Season 2
Episode 12: Balls & Baubles – Jewellery at the Beistegui, Capote and …
In this Season’s finale, Lucy and Ben talk with Levi Higgs about the jewellery worn at three of the twentieth-century’s most lavi…
Bonus Episode: Sweating It Out – Reflections on the Christmas Sweater
Fancy dress may be inherently unfashionable but it has found a home in the seasonal wardrobe of many people the world over – the …
Episode 11: Once more into the Breaches – Fancy Dress and Re-Enactment
This week’s episode raises a potentially divisive question: is re-enactment a form of fancy dress? From historical associations a…
Episode 10: Dressing the Part – the influence of literature on fancy …
Dressing the Part – the influence of literature on fancy dress. Episode 8 looked at how fancy dress shapes fictional stories, usu…
Episode 9: Fashion Turns Ugly? – When Costume Meets Catwalk
It is not contentious to connect costume and the catwalk: Alexander McQueen did in 1997 with his ‘It’s A Jungle Out There’ collec…
Episode 8: The Book was Better: The Realities of Fancy Dress in Ficti…
Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, novelists seemed fascinated by fancy dress. From Defoe to de Maurier, Blyton to P…
Halloween Bonus Episode
Halloween Headlines – The fancy dress day of the year, Halloween provides an opportunity for people the world over to get creativ…
Episode 7: Winter is Coming – Romanovs, Unrest and the Costume Ball o…
On 11 and 13 February 1903, the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, was the venue for one of the most opulent costumed entertainments h…