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

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!

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…

It was an absolute delight to give the keynote Making Historical Dress Network on chintz reconstruction and its implications for our understanding of knowledge transfer. Thank you Dr Serena Dyer Sarah Bendall for the warm welcome to dmuleicester

Our final keynote rebecca morrison is sharing her research into the 18th-century mantua-maker

We are all ready to go with our third workshop, Learning from Making dmuleicester

It was delightful to catch up with two of our past keynote speakers, Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm Davies of The Tudor Tailor , at the Artisan & Reenactors Market in Warwickshire today! Our PI Dr Serena Dyer and Co-I Sarah Bendall may have done a little shopping … 🛍️🛍️

Out network PI and co-I Dr Serena Dyer & Sarah Bendall along with Cat Ferreira brought together their recreations of 17th- 18th- and 19th-century bodies, stays and corsets to teach Dr Elisabeth Gernerd’s DMU Contour students for Corset Day!

I'm giving a talk next Weds at the Paul Mellon Centre on 'Cosmetics, Beauty and the Nature of Renaissance Women'. It's being streamed online, handy for people who aren't in London - sign up to get a link here: paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forth…