Wow wow wow! What an amazing 3 days! Thank you *so much* to all of our fantastic speakers who have contributed to #CCD2021. We've had superb panels, posters, presentations, roundtables, keynotes, and advice on writing. Keep an eye on https://t.co/aUlnUgNXsU to for uploads soon!🥳
Monday Blues hitting hard after our amazing (even if we do say so ourselves) Costume, Culture, Dress conference last week? Why not cheer yourself up by booking for @costume_society's conference, online across June and July?! Featuring our very own committee member Joanna Jarvis!
This year the @costume_society conference is going online. We will be live for 5 sessions over 5 days in June and July. Tickets include access to all sessions and the final of the Patterns of Fashion & Patterns for Performance Awards #CosSoc21#conference https://t.co/Apo0lMz46t
@CCD_conference Thank you so much for an amazing conference, and for letting me present my work, I really appreciate it. Look forward to the next conference - well-done everyone.
Clothing Cultures 6.3 is out now! 🧵https://t.co/IQKX1X4UpE
Articles include, 'A study of 1970s Hakkâri handmade #shoes: An ethnography', by Hasan Buğrul and '"How soon was now?": A retrospective on the popularity of nouveau #vintage', by Rachel Brett.
A really fabulous experience to chair this session - inspiring papers from #UthraRajgopal, #VarvaraStivarou and #NoliMoyssi about dress as a way to challenge colonial systems and racist bigotry. Great discussion - I could sense new ideas being hatched! #CCD2021.
Next up! We have our 3rd keynote speaker, Dr Rebecca Mitchell @rnmitchell, Reader in Victorian Literature and Culture and Director of the Nineteenth-Century Centre at the University of Birmingham on 'Inverting Victorian Power Dressing: Crinoline and Widows Weeds' #CCD2021
Absolutely loved chairing this panel session on identity and technology with superb papers from @RosieCoffey, @rosieandrubyUK and @mlpProf. Such a great discussion and a great variety of topics. #CCD2021 is a pleasure to be a part of!
Panel 6c is Changing the national narrative. Papers cover 'Jayaben Desai: The sari-clad lion', 'Textile Regulations as a Form of British Empowerment in Colonial Cyprus: A view from the municipal archive of Limassol' & 'Fashion as a Tool of Nation Branding: A Columbian case study'
Next panels include 6a on Cross-dressing and gender politics, exploring 'Fashion, Gender and Resistance', 'Dress and Professional Identity in the Pandemic-era', and 'Power and Wellbeing Through Garment Choice'
Panel 6b is on Identity and Tech with papers focusing on 'New Materiality and Phygital Dress', 'Becoming Avatar: Co-creating girls’ PE kit on 3D gaming bodies', and 'Technology in French Fashion Magazines, 1920-1940'.
Our first panel sessions of day 3 have got us off to a great start! Great papers across the panels "The business of fashion" and "Political edgelands", with some excellent discussions arising. #CCD2021
Really excited to have shared some of my Cripping Masculinity research today during my keynote called Mad Styling and Crip Clothing at the @CCD_conference conference!
Very much looking forward to presenting my paper tomorrow on gender and technology at the Culture Costume and Dress conference panel "Identity and Technology" #costume#culturalstudies#fashion#CCD2021!