11th October 2008 – 18th October 2009
2nd Floor
What do Horrockses 1950s fashions, the Women’s Land Army uniform, Northern Soul style and a Victorian mourning bonnet have in common? They’ve all become part of the Costume & Textiles collection at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery over the last 10 years. This new exhibition, Off the Rails: 10 Years of Collecting Fashion (11 October 2008 – 18 October 2009) showcases some of the latest additions to the collection, bringing them out of the stores to let them dazzle again.
The exhibition gives a flavour of the vibrant and diverse fashions of the past 200 years as well as being a window onto the lives of some of the people and characters of Lancashire’s past.
On display will be an exquisitely embroidered eighteenth-century gentleman’s court suit, Victorian wedding and mourning clothes, and fascinating fashions up to the present day. Star items include dramatic Vivienne Westwood platform shoes and glamorous Horrockses Fashion’s 1950s dresses with graphic-print fabrics designed by renowned twentieth-century artists Graham Sutherland and Eduardo Paolozzi.
What would you like to see in the Costume Gallery? Visitors can make suggestions in the gallery for new additions to the costume collection. Whether it’s haute couture or workaday clothing, the Harris Museum & Art Gallery would like to hear visitors’ thoughts on fashions to be preserved for the future.
Image: Horrockses Fashions dress, 1952. Image reproduced with kind permission of Alexon Group PLC.
2nd Floor
What do Horrockses 1950s fashions, the Women’s Land Army uniform, Northern Soul style and a Victorian mourning bonnet have in common? They’ve all become part of the Costume & Textiles collection at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery over the last 10 years. This new exhibition, Off the Rails: 10 Years of Collecting Fashion (11 October 2008 – 18 October 2009) showcases some of the latest additions to the collection, bringing them out of the stores to let them dazzle again.The exhibition gives a flavour of the vibrant and diverse fashions of the past 200 years as well as being a window onto the lives of some of the people and characters of Lancashire’s past.
On display will be an exquisitely embroidered eighteenth-century gentleman’s court suit, Victorian wedding and mourning clothes, and fascinating fashions up to the present day. Star items include dramatic Vivienne Westwood platform shoes and glamorous Horrockses Fashion’s 1950s dresses with graphic-print fabrics designed by renowned twentieth-century artists Graham Sutherland and Eduardo Paolozzi.
What would you like to see in the Costume Gallery? Visitors can make suggestions in the gallery for new additions to the costume collection. Whether it’s haute couture or workaday clothing, the Harris Museum & Art Gallery would like to hear visitors’ thoughts on fashions to be preserved for the future.
Image: Horrockses Fashions dress, 1952. Image reproduced with kind permission of Alexon Group PLC.
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