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ion to western naturalism. As supplements to her article, Libes shares with us her database of all the European beetle-wing embroidered garments dating from 1730 to 1926 that she has identified, as well as a detailed material study of two garments, one made for the FIGURE 1 Nurses in SickKids nursing wear, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 2010. Courtesy of the Registered Nurses’ Council, Centre for Nursing, Hospital for Sick Children. 1 Ingrid Gessner, Miriam Nandi, and Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk, “MatteRealities: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies,” Open Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (2019): 312. © Costume Society of America 2021 DOI 10.1080/03612112.2021.1887690 i