We are delighted to announce that our network website is now live! Here you can find out more about the network, sign up to the mailing list, view the workshop programmes, and register to watch the livestreams of the events! makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk

Congratulations to everyone getting their place secured at UAL today! Make sure to tag us in your celebrations 🎉 #ResultsDay2023

Our friends over Costume Society of America (CSA) are hosting a webinar. Conversations on Dress, Ann Lowe: American Couturier September 20, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern / 4:00 p.m. Pacific (midnight UK time) Find out more and to register: costumesocietyamerica.com/conversations-…

Has any comedy sustained itself as well as Ed Reardon’s Week? Series 15 has just finished - all still up on BBC Sounds - Christopher Douglas had to write the last eps alone after the sad death of Andrew Nickolds and it remains a zeitgeist-tickling, self-knowing joy week after week

Applications are now open for the 2024 Patterns of Fashion & Patterns for Performance Awards! Be sure to check out our website for all the information and application forms. Deadline is 8th of December. #PoF #PfP #JanetArnold #cossoc23 #awards #patterns

We are thrilled to share this feature from today's Guardian Universities University Guide, our status as a Creative Champion and one of this year’s biggest risers! Find out more: ow.ly/StUJ50PJC0M

A terrific costume research vacancy! I’m already envious of whoever gets this lovely job 🙃

So what did Vikings really look like? TV/movies tell us they looked like dollar-store biker gangs, wearing black leather, covered in dirt and allergic to colours... but in reality... they looked like 1970s pop singers. Seriously, thread time.🧵 Photo: Roberto Fortuna

The creative industries are a British strength. But their future is in jeopardy. 9 out of 10 creative businesses struggle to attract highly skilled talent. The number of students taking arts GCSE has fallen by 40%. At University of the Arts London, we've launched a Commission to see what can be done

Last night our VC James Purnell set out UAL’s mission to support and shape the creative industries and education, now and for future generations, and announced our new commission with Eliza Easton ↓ ow.ly/ucUF50PLeSi

‘It’s the capital of creativity in the capital’. A wonderful introduction to UAL in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide. We’re so proud to have been awarded second spot for Specialist University of the Year too.

Last call for this post, closes 27 Sept. Come and join our small team researching costumes for film 🎥 😊 jobs.ac.uk/job/DCP217/res…

Come join me and Sarah McGill on IG live next week if you are entering #patternsoffashion or #patternsforperformance this year!

The next episode of V&A podcast @theatrevoices is out! Join Katie Mitchell, Alison Tickell, Fehinti Balogun, Soutra Gilmour, Kathleen McKee and Roberta Mock as they discuss sustainability in theatre. theatrevoice.com/audio/sustaina…

Thinking of doing a PhD on history of fashion, shopping, or material culture? 👗👑🛍️ I'm particularly interested in supervising projects on recreative practice 🪡🧵🧶 Midlands4Cities scholarships are a fantastic opportunity for doctoral training, networking, and support.

We would like to remind our Patterns of Fashion & Patterns for Performance applicants that in addition to patterns from Janet Arnold, you may also utilise Norah Waugh’s patterns. #patternsoffashion #patternsforperformamce #norahwaugh #PoF #PfP #patterns #fashion

A reminder that you can see Nora Waugh's classic title via Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library. Students: ask your library for access, as this is a crucial resource for costume designers entering our upcoming PoF and PfP awards!

#museum30 Invention - Gunking was invented at the RSC in the 1960s. Look at this beauty worn by Peggy Ashcroft in Peter Hall’s Wars of the Roses, 1963-4. Photos by Gina Print and Reg Wilson (c) RSC. The RSC Association of Performing Arts Collections (APAC)

This is a great opportunity to learn a new skill and to think about how embroidery and applique were used as political tools.

So I've decided to give this whole YouTube thing a go! My first video has just dropped: Historian's Top 5 Books for Making 17th-Century Dress youtu.be/_ubdtSEiXVg?si… via YouTube