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…
Fancy dress may be inherently unfashionable but it has found a home in the seasonal wardrobe of many people the world over – the …
This week’s episode raises a potentially divisive question: is re-enactment a form of fancy dress? From historical associations a…
Dressing the Part – the influence of literature on fancy dress. Episode 8 looked at how fancy dress shapes fictional stories, usu…
It is not contentious to connect costume and the catwalk: Alexander McQueen did in 1997 with his ‘It’s A Jungle Out There’ collec…
Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, novelists seemed fascinated by fancy dress. From Defoe to de Maurier, Blyton to P…
Halloween Headlines – The fancy dress day of the year, Halloween provides an opportunity for people the world over to get creativ…
On 11 and 13 February 1903, the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, was the venue for one of the most opulent costumed entertainments h…