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FASHION HISTORY MUSEUM
Curator's Blog
While conducting research, FHM Curator & Director, Jonathan Walford, often runs across interesting fashion-related stories and shares them through this blog.
The Ghost Dressmaker...
A few years ago I was helping research the date of an Edwardian opera cloak with the maker’s label 'E O’Donovan' and the final story we...
Jonathan Walford
Oct 7, 2021
The Bicycle Bloomer Brouhaha of the 1890s
In 1851, American Amelia Bloomer published an article in her newspaper The Lily calling for dress reform. She, and her group of...
Jonathan Walford
Sep 10, 2021
What is a Flapper?
Bathing Beauties, 1922 Several period sources claim the word ‘flapper’ originated from the American fashion among teenage girls for...
Jonathan Walford
Aug 30, 2021
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