From Wimples to Wellingtons: a History of Dress and
Fashion
The Lecture on January 13th 2010
This
lecture synthesises the best of recent research to provide a broad
sweeping survey of key changes in English dress and fashion from the
medieval period to the end of the nineteenth century, covering the
clothing of both men and women. The lecture traces the emergence of an
organised fashion system within medieval society, the use of fashion as a
symbol of wealth and status in the Renaissance and as symbol of political
and religious allegiance in the seventeenth century, though to the
introduction of new technologies and ranges of clothing in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
The Lecturer - Dr. Claire Walsh
Claire has worked at the V & A, lectured for the
Universities of Warwick and Teeside and currently lectures for the Open
University. She gives talks to groups with interests in architecture and
the fine and decorative arts and had published widely like, for example
"The Glamour Holiday – The Grand Era of Travel in the
1920s and 30s. " She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at he
Centre for the History of Retail and Distribution at the University of
Wolverhampton.
This
lecture synthesises the best of recent research to provide a broad
sweeping survey of key changes in English dress and fashion from the
medieval period to the end of the nineteenth century, covering the
clothing of both men and women. The lecture traces the emergence of an
organised fashion system within medieval society, the use of fashion as a
symbol of wealth and status in the Renaissance and as symbol of political
and religious allegiance in the seventeenth century, though to the
introduction of new technologies and ranges of clothing in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. 