The Old House Museum in Bakewell is an independent award winning museum with a fantastic collection relating to the town and its surrounding area.
Everything in the collection has been donated. There is too much to display at any one time, so decisions are made each season to create exhibitions and displays that highlight the variety of items in the museum.
Inevitably this means that some things are kept in storage, carefully looked after and catalogued, but not always shared.
This blog will be a way of sharing some of the amazing clothes and textiles in the collection. Sometimes they have been given to the museum with a personal story that relates to the fashions of the day, the social conventions of the time or a particular life event.
An article of clothing can tell us so much.
The Gallery of Costume, housed at Platt Hall in Manchester, holds a collection second only to the V&A. The Old House Museum has a remarkable collection of clothes, textiles, sewing ephemera and stories that can be shared through posts and photographs in the same way that these better known public collections are publicised through social media.
It's hoped that greater awareness of the collection will encourage new visitors, fashion fans and design students, lovers of vintage clothes and anyone else with a passion for fashion.
On Saturday 7th June there is a forties themed afternoon event at the museum to get the ball rolling.
Hope to see you there!
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