Biography and Fashion Collections: Developing a dress-specific acquisition and cataloguing methodology using the Francis Golding Collections.

对弗朗西斯•戈尔丁（Francis Golding）在伦敦博物馆（MOL）和伦敦时装档案馆学院（LCF）收藏的服装藏品的分析，如何被用作案例研究，以创建一种特定于服装的收购和编目方法？戈尔丁的系列涉及男性气质和性别研究、LGBTQ+服装以及英国设计历史，为分析服装系列的获取和编目提供了一个独特的机会。拟议的研究将建立一种方法，使一件服装的完整传记能够在购买时被记录下来，与更广泛的收藏相联系，并以一种创造新的可访问途径（包括在线门户）的方式进行编目。通过收集捐赠者、收藏专家和博物馆观众的经验和需求，我的研究旨在创建一个目前尚不存在的标准操作框架。然后，这个框架可以由个人策展人和收藏从业者实施，并被举办服装收藏的博物馆和画廊采用。这将允许更深入地分析个人身份和对象传记之间的相互联系，以及博物馆藏品中更广泛的社会文化，时尚和设计历史。这些新的馆藏可访问性将鼓励与不同社区的接触；从而丰富了物品的来源。这种方法旨在开放收藏，并包括以前在博物馆中被低估或歪曲的群体和个人的历史。

How can analysis of the clothing collections of Francis Golding, held in the Museum of London (MOL) and London College of Fashion Archives (LCF), be used as a case study for creating a dress-specific acquisition and cataloguing methodology. The Golding collections engage with masculinity and gender studies, LGBTQ+ dress, as well as British design history, providing a unique opportunity to analyse how dress-based collections are acquired and catalogued. The proposed research will establish a methodology that enables the full biography of an object of dress to be documented upon acquisition, connected to the wider collection, and catalogued in a manner that creates new avenues of accessibility, including online portals. By gathering the experiences and needs of donors, collections specialists, and museum audiences, my research aims to create a standard operative framework which currently does not exist. This framework can then be implemented by individual curators and collections practitioners and adopted by museums and galleries holding dress-based collections. This will allow for deeper analysis of the interconnectivity between personal identity and object biography, and broader socio-cultural, fashion and design histories in museum collections. These new lines of accessibility to collections will encourage engagement with diverse communities; therefore enriching the provenance of objects. This methodology aims to open up collections and include the histories of groups and individuals who have been previously under or misrepresented in museums.