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CONSIDERING SHOES
[by Heather Bennett] Children’s Shoe Cupboard, Museum of London. Image © Heather Bennett, 2012 I am no Carrie Bradshaw when it comes to shoes; I am pretty much wed to my trusty Converse and rarely wear...
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‘HOLY LINNEN – HAPPY SHROWD’: THE BODY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH...
[by Hannah Stockton] ‘The Hearse of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, with his Embalmed Body Lying in State Beneath a Funeral Canopy’, 1612. British Museum, Ref: Hind II.322.10.II. Image © The Trustees...
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HORROCKSES: DESIGN AND MARKETING
[by Liz Tregenza] Pat Albeck Print. Image © Liz Tregenza Horrockses is a name synonymous with British mid-twentieth-century design. Often the merits of the company focus on the innovative textile...
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CRAFT OF A FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: VOICE OF A GARMENT
[by Pallavi Patke] Embroidered Cotton Skirt Deposited by John Miles with the University of Brighton Dress Archive in 1983, Collected from Kutch by John Gillow. Image © Pallavi Patke, 2012...
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CHAOS, CONFUSION AND BEWILDERMENT! – WHAT IS APPROPRIATE DRESS FOR THE...
[by Heather Bennett] At Home Dress, August 1942, Picture Post. © Picture Post, courtesy of Wickedlady Collectables. During the Phoney War period of World War Two, September 1939 to April 1940, Mass...
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CROSSING CURRENTS IN HISTORY OF DESIGN: LONDON, NEW YORK AND BRIGHTON
[by Emily Dunn & Lauren Fried] The V&A/RCA History of Design programme has been running for the last thirty years, and was the first postgraduate centre to offer a course in this discipline....
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MAIL ORDER AGENCY – ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF MODERN LIVING
[by Heather Bennett] Kays Spring and Summer, 1958, pp. 2-3. Image Heather Bennett, 2012. © Kays Collection You can easily afford all the advantages of modern living with Kays ‘out of income’ shopping...
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REVIEW: CASE STUDIES OF MEDICAL PORTRAITURE
[by Georgia Cherry] Barclay Bros., A composite group portrait of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1902. Wellcome Library no. 574993i On 12 July 2013, Kings College London held...
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THE MASK OF AN AVATAR
[by Josh Unsworth] Robbie Cooper, ‘Chris Scott/Blakkphire’, 2007, Photograph © Robbie Cooper, 2007 The term ‘avatar’ was originally a Hindu word used for describing the form that their gods took when...
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ORANGES AND SYPHILIS: THE USE OF THE CODPIECE AS A POCKET
[by Rebecca Unsworth] Titian, ‘Emperor Charles V with a Dog’, 1533. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Perhaps one of the most surprising and perplexing assertions made in fashion histories of the sixteenth...
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