Design University of Brighton and ACORSO Research Interest Group ‘Tailoring for Women 1750–1920’ (Web)
Time: 18.09.2021 and 24./25.09.2021 )*
Venue: Brighton, UK
Proposals due: 14./21.06.2021 )*
This two-day conference aims to explore the following aspects of tailored clothes for women: their material culture and their trans-European and trans-Atlantic diffusions and intersections of design, manufacture, trade and commerce.
The organizers define women’s tailoring as bespoke, ready to-wear and mass manufactured tailored feminine garments made, usually but not always in woollen cloth, by tailors using specific, professional tailors’ pattern cutting and making up skills and processes and sold in couture salons, department stores, individual tailoring establishments and wholesale ready-to-wear companies and through the second-hand clothes trade in the 1750-1920 period. The organizers are including tailors/tailoring from Britain, Europe and North America in their research. Dressmakers also, though far less frequently, also designed and made up such garments and the organizers include them too.
Program
- Day One: 18.09.2021: Tailored clothes for women in Ireland-1750-1920 in the context of Irish social history
- Day Two: 24./25.09.2021: The Transnational Diffusion of Women’s Tailoring style across Britain, Europe and America: 1750-1920
)* Note from the editor of Salon 21: There are two different details circulating regarding the date of the second event as well as the submission date:
- Read more and source … (Weblog)
- Read more and the other source … (Web)