Today I went along to the Fashion Museum in Bath where I had arranged to have a 'handling session' with a selection of garments. They have in storage over 800 historical garments of different relevant importance and our attic of the studio of No.4 The Circus is where they still look after some pieces.
I had requested to view dresses from the 1920s, black dinner jackets and Grecian style draped dresses - all relevant for research into my final collection.
The images above are of one of the dresses which I found most striking. It is a couture gown designed by Norman Hartnell around the 1950s.
Hartnell is a very famous name in the couture fashion world as he was designer for the Queen and designed the outfits for the two most important occasions in her life - her coronation and her wedding.
As you can see, this floor length dress is a pinky/gold satin and what makes it couture is the painstaking hand stitching which you can see on the inside of the bodice and the turned up hem.
With handling first hand old garments such as this it makes you wonder what events and occasions this dress has been worn on and the life before it finally resides to the Fashion Museum...
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