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The majority of the general costume collection comprises clothes and accessories worn by the people of Leicester and reflecting their lives and aspirations. Certain elements are unusual or have links with important people, such as the Quaker clothing associated with the Ellis family of Belgrave Hall. Others reflect not only the fashionable inclinations of the wealthy but also the everyday lives of ordinary people, varying from Court presentation dresses to a bright pink teddy boyÃ's jacket, and from Victorian workhouse clothing to recent high street fashions. These offer important evidence for the growth of the ready-made clothing and fashion trade, for the effects of technical innovations such as sewing machines, for the employment of women, for the study of fashionable and demotic dress history. The textile collection, from the 17th-century to the present day, is primarily domestic in nature. It includes household linens, quilts, samplers and embroidered pictures. | Subjects: | Trade (practice) Domestic life Textiles Fashion Textile arts Costume | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0116 261 3063 | Telephone: | 0116 266 6590 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5152 | Go to resource |
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