Realistic mannequins enliven NJ costume exhibit

Published December 15, 2012 5:39pm ET



PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — A unique costume exhibition in New Jersey offers visitors an up-close experience of what it might have been like to be female and live in an upper-middle-class household at the turn of the 20th century.

The house, in this case, is the former estate of Gustav Stickley, a major figure in the American Arts and Crafts movement. It’s now the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms in Parsippany.

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