The on-line ‘taster’ seminar on:Public Textiles and Dress in Museums and Historic Houses: Textiles and Dress for Display and Showwill take place via Zoom on 28 July 2020.
This seminar is intended as a ‘taster’ before we can hold the full workshop at the University of Wolverhampton (hopefully in June 2021). Further information, including the programme (also available below) and registration details can be found here: https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/17/online-publicdress/
Everybody is welcome and participation is free, but registration is required: please see https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/17/online-publicdress/ for details.
For further information, please e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
11.00 – 11.30 Caroline Ness
Couture Clothes for Show: The Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers (INCSOC) promotional designs for British cotton, wool and man-made fibres, 1940s-1960s
11.30 – 12.00 Bianka-Isabell Scharmann
Reconstituting Poses, Experiencing Intermittent Paintings: (Ad)dressing (Intimate) Encounters with Kostas Murkudis’ Panel Dresses
12.00-12.20 Work in progress presentation:Rachel Neal, De Montfort University
Public Everyday Dress and the Private Stories of Wear: Lifting the lid on Early Twentieth Century Everyday Men’s Dress in the Archives
Image: Suffrage banner, Barnsley Town Council / National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, c.1908-1914, Women’s Library Suffrage Banners Collection, 1998.4, The Women’s Library, LSE Library.