Tailored Titles Ink.
Fashion History Museum's Virtual Book Club
On the first Thursday every month, our book club meets to discuss the month's book selection. The books always have some fashion angle. Sometimes fiction, sometimes non-fiction, but always a worthy read.
If you would like to join the book club, please email Rachel:
rachelb@fashionhistorymuseum.com
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August 1 - September 5, 2024
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The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes:
Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe
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Kate Strasdin
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​320 pages
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In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments - some her own, others donated by family and friends - she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum curator. Using her expertise, Strasdin spent the next six years unraveling the secrets contained within the album's pages, and the lives of the people within.
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Thursday, September 5, 2024 (via Zoom)
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September 5, 2024
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The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard
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Natasha Lester
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454 pages
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In the world of fashion, there are designers and muses, assistants and seamstresses. Then, once in a generation, there’s a woman like Astrid Bricard. The daughter of the notorious Mizza Bricard, muse to the Christian Dior, Astrid has fought long and hard to shed her mother’s fame and be perceived as her own woman of worth. That is not easy when you aim to wow the very same industry that used and exploited your mother.
​Thursday, October 3, 2024 (via Zoom)
