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‘Fashioning Masculinities:’ Tracing the history of gender-fluid menswear
“"We really want to show people the long history of changing ideas of masculinity,” co-curator Rosalind McKever told CNN at the museum’s exhibition preview. “(What should menswear look like) feels like such a contemporary question, but this is a much longer story than maybe some people realize.”“
Place cards, drawn by Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Melford Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk, was the home of Beatrix Potter’s (1866-1943) cousin Ethel Hyde-Parker. Beatrix visited many times with her entourage of pet animals as a break from London. She liked to try her tales out on the young children there to see their reactions. This dinner card is part of a set of 15 produced by Beatrix for Melford Hall and was used by Ethel Hyde-Parker’s daughter, Stephanie. Names of guests could be inserted into the diagonal slots. [V&A]
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Kitchen of the Hibberd doll’s house:
This is a house which was made in the early 1800s, probably by a carpenter. It was bought by Mrs Winifred Alice Hibberd from a shop in St. John’s Wood High Street, London in 1965 for £60. It had belonged to a family (for whom it was originally made) living in a house in one of the Regents Park Terraces. Only two elderly sisters were left, and they had sold the house as they were moving to a smaller home where there would be no room for it.
Mrs Hibberd repaired and furnished the house herself between 1965 and 1979, keeping a record of where the items had come from and all the work done. The furnishings came from many different sources including America, Spain, France and Scotland as well as craft and antique fairs and London shops. Mrs Hibberd also typed a guide to the house.[V&A]
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‘The New Alphabet Game, A Cottage to Build Containing 45 Pieces’, maker unknown, circa 1850.
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Health and safety posters designed by Thomas Eckersley, issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during the Second World War.
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