Fashion & Textile Museum - Final Week 1920s Jazz Age ★★★★★

Going going gone! Exhibition closes Sunday 15 January “stunningly beautiful garments” ★★★★ TIME OUT

Last chance to secure your ticket now for the brilliant 1920s Jazz Age Fashion & Photographs exhibition. Over 150 garments, from Paris to London, sportswear to silk pyjamas, fringed flapper dresses to velvet capes, reveal the modernity of the decade. Colourful illustrations by Gordon Conway from the Illustrated London News Archive at Mary Evans and photographs by Abbe, Beaton, Man Ray, and Baron de Meyer highlight the role of the media in promoting the 1920s look. Book online £9.90 adults* / £7.70 concessions* £6 students / Children under 12 free Tickets must be purchased in advance. *Includes 10% gift aid donation A Fashion Phantasy by Gordon Conway © Illustrated London News Ltd / Mary Evans.

Sunday Jazz Dancing workshop

Sunday 8 January 2017Put on your dancing shoes and banish the January blues at our popular talk and workshop exploring key 1920s dance moves. Hear how the Charleston dance craze swept across the United States in the 1920s in the introductory talk, then learn to shimmy, and shake to the hot jazz of the day.This afternoon workshop for adults is an opportunity to learn classic 1920s dance moves such as the Charleston, the Bees Knees and the Scarecrow, along with afternoon refreshments at the Fashion and Textile Museum. more

Free* | Debutantes and the London Season

Wednesday 11 January / 2.30pmEnjoy an afternoon of Jazz Age beauty, glamour and fashion as we present a roll call of the 1920s debutantes perfectly preserved by the Mary Evans Picture Library.Until the middle of the last century, London’s social calendar was dominated by ‘the Season’, a round of social events and parties during which generations of privileged young women made their ‘debuts’. Luci Gosling uncovers a world now lost from the preparations and formalities of presenting debutantes at court to an exhausting whirl of parties. more

Late Night | Last chance to see JAZZ AGE exhibition

Thursday 12 January / 6–8pmLet’s get this party started and beat the January blues by celebrating the final Museum Late for the 1920s Jazz Age Fashion & Photographs exhibition. So get dolled up and put on your finest footwear to practice the Charleston as we say goodbye to the Roaring Twenties in style.For the last night the Fashion and Textile Museum prohibition bar will be open throughout the evening and London’s Revival Retro Boutique will be modelling their contemporary Gatsby-themed dresses with a salon style fashion show. m