18th Century Georgian Global Salon
Theme Timeframe: 1760-1800
Join Us
- 5:30 PM, Saturday, October 4, 2025
- Women’s University Club, 1105 6th Ave, Seattle, WA
- Dinner, Lecture, Salon, & Ball
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Laura Beltrán-Rubio
Details
*Discounted Hotel Room Block Details (hotel is one block from the Salon venue)
Renaissance Seattle Hotel for 219.00 USD per night – Valid 2 Oct to 6 Oct 2025
Book w/Costumers of Color Group Rate
On October 4, 2025 the Women’s University Club in Seattle will be transformed into a 18th-century Georgian Salon for the second annual Costumers of Color 501(c)(3) historical costuming event! To celebrate a second year of unwavering commitment to multicultural costuming excellence we are inviting you to an 18th-century Georgian Salon as it could and should have been: open to the global community of POC (People of Color) that old England had knowledge of and contact with. If you are POC and would like to wear the clothing your ancestors might have worn during the 18th-century Georgian Era you are most welcome to. **If you are not POC please stick to European/ American 18th-century fashions.
The doors of the 18th Century Georgian Global Salon will open at 5:30 PM for a cocktail hour, followed by a seated dinner where we will be educated by a historical keynote speaker and entertained by delightful demos of 18th-century music, dances, and opera. After dinner there will be historical card games and historical dancing in the Drawing Room and Ballroom until the doors close and we go out into the night for a group historical nightcap at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel, as their bar has agreed to stay open an extra couple hours for us. #costumersofcolor #globalsalon
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
SATURDAY
5:30pm-6:30pm Cocktail hour
- 6pm to 7pm 18th C violin music by Tesla Cunningham
6:30pm-8:00pm Seated dinner
- 7pm-8pm Keynote lecture by Dr. Laura Beltrán-Rubio
- Title: The Other Story of Georgian Fashion
8:00pm-10pm Historical games, historical dancing, Salon socializing
10pm-10:30pm Group photo, last call
1030pm Nightcap at Renaissance Seattle Marriott hotel bar (reservations 1030pm – 12:30am for us!)
Meet the people who are making this event possible:
Dr Laura Beltrán-Rubio is a researcher, curator, and educator, specializing in the history of art and fashion. Her research explores the construction and performance of identities through artistic expression, with a broad interest in Native American and Indigenous fashion and textiles.
More specifically, her work analyzes the importance of Indigenous ways of knowing in the development of fashion and textile arts in the Americas from the early colonial period to the present-day, while uncovering the endurance of colonialist dynamics in contemporary fashion.
Laura is Senior Researcher and Managing Editor at The Fashion and Race Database and Senior Lecturer in Design Cultures at De Montfort University. She completed her PhD at The College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA) and holds an MA in Fashion Studies from Parsons School of Design (New York). She has previously taught at Parsons, William & Mary, and Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). She hosts the podcast Redressing Fashion. As a public-facing scholar, Laura’s mission is to expand the narratives of fashion to create more diverse, equitable, and socially just societies.
During her lecture at the Salon, Dr Laura Beltran-Rubio will shed light on some underrepresented histories of fashion in the eighteenth century. The talk explores how the diversity of fashion practices among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color around the world shaped fashion in the Georgian era. In an increasingly globalized century, fashion became both a form of resistance and an expression of changing, often hybrid, and increasingly complex human and cultural identities.
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