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The Costume Society
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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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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 16d
🗝️ 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
🎟️ costumesociety.org.uk/conference

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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
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 16d
📢 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
Details & tickets costumesociety.org.uk/conference
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
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Brunel Museum @brunelmuseum.bsky.social · 16d
There's still time to book tickets for our special screening of Sofia Coppola's 2006 cinematic biography of Marie Antoinette, with a fast-paced retro soundtrack and sumptuous clothing.

Wednesday 24 September
Doors 6.30pm, screening at 7pm.

Tickets available here: vist.ly/47qyi
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 17d
📢 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
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 19d
📢 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
Details & ticket sales costumesociety.org.uk/conference/c...
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)
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 19d
We are so sorry - try this www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-sha...
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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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 22d
📢 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
Tickets eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…
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
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 22d
📢 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' online conference tickets now live - international speakers explore many aspects of dress 1714-1815
Full details of the conference programme costumesociety.org.uk/conference
Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…#fashionhistory#cossoc2525
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 29d
We are looking for volunteers to join Events & Conference Sub-Committee to help develop, promote & deliver our visits, events, annual celebration day & online conference.
costumesociety.org.uk/news/item/jo... & reach out to our Sub-Committee Chair, Philip Warren [email protected]
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · Sep 4
We are saddened to hear about the death of Giorgio Armani (1934-2025). Beginning his career at Cerruti 1881, launching his eponymous label in 1975 Armani built a career redefining women's and men's wardrobes. The fashion industry has lost a rare talent.
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · Jun 21
We are so excited that Anna Buruma will be our keynote speaker on July 5th 2025!

Book your ticket to meet and hear from renowned @LibertyLondon archivist.

Book your ticket now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-costume-…
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · Jun 3
✂️🧵🪡 If you'd like a chance to see the finalists of the Patterns of Fashion and Patterns for Performance in person join us in Bristol on Saturday 5th July
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · May 30
We are so excited Anna Buruma is our keynote on July 5th!
Meet renowned Liberty London archivist, designer, dress historian & author, Anna Buruma on Artistic Dress at Liberty & Co
Tickets for The 2025 Celebration, Annual General Meeting and Awards
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · May 30
🧵🪡 Join us on July 5 in Bristol for our 2025 Celebration and hear all about our ongoing collaboration with @heritage-crafts.bsky.social including bursaries and our Fashion Textile Maker of the Year Award!

Tickets: costumesociety.org.uk/events/detai...
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · May 26
Join us 5th July in Bristol for our 2025 AGM & Awards!
With keynote Anna Buruma on the Liberty archive, The Patterns of Fashion & Patterns for Performance exhibition & Awards with judge Tom Pye, updates on our craft collaboration with @heritage-crafts.bsky.social
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · Mar 4
Our Chair Philip Warren & Leigh Bowery aficionado Wayne attended the Leigh Bowery exhibition at the Tate Modern. It brings together Bowery’s outlandish & dazzling costumes with painting, photography & video to explore how he changed art fashion & popular culture forever. Stay tuned for our review!
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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · Feb 23
Look out for our News Editor @chicstranger.bsky.social review of The Face: Cultural Shift at the National Portrait Gallery - coming to our website soon!
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Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · Feb 23
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift press preview @ the National Portrait Gallery

The exhibition celebrates iconic fashion images and portraits from The Face, a trail-blazing youth culture and style magazine that has shaped the creative and cultural landscape in Britain and beyond.
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