I am delighted to share the 📢 CALL FOR ARTICLES 📢for a special issue of Women's History Review that I am editing on 🪡 Women Making Fashion 🪡 Please do get in touch if you would like to discuss an article idea. More information is available here: serenadyer.co.uk/_files/ugd/8c4…

We are delighted to share the CFP for the ✨Making Historical Dress Festival✨ taking place dmuleicester on 13th & 14th Sept 2024. We seek proposals for papers, performances and demonstrations. The deadline for abstracts is 13th May 2024. Please do share widely!

We’re so excited for the big culmination of @MakHistDress’s in-person events! Do send in your proposals for papers, performances, and demonstrations!

Making Historical Dress Festival Making Historical Dress Network dmuleicester 13th & 14th Sept 2024 "We seek proposals for papers, performances and demonstrations" 🌟Deadline for abstracts 13th May 2024 Edward K Gibbon Sands Films Studio Olivier Stockman Costume Society UK Victoria Haddock Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Our Project Lead Dr Serena Dyer has a new book out all about recreating 18th-century fashionable dress 🪡📖

Reminder that this deadline is next week!

I had a lovely time last week filming for a documentary on recreative practice 🪡

📣PhD Scholarship Alert!📣 We are currently advertising 24 fully funded PhD scholarships dmuleicester, including ✨ Adapting Historical Zero Waste Cutting Methods for the Current Fashion Industry✨ For more info and to apply: dmu.ac.uk/doctoral-colle…

Our recording of workshop 3 is now up on the website. Click here to view the full programme and recording: makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Workshop-Three…

We are delighted to invite you to attend our second Making Historical Dress online event titled Deconstruction, Alteration and Recreation: Stories from Australian and New Zealand Collections. Register here: acu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Fascinating talk. Missed the 1st bit so lucky it was recorded. Loved the discussion about thread, stitches, pockets & wider histories of objects. And yes, with fast fashion & mass production, how does that change the value & choice of what items we pass down? 🤔 Lots to ponder 🧐

Kicking off our festival today is a keynote on ‘Animating Durer’s Cloaks’ by Ulinka Rublack Cambridge University . Rublack talks about recreating the colours and cloaks of 15th and 16th century menswear

Loved speaking with Marg Dier Embroidery about a 1629 embroidered Bible cover and a 1672 beadwork casket conserved by the Royal School of Needlework Studio for the Making Historical Dress Network festival. What a great forum to bring together makers and researchers of making!

Fashion historian Dr Serena Dyer and a team of experts have recreated a rare mantua dress from the 1690s during the Making Historical Dress Network festival, to help inform today's dressmakers about sustainability Sarah Bendall ow.ly/oLbE50TpQ0s

In conjunction with our final festival we set ourselves the challenge of making a 1690s mantua. It is based on one worn by a doll named Lady Clapham V&A . Collaboratively we used our experience of making 17thc & 18thc clothing to bring the gown to life in only a few days!

Collaborating with some of the world’s best mantua-making minds on this 1690s mantua really was one of the highlights of our Making Historical Dress Festival last week 🪡