Crafting Everyday Fashions in the Twentieth Century: An analysis of handmade womenswear and accessories in the Worthing Museum costume collection

这个合作项目将探讨WMA的二十世纪服装系列如何提高对自制女装的理解，重点是女帽和配件的生产。沃辛博物馆（WMA）的服装收藏包括30，000件物品，使其成为英国最大的服装收藏之一。2018年的一项调查，英国南部、东南部和西南部博物馆和其他机构的服装收藏将其描述为“宝石”。与其他博物馆的优先任务不同，WMA的非典型收藏做法为分析非精英服装和将高级时装传播到普通女性的衣橱提供了一个独特的机会。这仍然是时尚研究的一个研究不足的领域。根据收藏的藏品，这项研究将开发新的调查线到帽子制作和佩戴方面，c.1910-1960，当戴帽子是所有社会阶层的妇女的日常做法，和制衣技能是许多妇女的家庭剧目的一部分。这项研究将与社群活动一起发展以收藏为基础的历史研究，包括举办讲习班、收集口头证词和举办展览，与当地团体合作，加强受众发展和公众参与。这项研究是及时的WMA进入一个令人兴奋的阶段，结构和概念的重新开发。通过一个数百万英镑的雄心勃勃的新项目，“让光进来”将大大改造博物馆。WMA的目标是通过建立一个coconut研究中心作为一个区域和国家的资源，将从一个新的角度来处理其收藏，与今天的设计师，制造商，学生和历史学家合作，成为一个卓越的中心。因此，该项目将在服装史的一个未开发领域产生原创性的学术研究，并在重大的制度转型时期为WMA的文化产出做出重大贡献。

This collaborative project will explore how WMA's twentieth century costume collection can enhance understanding of home-made womenswear, with a focus on millinery and the production of accessories. The costume collection at Worthing Museum (WMA) includes 30,000 items, making it one of the UK's largest. A 2018 survey, Dress Collections in Museums and Other Institutions in the South, South East and South West of England described it as 'a gem'. Rather than collecting expensive garments worn by famous people or created by celebrated designers - as has been the priority of other museums - WMA's atypical collecting practices offer a unique opportunity for the analysis of non-elite dress and the dissemination of high fashion into the wardrobes of ordinary women. This remains an under-researched area of fashion studies. Based on the collection's holdings, this research will develop new lines of enquiry into aspects of hat making and wearing, c.1910-1960, when hat-wearing was an everyday practice for women across all social classes, and dressmaking skills were a part of many women's domestic repertoires. This research will develop collections-based historical research alongside community activities - including making workshops, oral testimony collection and an exhibition - working with local groups and enhancing audience development and public engagement. This research is timely as WMA enters an exciting phase of structural and conceptual redevelopment. Through a multimillion-pound ambitious new project, "Let the Light In" will substantially remodel the Museum. WMA aims to become a centre of excellence by establishing a Costume Research Centre as a regional and national resource that will approach its collection from a new perspective, working with today's designers, makers, students and historians. This project will thus generate original academic research in an undeveloped area of dress history and contribute significantly to WMA's cultural outputs at a time of significant institutional transformation.