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01/24/2024

02/11/2023

Volume 55 from our Costume journal is still available for free. Read all the articles from issue one released in March 2021

Click on this link
https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/cost/55/1

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Image: Victoria and Albert Museum c.1725 chintz petticoat. Featured in an article by Ariane Fennetaux, ‘‘Indian Gowns Small and Great’: Chintz Banyans Ready Made in the Coromandel, c. 1680–c. 1780’

01/29/2023

01/22/2023

Climbing a mountain in the Victorian era in petticoats and a long skirt. Kate Strasdin's article ‘‘An Easy Day for a Lady …’: The Dress of Early Women Mountaineers’ vol 38 (1) 2004 investigates the clothing strategies of female mountaineers. From fabric choices to the role of the skirt the successes of women climbing mountains in long skirts.

Kate has since written another article about this subject more recently. See https://theartssociety.org/arts-news-features/become-instant-expert-fashion-19th-century-lady-mountaineers
Image: The Alpine Club
Ladies and guides on the Mer de Glace, Mont Blanc, F&G Charnaux, 1886

To find out more about this fascinating history become a member today and get unlimited access to the Costume Journal articles dating back to our very first in 1967
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01/20/2023

Grey and Red Spectator Shoes, 1930s
England

12/18/2022

In every journal we have book reviews about recently written and published books. In the most recent journal, autumn issue volume 56 we had four book reviews.

Anne Green. ‘Gloves: An Intimate History’, 2021, Reaktion Books.

Margaret MacDonald, Charles Brock, Joanna Dunn, Patricia De Montfort & Grischka Petri, ‘The Woman in White: Joanna Hifferman and James McNeill Whistler’, 2020, Royal Academy of the Arts with Yale University Press

Ingrid E Mida, ‘Reading Fashion in Art’, 2020 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Alistair O’Neill. 'Exploding Fashion: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Twentieth Century Fashion'. 2021, Lannoo Publishers

***Also, we are still looking for a new books review editor, if you think this would be the perfect job for you please get in contact.
https://costumesociety.org.uk/news/item/are-you-our-new-costume-journal-book-reviews-editor

12/16/2022

Silk Evening Dress by Fontana, 1954

12/11/2022

Toques were popular from the 13th to the 16th century in Europe, especially France. The mode was revived in the 1930s. Now it is primarily known as the traditional headgear for professional cooks, except in Canada where the term toque is primarily used for knit caps.[2]