Fashion & Textile Museum - Exhibition announcement: Night and Day – 1930s Fashion and Photographs

Night and Day –1930s Fashion and Photographs

Following the success of last years 1920s Jazz Age: Fashion and Photographs, we are thoroughly excited to announce our Winter 2018 exhibition: Night and Day – 1930s Fashion and Photographs. Image: Michele Mogan, photographed by Ernest Bachrach, circa 1939. Courtesy of The Terence Pepper Collection.

Exhibition Dates:12 October 2018 – 20 January 2019 As a decade of design, the 1930s saw off the excess of the Jazz Age and ushered in the utilitarianism of World War II. As the flapper grew up, so too did her fashions. The new silhouettes of the 1930s played with the hard edged chic seen in the Art Deco and Moderne styles, the unexpected as seen in the surrealists and the sensuality of silver screen sirens. The exhibition will explore the day and evening styles of the decade, complemented by photographs of the stars who championed them. With fashion as the lens, Night and Day - 1930s Fashion and Photographs will traverse the great period of social change that was the 1930s. BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW

Can’t wait for your fashion history or techniques fix?
Couture Techniques New Dates: 2 Jun, 7 Jul, 11 Aug, 15 Sept Saturdays | 10.45am - 4.30pm Led by Zandra Rhodes’ dress maker Jolanta Cerniauskiene, this popular 1-day workshop will give you the know-how and confidence to work with high end fabrics such as chiffon and silk satin. Using a sewing machine, you will learn a range of techniques such as French seam, pin hem, machine rolled hem with and without fishline, bias cut binding, button loops, satin stitch and pockets time permitting. You will come away with your own samples for each technique learnt in the class. BOOK NOW

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease Thursday 7 June | 6 - 8pm Consumptive Chic is the surprising story of how beauty and tuberculosis were intertwined during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In this talk, author Carolyn A. Day explores the contemporary social trends and advice given at the time in medical writing, literature and personal papers uncovering the intimate relationship between fashionable women’s clothing and medical understanding of the illness.Consumptive Chic: a History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease will be available for sale in the Museum shop. BOOK NOW