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Unpicking Fashionable Objects
Unpicking Fashionable Objects
First speaker: Whalebone and its Afterlife: Fashion Innovation, Adaptation and Sustainability, c. 1600-1950 For over four hundred years whale baleen (historically known as whalebone) was sought after for use in western fashion manufacturing where this plastic-like material was used to create a wide range of men and women’s garments and accessories, most notably corsetry. This talk draws […]
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