Uniform, Power and the Sea
If anyone is lucky enough to be in London on the 23rd March I can highly recommend going along to the Design Museum where fashion historian Amber Butchart is curating a series of events as part of the museum’s Women, Fashion, Power season. One of the final events is a lecture by Amber herself on Uniform, Power and the Sea. Blurb as follows:
Fashion Historian Amber Butchart guest-curates a programme of three talks on power, dress and culture. For this event she explores the links between uniform, power and nautical dress.
Nautical motifs are a perennial on contemporary catwalks, from regimental naval glamour to the square sailor collar. But how did these elements of men’s uniform - created as a spectacular display of sartorial power and military might - cross into women’s dress, and how did their meanings change with this transition? Fashion historian Amber Butchart discusses the complex relationship between uniform, war, power and fashion, from the development of naval uniform to its appropriation into womenswear, covering areas based on research from her latest book, Nautical Chic (2015): a look at the history of high fashion on the high seas.
Further details here: Uniform, Power and the Sea.
And while we're on the subject, you might want to look out for Amber's forthcoming book Nautical Chic, which looks rather divine!
Fashion Historian Amber Butchart guest-curates a programme of three talks on power, dress and culture. For this event she explores the links between uniform, power and nautical dress.
Nautical motifs are a perennial on contemporary catwalks, from regimental naval glamour to the square sailor collar. But how did these elements of men’s uniform - created as a spectacular display of sartorial power and military might - cross into women’s dress, and how did their meanings change with this transition? Fashion historian Amber Butchart discusses the complex relationship between uniform, war, power and fashion, from the development of naval uniform to its appropriation into womenswear, covering areas based on research from her latest book, Nautical Chic (2015): a look at the history of high fashion on the high seas.
Further details here: Uniform, Power and the Sea.
And while we're on the subject, you might want to look out for Amber's forthcoming book Nautical Chic, which looks rather divine!