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The world's oldest charity dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of historic and contemporary dress. https://costumesociety.org.uk/
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🗝️ Digital Conference Bag
• 30% discount (+ free shipping to UK) Yale Books, Yale University Press on 4 of their publications, incl @fourredshoes.bsky.social
A Guide to Regency Dress
• Special Georgian themed digital edition of Costume
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Mrs Martha Nichols by T. Towne, c 1780. Courtesy Leicestershir Guide to Regency Dress - From Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins by Hilary Davidson. Courtesy Yale Books and Yale University Press Artistic Dress at Liberty & Co' by Anna Buruma. Courtesy Yale Books and Yale University Press The Costume House - The Inside Story of Cosprop from Room with a View to Game of Thrones by Keith Lodwick. Courtesy Yale Books and Yale University Press
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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📢 Session 4 of the Society’s Conference ‘In the Shadow of the Georgians’ 29/10/25 7-9pm UK time with Jennifer Parker, Virginia Hill & Carter King
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Jennifer Parker: Reimagining Rococo: The revival of Georgian styles in the Lolita fashion subculture as performative protest (A woman in Lolita fashion searching for a suitable photography location. Photo by Yanhao Fang on Unsplash) Fashion Plate, 1808, Mode d’Italia, Corriere delle Dame Carter King: Indigenizing European Fashions in the Georgian Period: How Historic Haudenosaunee Dress Expands Georgian Fashion through Interventions in Identity and Material (‘Good Peter’, Chief of the Oneida Indians, by John Trumbull, 1792, oil on wood, Trumbull Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, CarNo 1832.67
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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📢 Session 3 of the Society’s Conference ‘In the Shadow of the Georgians’ 25/10/25 2-5pm with @amywilsonstorey.bsky.social Joanna Jarvis, Sally Tuckett, Javier Gileno Martinez @clairebatt.bsky.social Details & tickets costumesociety.org.uk/conference
Anne Dashwood, later Countess of Galloway oil on canvas, by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1764, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 50.238.2. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Ladies of Quality in the Most Fashionable Head Dresses 1788 Courtesy of the Powerhouse Museum. Gift of Mr H Matthews, 1982. Photograph Laura Moore ‘An artist sketching, possibly Paul Sandby, ca.1755’ attributed to Francis Cotes (1726-1770). Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Accession Number B2014.5.42 ‘Robe a la Demi Psyche’ Journal des Dames et des Modes Costume Parisien, 26 December 1799. Private Collection
September 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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📢 Session 2 of The Costume Society's 2025 conference 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' Weds 22/10 7-9pm with Michelle Barker, Dr Elisabeth Gernerd & Dr Anne Bissonnette
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Michelle Barker: The Study of the inner workings of a Court Pair of Stays and How they Might Relate to the Court Mantua. (Image By kind permission National Museums Scotland) Dr Elisabeth Gernerd: Venus in furs: the fur muff, satire and sartorial business in the late eighteenth century (Fashion Plate from Magasin des Modes - March 1789 – Private Collection) Dr Anne Bissonnette: The Anne Lambert Clothing and Textiles Collection (ALCTC) Pattern Project: Mapping Changes in Cut, Construction and Embodied Practices (Photographs and montage by ©Anne Bissonnette)
September 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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In the Shadow of the Georgians - From the Jacobite Rising to Waterloo
The Costume Society’s Annual Conference 2025 will focus on all aspects of dress from what we know in Britain as the Georgian period
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September 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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📢 Session 1 of The Costume Society's 2025 Conference 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' Sat 18/10 2-4pm with @fourredshoes.bsky.social Summer Lee, Fatima Giordano
& Gabriela Juranek
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Hilary Davidson: Global Fashion in the Age of Jane Austen: Communities and Colonies (Nicholas Heideloff Gallery of Fashion, 1798) Private Collection Summer Lee: Founding Fashions: The Revolutionary Wardrobes of Washington, Adams and Jefferson (John Adams by William Winstanley, 1798) Fatima Giordano: Queens in the Mirror: Fashion and Image Choices between Maria Carolina and Maria Clementina in the Kingdom of Naples (Portrait of Maria Clementina of Austria, Duchess of Calabria, Joseph Hickel, 1796 Naples, Royal Palace) Gabriela Juranek: 'It's not that we approve of those belts placed so high....' Social discourses surrounding fashion a l'antique in late 1790s Paris. (Laurent Guyot, Deux Femmes Vêtues à la Romaine, 1798, originally published in the "Tableau Général du Goût", 1797-1799, No. 1 (22 sept. 1798), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2009-1464
September 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM