Posts by venue: Fashion

Top Ten Hats: Part Two

In this part we would like to introduce five more of the top ten hats. In the collection there are 35 bonnets, nine of which are mourning bonnets. This one dates back to 1890 and is a fine example with… Read more

Top Ten Bags : Part Two

This blog concludes the top ten bags list, here are the final five. The first is one of the smallest bags that we came across and dates to around 1900. It is made of a very fine silver chain and has… Read more

Top Ten Hats: Part One

Functional or fashionable?  The design of hats interests people but what are hats for? Working on several projects in the costume and textiles store at Discovery for the past eight weeks, Hannah Keen and I have tried to figure out… Read more

Top Ten Bags : Part One

For the past eight weeks Chiao-Mei Lin and I, who are both masters students at Newcastle University, have been working on a number of projects in the costume and textiles store at Discovery. For this project Mei and I have been… Read more

First World War wedding fashions

We have in the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums costume collection some beautiful wedding outfits from the First World War era. 1914 – TWCMS : D5868.1-5 & D5871     This wedding dress (above) is currently on display in… Read more