in North Hollywood, Calif., which she did over the summers after her sophomore and junior years. Western Costume was established in 1912 and is one of the oldest film and TV costume houses in the world, having started outfitting movies from the very early days of the silent era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI did an internship in their research library because I thought I wanted to be an award-winning costume designer, and I understood that in order to do that I had to work with award-winning costume designers.\u201d She conducted research for designers on productions including&nbsp;<em>American Horror Story: Asylum<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Mad Men<\/em>\u2014both set in the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really fell in love with the research aspect of it. I was poring through old issues of&nbsp;<em>Vogue<\/em>, as well as Sears catalogs for shows like&nbsp;<em>Mad Men<\/em>, and I really loved looking at these primary sources,\u201d she says. She would later fact-check&nbsp;<em>Mad Men<\/em>&nbsp;in a&nbsp;<em>Glamour<\/em>&nbsp;video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote magazine-block-bu-pullquote alignwide has-image-focus-center-middle has-tertiary-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote-inner\"><figure><\/figure><blockquote><div class=\"container-lockup\"><div class=\"container-icon-outer\"><div class=\"container-icon-inner\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"container-text\"><hr\/><div class=\"quote-sizing\">At the time, I don\u2019t think I realized how lucky I was to have these internships. The whole experience was really instrumental in helping me discover my love for fashion history.<\/div><footer class=\"caption\">&#8211; Breta\u00f1a<\/footer><hr\/><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During her internships, Breta\u00f1a also supervised Western Costume\u2019s star collection, what she describes as a \u201ctemperature-controlled fortress of Hollywood history\u201d that contains some of the most valuable costume pieces from film history, including a blue-gray dress Vivien Leigh wore in&nbsp;<em>Gone with the Wind<\/em>, the hat Claude Rains wore as Captain Louis Renault in&nbsp;<em>Casablanca<\/em>, the traveling clothes from&nbsp;<em>The Sound of Music<\/em>, and items from Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Cleopatra<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the time, I don\u2019t think I realized how lucky I was to have these internships. The whole experience was really instrumental in helping me discover my love for fashion history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"headline-3\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline magazine-block-editorial-headline\">Think Pink<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA year after graduating, I had a moment where I realized that I did not want to continue doing costume design professionally, which was very harrowing because I spent my entire adolescence and college years working toward that,\u201d says Breta\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The epiphany came during a lecture at Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts on an exhibit called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.org\/exhibitions\/think-pink\"><em>Think Pink<\/em><\/a>, which explored the gendered history of the color pink in fashion. \u201cIt felt like the doors were flying open. I had been there a million times. I\u2019d seen all of their fashion exhibitions, but until then I never thought of who curated the shows,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know that you could bring together gender history, social history, fashion history, and art history, all into this one profession.\u201c After the talk, she approached the show\u2019s curator, Michelle Tolini Finamore. \u201cI basically said, \u2018How do I become you when I grow up?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two had lunch the following week and Tolini Finamore offered Breta\u00f1a an internship. After Breta\u00f1a interned at the MFA, Tolini Finamore encouraged her to get her master\u2019s degree in fashion and textile studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-parallax magazine-block-editorial-parallax alignfull has-background-color-quaternary has-box-color-quaternary has-object-cover-center-middle is-style-content-left-split\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-parallax-media\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-parallax-background-image\"><\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-editorial-parallax-figure js-block-editorial-parallax-active\" data-rellax-speed=\"-5\" data-rellax-percentage=\"0.5\"><picture class=\"wp-block-editorial-parallax-picture\"><source media=\"(max-height: 480px)\" srcset=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-854x480.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(max-height: 720px)\" srcset=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1280x720.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(max-height: 768px)\" srcset=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1366x768.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-parallax-image wp-image-91270\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-992x558.jpg 992w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1500x844.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1984x1116.jpg 1984w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1600x900.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1366x768.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-006-crop-854x480.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/picture><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-parallax-content-outer\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-parallax-content-inner\">\n<h3 id=\"headline-5\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline magazine-block-editorial-headline\">&#8220;I had a moment where I realized that I did not want to continue doing costume design professionally, which was very harrowing because I spent my entire adolescence and college years working toward that.&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>\u2013 Breta\u00f1a<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"headline-4\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline magazine-block-editorial-headline\">Shoe Savvy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Breta\u00f1a is an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/art-history\/faculty\/raissa-bretana.php\">adjunct instructor<\/a>&nbsp;at FIT\u2014where she got her master\u2019s\u2014and Pratt Institute, where she teaches courses on 20th-century fashion and art, the history of costume and fashion in film, and the history of modern fashion. \u201cMy favorite period of fashion in this span is probably from 1910 to 1914, like we see in&nbsp;<em>Titanic<\/em>,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is the birth of modern dress, when you really see some incredible design.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Breta\u00f1a emphasizes that teaching is just one other component of her multifaceted career. \u201cThere is no blueprint for how to become a fashion historian because it\u2019s a relatively young occupation, and fashion history has only recently been acknowledged as a viable field of study. My day job is teaching\u2014and I love it\u2014but that\u2019s less than 50 percent of what I actually do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides teaching and hosting the&nbsp;<em>Glamour<\/em>&nbsp;videos, Breta\u00f1a also recently wrote the book&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbeville.com\/books\/shoes-by-raissa-bretana-871-b\">Shoes<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(Abbeville Press, 2021), a visual history spanning four hundred years of footwear, showcasing rare items that can be seen in museums around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no set career path for this profession, and there are also very few jobs. So I feel very lucky to be working so much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay magazine-block-editorial-photoessay alignwide wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-thirds-2-1\">\n<div class=\"photo-2\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-002-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-002-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-002-636x415.jpg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-002-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-002-1536x1002.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-002-2048x1336.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-002-1533x1000.jpg 1533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><p class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Breta\u00f1a, who wears a pair of futuristic heels, knows a thing or two about shoes. She\u2019s written a book that looks at the history of footwear over four hundred years.<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"photo-1\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-1000x1334.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-750x1000.jpg 750w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/21-1274-CFABRETANA-003-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:250px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer has-primary-background-color alignfull overlap-top-150\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"headline-5\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline magazine-block-editorial-headline\">Hollywood History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Breta\u00f1a also conducts fashion research for film and television as a consultant. \u201cThat\u2019s probably some of my favorite work that I do because it makes me feel like I\u2019m back at Western Costume,\u201d she says. During her internships at Western, she worked with the noted costume designer Lou Eyrich on&nbsp;<em>American Horror Story: Asylum<\/em>&nbsp;and the two stayed in touch. Since then, she\u2019s helped Eyrich with research for FX\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Pose<\/em>, about New York City\u2019s drag ball culture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and Netflix\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81088617\"><em>Hollywood<\/em><\/a>, about the film studio system in the late 1940s.\u201cBeing a consultant on&nbsp;<em>Hollywood<\/em>&nbsp;was probably my ultimate dream job,\u201d says Breta\u00f1a. She primarily did research for the show\u2019s finale, set at the 1948 Oscars. The creators and producers wanted to recreate the clothing worn by every nominee, presenter, and attendee. So Breta\u00f1a pored over back issues of the&nbsp;<em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Vogue<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Women\u2019s Wear Daily<\/em>, and tabloids from the time to look for clues. 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