Gone with the Wind Costume Conservation Begins at the Ransom Center

A follow-up to this summer’s most heart-warming story, when the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas Austin received $30,000 in donations to preserve costumes worn in the classic film Gone with the Wind. The Center has just posted a lengthy report on their blog, explaining that the very, very careful work on the five dresses they have in their possession has finally begun. Thus far in the long process (they aren’t set to be displayed until 2014, the 75th anniversary of the film’s release), they’re to the investigative portion, figuring out how exactly it was constructed and where damage can be corrected on a microscopic level.