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As student research assistants in the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection, we were very excited when Lieutenant Colonel Fitzpatrick invited us to collaborate with the Wortham Museum in Barton Hall. Over the course of
the past three months, we've worked to comprehensively catalog the hundreds of items
housed in their military science collection. After wrapping up the inventory process, we began the curatorial stages of the Fit for Duty exhibition, in both the Wortham Museum and the Human Ecology exhibit spaces. While the exhibit in the Wortham Museum focused primarily on the legacy of Cornell’s ROTC program and military history, the exhibit in Human Ecology looks at how military uniforms have shaped the aesthetic development of contemporary fashion, silhouettes and identities. As a senior whose worked in the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection for four years now, it’s been so amazing to have the opportunity to be deeply involved with this project, from start to finish.