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FIT Special Collections and College Archive (SPARC) is a unit of the Gladys Marcus Library at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. SPARC is a highly-specialized repository of primary source research materials related to the fields of fashion and design. It is a rich resource for the fashion industry and scholars of design history, including FIT’s own fashion-centric graduate and undergraduate programs. For more information on our collection and how to access it, please visit our website.

"The day of the Short Man" Satirical drawing from a 1910 issue of Punch showing a woman wearing an extremely large fashionable hat smiling at a short man while her hat hits a tall man in the face.
The Day of the Short Man from Punch, 1910