Save the date! The next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed "At Home" online talks will be on Sunday, June 30, "focused on photography and its connections to 19th century fashion".
Programme:
📸 Robyne Calvert: Artists & Photographic Fantasies
📸 Erika Lederman: 'Counterfeit Specimens'. Isabel Agnes Cowper's Needlework Photographs for the South Kensington Museum
📸 Beatrice Behlen: Mrs Broom's photographs of suffragettes
Finally, on Sunday April 28, there'll be another "At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed" event!
Programme:
🧵 Linda McShannock - A Living for the Earnest, A Fortune for the Capable: Dressmaking in Minneapolis, 1880-1920
🧵 Cecilia Soares - A transatlantic wardrobe: an analysis of the Belle Époque sartorial goods from the Ivy House Museum, in Vassouras, Brazil (1870-1910)
🧵 Alden O'Brien - TBD
It's a history of some Nova Scotia #Acadian fashion systems, and also a proposed methodology for extracting social information from material remains - mostly small archaeological finds from domestic manufacture.
"Fashioning Acadians is a history of clothesmaking and dress in Acadia from 1650 to 1750. Through the analysis of four Acadian settlements in what is now Nova Scotia, Hilary Doda uncovers the regional fashions and trends that had begun to emerge prior to the violence of the deportations of 1755. Men’s and women’s wardrobes are described from head to toe, from headdresses and hairstyles down to stockings and shoes, along with accessories such as buttons, buckles, and jewellery."
The 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" event has been announced! Taking place online on September 24th, it's all about exploring the "connections between smell, scene, fragrance and the social and cultural history of Dress and Textiles".
Programme:
🧴 Caroline Vaughan-Kett: Scents and Sensibility; an Insider's View into Modern Perfumery
🧴 Kimberly Wahl: Perfume and Visual Culture 1880 to 1915
🧴 Hilary Davidson: The Fragrance of Fabric. Some Directions in Research
Registration is now open for the first two workshops organised by Making Historical Dress Network (AHRC-funded). Attendance is virtual only - livestream on the day and selected papers will be recorded to access later. https://makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Events.html
Save the date! Sunday July 30 is the 19th Century Dress & Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" online conference.
Programme:
🧵 Jo Teague - The Material Culture of the Needlework of Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum
🧵 Deirdre Morgan - Pants, Performance, and Perception: The Impact of New York's Disguise Law (1845) on Gendered Dress
I visited the #VADTartan exhibition at the V&A Dundee a few days ago and was very impressed with the broad range of objects displayed as well as by the diverse stories and viewpoints expressed through the interpretative materials. Here is a small selection of garments that caught my eye.
This exhibition runs through Sunday, 14 January 2024.