Fashion & Family History – Interpreting how your ancestors dressed
Studying dress history teaches us much about the past. In this skilfully-illustrated, accessible and authoritative book, Jayne Shrimpton demonstrates how fashion and clothes represent the everyday experiences of earlier generations, illuminating the world in which they lived.
Jayne explains how understanding the social significance of dress, the Victorians observed strict etiquette through special costumes for Sundays, marriage and mourning.
Poorer families struggled to maintain standards, but young single workers spent their wages on clothes, the older generation cultivating their own discreet style. Twentieth-century dress grew more relaxed and democratic as popular culture influenced fashion for recent generations who enjoyed sport, cinema, music and dancing.
About the Author
Jayne Shrimpton from Lewes is a fashion historian and a ‘photo detective’ with a MA degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She dates photographs at public events and advises on celebrity photographs, also appearing on-screen for BBC TV programme Who Do You Think You Are.
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