{"id":62,"date":"2013-01-24T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:40:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u00a0rich resource for the fashion industry and scholars of design history, including FIT\u2019s own fashion-centric graduate and undergraduate programs. For more information on our collection and how to access it, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/academics\/library\/sparc\/index.php\">our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"939\" data-attachment-id=\"381153\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/us-nnfit-sc-ap101-p8-19100727-71\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/files\/2025\/03\/US.NNFIT_.SC_.AP101.P8.19100727.71.png\" data-orig-size=\"694,939\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AP101.P8.19100727.71-Punch\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;The day of the Short Man&amp;#8221; 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. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Day of the Short Man from Punch, 1910&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/files\/2025\/03\/US.NNFIT_.SC_.AP101.P8.19100727.71.png\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/files\/2025\/03\/US.NNFIT_.SC_.AP101.P8.19100727.71.png\" alt=\"&quot;The day of the Short Man&quot; 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.\" class=\"wp-image-381153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/files\/2025\/03\/US.NNFIT_.SC_.AP101.P8.19100727.71.png 694w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/files\/2025\/03\/US.NNFIT_.SC_.AP101.P8.19100727.71-222x300.png 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Day of the Short Man from Punch, 1910<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2LOan-10","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}