A tour of 1940s fashion across the globe, looking at original vintage clothes and accessories that tell the stories of women’s lives in World War Two.
You’ll see a coat from bombed-out Coventry, shoes from Cairo, Indian embroidery, Japanese workwear, American hats and many more fascinating items, all featured in Lucy Adlington’s history book ‘Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2’
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Patterning a Gilded Age Bodice — Fashion Plate to Reality
I'm sure it's happened to most of us -- we see a really cool fashion plate, or movie costume, or extant dress, and wonder -- how the heck is that thing made? And then we embark on the trial and error process of figuring it out. So this is all about how I took my basic...
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