Everyday Fashion in Yorkshire 1939 - 1999

The presentation discusses a collaborative project between Leeds Museums and Galleries and the Yorkshire Fashion Archive, which will explore Yorkshire women’s experience of wearing, buying and making fashionable clothing in the period 1939 – 1999. The project will draw on the material artifacts in both the Leeds Museums and Galleries dress and textiles collection and the Yorkshire Fashion Archive collection to explore patterns of consumption and creativity, and will engage with local fashion consumers from this period to uncover and record memories of the golden years of Yorkshire’s textile and clothing industries.