Not Only Dressed but Dressing: Clothing, Childhood, Creativity Network

Description

A research network bringing together scholars, curators, and creatives to explore new approaches to children’s clothing in museums and in the wider world.

Today children’s clothing is a vibrant and lucrative part of the global fashion industry, and costume brings histories and ideas to life in museums, schools, and heritage sites. Debates over how children and young people wear clothes—from school dress codes to ethical consumption to fancy dress—show that children's dress is being taken more seriously than ever before.

This network, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, created new approaches to the flourishing interest in clothing and childhood through a series of interdisciplinary events in 2021 and 2022.

The network works to:

• generate fresh perspectives on the role of dress in childhood across time;
• explore how dress can stimulate the imagination of young museum visitors;
• inform curatorial strategies and practices for future exhibitions on children's dress;
• place childhood studies and fashion theory in dialogue
• centralize dress in the wider field of childhood studies.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2021

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University affiliation(s)

University of Sussex
Brighton

Partner Universities

Queen Mary, University of London