Rachel Neal

Lecturer in Design Cultures @DMULeicester - Dress History, Everyday Men’s Dress, 20th Century Dress, First World War, Interwar dress

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

I finally made it to Fashion City! Such a brilliant exhibition, just the best way to step back into the world of fashion history after a year of maternity leave. 👗🪡👞 #fashioncity #fashionhistory

[Dr Serena Dyer @Serena_Dyer]

✨Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress✨ has been published! It’s out with @CambridgeUP and you can access it 🔥for free🔥 until 12th April! https://t.co/4J2HCcfkha

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

Delighted to see my article 'Wear and Tear: Life Stories and Sartorial Experiences in the First World War' published in the latest edition of Costume, available online now! @costume_society @EdinburghUP #dresshistory

[Dr Elisabeth Gernerd @egernerd]

🚨One week left!🚨Submit your abstracts for Politicising Fashion and Fashioning Politics, a one-day symposium at De Montfort University exploring political dress and fashion. Keynote speaker: Eleri Lynn. Due Date 15th December 2023!

#fashionhistory #dresshistory #fashionstudies

[Dr Elisabeth Gernerd @egernerd]

A peak inside The Modern Venus! Find her @BloomsburyFashn

#fashionhistory #dresshistory #18thCentury #18thCenturyfashion

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

First new book purchase since going on maternity leave, so excited to get reading this and indulge in some fascinating fashion history research! 👗🪡 #fashioncity

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

@Serena_Dyer Happy Birthday!

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

@Serena_Dyer Congratulations Serena!

[Making Historical Dress Network @MakingHistDress]

We are delighted to announce the ✨Call for Interventions✨for our first network workshop on Replicas, Reconstruction, and Recreations. See the thread for more information (image text in Alt text)! 🚨Deadline 3rd July🚨

[DMUArchives&RareBooks @DMUSpecialColls]

🧵1/2🚨NEW COLLECTION🚨1st delivery of items from the legendary fashion designer and punk icon, DAME ZANDRA RHODES has arrived!

Here's a tantalizing glimpse of this amazing resource.
@Zandra_Rhodes #zrfoundationfridays #zrcharitablefoundation #FashionFriday @dmuleicester

[Dr Serena Dyer @Serena_Dyer]

Have you watched episode two of my @EnglishHeritage series, ✨Fashion Through History✨? This time we focus on the Georgians at the gorgeous Kenwood House https://t.co/2txOv3mZEb

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

A huge thank you to all the speakers at our Stitches That Speak symposium @dmuleicester for making it such a fantastic day! It was brilliant to hear about so much amazing research and meet lots of lovely fashion and textile history people! 🪡🧵

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

This sounds great!

[Fashion and Textile Museum @FashionTextile]

New exhibition alert !!! 🚨 The Fabric Of Democracy opens on 29 September! Curated by design historian Amber Butchart, this exhibition explores printed propaganda textiles over more than two centuries.

Book your tickets now: https://t.co/x5YQ8vntKj https://t.co/9mbesfejpz

[Dr Elisabeth Gernerd @egernerd]

Excited to finally share… my book has a COVER!

[Dr Serena Dyer @Serena_Dyer]

Can I tempt any lovely fashion historians to write a review of Crown to Couture @HRP_palaces for Textile History @pasoldfund? 👑🪡👗

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

New edition of Costume journal received featuring a fantastic article by Jenny Richardson on ‘Representations of Munitionettes’ Fashion and Class during the First World War’, a great read! @costume_society #dresshistory

[Rachel Neal @RachelFayeNeal]

I am thrilled to announce our 'Stitches that Speak' online seminar series that I am co-organising with @Serena_Dyer to follow on from our Symposium on 20th April! All talks will be online via Teams. Email or DM for links! 🪡🧵 #dresshistory

[Dr Serena Dyer @Serena_Dyer]

Really excited to announce the online seminar series @RachelFayeNeal and I have organised to follow on from the 🪡 Stitches that Speak 🪡 conference on 20th April at DMU. This fabulous series of online talks will be held over Teams. Email or DM for the links!

[Dr Serena Dyer @Serena_Dyer]

Absolutely thrilled to announce that @ahrcpress have funded @SarahABendall and my network, ✨Making Historical Dress ✨! Follow along as we bring together international makers, curators, and scholars to discuss recreative and remaking as historical method in dress history! 🧵🪡🧶

[Ruth Singer @RuthSinger]

New work! Imprint is an archive of an archive: a series of small artworks made in response to a family textile collection I was given a couple of years ago. I’ll be talking about it at Stitches that Speak on 20th April

https://t.co/7j346HeQqL