About the Society
WELCOME TO THE COSTUME SOCIETY
We are a lively, friendly organisation whose aim is to promote the study and preservation of historic and contemporary dress. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the subject - and whatever the level of your interest and enthusiasm, the Costume Society will have something to offer you.
Lectures, study days and the bi-ennial symposium, held in different parts of the UK, give members an opportunity to keep up to date with the most recent scholarship and to visit museums, exhibitions and private collections of dress, fashion and textiles. Occasional overseas tours are also arranged. As well as a six-monthly Newsletter our dress studies journal, Costume, is published in January and June each year. And as a registered charity with educational aims, the Costume Society offers a number of awards and bursaries to students, researchers and trainee museum curators.
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Clover Dress by Charles James (1951)
Yves Saint Laurent
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Thursday, May 16th: A fabulous job has been advertised at the V&A. Deadline is 27 May. Job description and further information can be found here: www.vam.ac.uk/content/jobs/apply/
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Wednesday, May 15th: An exhibition of floral fashion fabric designs created by female designers of the Silver Studio in the years following the First World War has opened in Chepstow a few weeks ago. More info here: tinyurl.com/bq3mry5. Might make us feel summery while the real summer is still elusive.
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