Costume Historian

I recently visited south Devon and some museums and costume collections in the area.  Totnes Fashions and Textiles Museum Par...

Detail of the poor. Tichborne Dole 1671 With many thanks to Paul Leask who passed the information to me.  The information we ha...

At the beginning of the month I went to London and the Victoria and Albert Museum for the 50 th anniversary conference of the Costum...

I have my copy of Costume, vol 49, no.2, it arrived in the post this week and there is an article by Jenny Tiramani on the next volumes...

Louise Moillon - Scène de marché avec pickpocket The 17 th century equivalent of the modern carrier bag was the shopping basket in...