Location
Docklands Museum of London
The theme of this one-day conference is Fashion, Clothing, and Textiles in London History.
Speakers:
Artemis Alexiou, ‘Advertising Corsets: Dress Advertisements in the Late Nineteenth-Century Feminist Periodical the Women’s Penny Paper / Woman’s Herald, 27 Oct. 1888– 23 Apr. 1892’
Aidan Jones, ‘Fashion and the embodiment of regality: “like talking to St Paul’s Cathedral”‘
Hannah Wroe, ‘Selling British Fashion: The Rise and Fall of The British Model House’
Sage Foley and Steph Haire, ‘The Uncovering Dressmakers Project’
Laura Wilson, ‘A History of textiles in the London Borough of Newham’
Caroline Ness, ‘Selling Mid-Twentieth Century London Couture: “Mattli of Mayfair”
Keren Prothero, ‘”The New Chintz Tradition”, modernity in floral textile design in London in the 1960s’
Event Website: https://www.lamas.org.uk/conferences/20-local-history.html
Ticket Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lamas-local-history-conference-2024-tickets-1044022688967