Almond, K orcid.org/0000-0002-0311-106X and Evans, E orcid.org/0000-0002-3848-582X (2022) A Regional Study of Women’s Emotional Attachments to the Consumption and Making of Ordinary Clothing, Drawing on Archives in Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1939-1979. Costume: The Journal of the Costume Society, 56 (1). pp. 74-100. ISSN 0590-8876
Abstract
This research takes an interdisciplinary approach, investigating dress through the lens of regional social history by exploring women's emotional experiences related to making and consuming ordinary clothing in the period 1939–1979. A case study encouraged Yorkshire-based participants to reveal diverse stories associated with ordinary clothing. This brought the technical knowledge of making clothes and material-based research methodologies into dialogue with regional social history and helped us understand how ordinary people shaped the way women dressed. The research was funded by a grant from Leeds Museums and Galleries and University of Leeds Cultural Institute. It aimed to build a relationship between the users of the dress and textiles collection at Leeds Museums and Galleries and the Yorkshire Fashion Archive, housed at University of Leeds, which is a regionally focused collection of (mainly) twentieth-century garments and accessories. The collaboration allowed the museum curators and academics to discover how ordinary clothes can be used to engage the community with dress collections to discover and document untold stories of material culture in practice.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Costume. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Yorkshire, dressmaking, consuming, women, ordinary clothing, emotional attachment |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Design (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) AH/S002812/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2021 11:46 |
Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2022 09:37 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/cost.2022.0219 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:181290 |