Location
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Programme
This one day conference In Bath is open to anyone interested in the history of fashion from the 17th to the 20th centuries both in Britain and internationally. | To book go to http://weswwomenshistorynetwork.co.uk/
9.30 | Registration
9.45 | Welcome
9.50 | Keynote Speaker:
Dr Serena Dyer, Associate Professor of Fashion History & Material Culture, De Montfort University (https://www.serenadyer.co.uk/): Making Historical Fashion: Women, Creativity, and the Crafting of Fashion’s Past
10.40 | Coffee
11.00 | Session 1 Making and Manufacturing (1)
Flora Derounian, “Everything you see I earned with my needle”: Post-World War Two Seamstresses in Oral History and Film
Elizabeth Semper O’Keefe, Factory Fashion: an exploration of women munition workers clothing during the First World War
Sarah Villiers, Stay the Corsets! views from the workers and warriors, 1881-1921
11.00 | Session 2 Fashion and Identity
Michaela Clarence, Tying a Bow behind your Back: Ribbons, Haptics and the Autonomous Woman
Elisabeth Gernerd, In Women’s Hands: Making and Wearing Connection and Self-expression
Michaela Cardo, Gift Labour and the Welsh-Carlyles: Perspectives on Female Making
12.30 | Lunch
1.30 | Session 3 Making and Manufacturing (2)
Sarah Donaldson, Women, Wool and the making of Irish Fashion
Clare Rose, Designing, promoting and recording fashions: British women fashion artists, 1880-1920
Tobin Shelley, Rediscovering female fashion entrepreneurs represented in public collections, four case studies: Charlotte Treadwin, Amy Kotze, Joyce Clissold, Edith Chanelle
1.30 | Session 4 Fashion and National Identity
Catherine Hunt, Fashioning an Anglo-Dutch identity
Cailin Kwoh, The Palestinian thob: fashion in the making?
Penelope Wickson, ‘Madre Italiana – Quanto Sei Grande!’: The Cult of Adelaide Cairoli and Her Impact on Garibaldian Fashions For Women During the Italian Risorgimento
3.00 | Tea
3.20 | Session 5 Fashion and Politics
Allison Lange, Fashioning Victoria Woodhull-Martin, from US Presidential Candidate to English Lady
Victoria Phillips, Women in Pillbox Hats: How The Cold War “New Look” Empowered the United States Abroad
Claire Delahaye, Dressed for Political Campaigns: The Fabric and Practicality of Early 20th Century U.S. Suffragists’ Fashion in Everyday Activist Practices
3.20 | Session 6 Reform and Reformers
Magdalene Klassen, The Tendency to Luxury: Bertha Pappenheim on Fashion and Redemption
Stephanie Koscak, Rich Silks, Mean Stuffs, and Love upon Tick: Prostitution, Fashion, and the Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century London
Sarah Watson, ‘“Some new investigations as to certain heavenly bodies”: corsetry correspondence with the astronomer, Richard A. Proctor.
4.50 | Conference ends
To book go to http://weswwomenshistorynetwork.co.uk/
Picture Credit: ‘The Fashion Behind but not Behind the Fashion: 1829 – T’is Thus to Follow the Mode’, William Heath (‘Paul Pry’); Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain