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Dress Identity and Immigration: A Polish National Identity Dance Costume

One Polish refugee family’s journey to a life in England -1940-1969 -told through a national identity dance costume.   Dance costume, 1967-68, made by Mrs Helena Pogoda (née Kubik,) born in 1908 in South East Poland for her grand daughter,… Continue Reading →

Altered dress 1775

Observations on an Embroidered Silk Dress, English, in the University of Brighton Dress History Teaching Collection, made and altered between c 1770 -1830: issues of design, manufacture and alteration. Professor Lou Taylor, with thanks to Dr. Charlotte Nicklas, University of… Continue Reading →

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