About Summer:

Summer Anne Lee is a Brooklyn-based fashion historian.

She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Communication and Media and has an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Summer currently teaches various courses in fashion history at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, WWD, Insider, InStyle, and Refinery29.

Summer is currently researching the history of American presidential fashion and is writing a book titled Presidential Fashion: An Illustrated History for the Yale University Press.

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About

Events

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"The Incendiary History of Red Lingerie" with the Feminist Lecture Program Virtual Class

LIVE EVENT:

Monday, December 9

1:30 PM EST/6:30 PM GMT

RENT THE RECORDING HERE

'Commander in Chic: The Fashion of Presidential Inaugurations' Webinar with the New York Adventure Club

NEW LIVE EVENT:
January 24th, 5:30 PM EST
REGISTER HERE

Exhibitions

Academia

Academic Conference Presentations

Costume Society of America

Annual Meeting and Symposium

(May 2021)

Costume Society of America 50th

Annual Meeting and Symposium

(May 2024)

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The Costume Society UK

Fashioning A Decade – 1980s’ 2023 Conference

(November 2023)

The Association of Dress Historians

"Fashioning the Body for Sport and Leisure” Conference (October 2022)

“Add-Dressing Margins”: Historically Underrepresented Fashion and Style International Conference

(October 2023)

New Research Conference (May 2025)

Genesee Country Village & Museum

Revolution, Resistance, & War: Spring Historic Skills Conference & Fashion Symposium

(April 2025)

Writing

Select Published Writing

Lee, Summer Anne. 2025. “Modern Monstrosities: The Depth and Breadth of the Oxford Bags Phenomenon.” Dress, March, 1–20. doi:10.1080/03612112.2025.2454814.

Men’s Fashion (and Thievery) in Nineteenth-Century London, Bow Street Police Museum Blog

Bloomers On Bow Street: Dress Reformers Arrested in Victorian London, Bow Street Police Museum Blog

Criminals in Crinolines: Fashion in London, 1800-1860s, Bow Street Police Museum Blog

Eighteenth-Century Fashion Police in Covent Garden, Bow Street Police Museum Blog

"Warner Bros Coraline Corsets Booklet," Underpinnings Museum

"‘Electric Corset’ & ‘Electropathic Belt’ Promotional Materials By Harness," Underpinnings Museum

"Corset History IV: The Modern Corset," Dark Garden Corsetry Blog

"Corset History III: The 19th Century," Dark Garden Corsetry Blog

"Corset History II: Stays", Dark Garden Corsetry Blog

"Corset History I: The First Corsets", Dark Garden Corsetry Blog

"Norell: Flappers Back in Fashion," FIT Fashion History Timeline

"Fall of the Empire: Romanticism Through Dresses," Enchanted Living Magazine