@DrJonWinder @_hollowpumpkin @SussexUni Very sorry but we won’t be recording! BUT the book that comes out of this is going to be open-access – including Jon’s brilliant chapter
2022 was the year that our @ahrcpress funded network on children's dress brought together brilliant scholars, curators and practitioners in 3 wonderful workshops. All the presentations, covering the 3 events are now available on the project website: https://t.co/d9X7Llnq8Y
@AudeLeGuennec concludes a fabulous day sharing her wealth of knowledge about children’s clothing and her initiative IN2FROCC https://t.co/W3Qykb9K6T #ClothingChildhoodCreativity
Anne-Charlotte Hartmann’s Studio Abi https://t.co/XWcsNM6SEI uses clothes to encourage a sense of wonder in children. Fabric as a sensory media open to all #ClothingChildhoodCreativity
Tony Rutherford takes us behind the scenes of tailoring costumes for @NationalTheatre, using a beautiful suit from 2013 production of Emil and the Detectives #ClothingChildhoodCreativity
@AnnebellaPollen gives us dress history without objects, centred on the idea that undress is always a form of dress. Intersections between nudism and progressive interwar education = many #ClothingChildhoodCreativity
@RachelHann on enclothed cognition: how science has studied wearing of clothes, including the Batman Effect (+ve effects of using costumed personas when working at difficult things) #ClothingChildhoodCreativity
@helenhancocks talks us through her picturebook Why Do We Wear Clothes? including her favourite page (it’s hats, of course) #ClothingChildhoodCreativity
Josephine Rout from @V_and_A speaks next #ClothingChildhoodCreativity on role children’s garments like this floral samurai kimono for a young girl played in major kimono exhibition
First up in our final #ClothingChildhoodCreativity@ahrcpress workshop at Musée du textile choletais: Gerry Connolly on acquiring, curating, and caring for @wtmworthing’s outstanding collection of children’s dress
@sociologyblog converts theme of agency and control into being determined by or for in children’s lifeworlds. Clothes help determinative ‘me-making’ for young people who are skilled and knowledgeable self-presenters
Jennifer Farley Gordon joins us from @IowaStateU to share her research into the mid-C20 childrenswear industry. Gordon shows savvy marketing to kids and caregivers. Case in point: denied a collab with Shirley Temple, Joseph Love Inc. partners with rival child actor Jane Withers