Speaker: Alden O'Brien, DAR Museum Curator of Costumes and Textiles   Americans copied European fashion to different degrees. Fashionable urban elites had the means to imitate the styles of London and Paris, but how were more extreme styles received? Fashion news reached small towns and rural areas, but were women there able and ambitious to follow it closely? What if your religion distrusted the vanity of fashion? How far behind the times, and how dependent on “homespun,” were those…