TRC has just published a new online exhibition. It deals with dress and fashion from the 1920s, the time of flapper dresses and long cigarette holders.
Display at the TRC exhibition: The 1920s from Head to Toe: Fashion from 100 Years ago.
The new exhibition is The 1920s from Head to Toe: Fashion from 100 Years ago. The exhibition can be enjoyed and/or download here. It reflects the 'live' exhibition on display at the TRC in Leiden. This exhibition, and the online version, were curated by Augusta de Gainzbourg of the TRC.
Brown felt hat with a brown ribbon. The Netherlands, 1920s (TRC 2007.0969).
The exhibition focuses on what people were wearing in the 1920s at various times of the day and on different occasions. It includes Western fashion from the 1920s, mostly for women, for daily, afternoon and evening wear, but also underwear and pyjamas, sports wear, and a ceremonial outfit for a parliamentarian.
It also includes a section with samples of printed cloth from the 1920s, collected by the artist and designer, Prof. Yves Cuvelier from Paris (1913-2005).
The new exhibition is number eighteen in a series of online displays, aimed at showcasing the enormous diversity and depth of the still growing TRC Collection.
Only two months ago the TRC received a huge collection of mainly Dutch needlework from the former Naaldkunst Museum in Winschoten; a few weeks later the TRC welcomed a collection of 1920s exam pieces worked by a student in textiles at the Technische Hoogeschool (now University) in Delft.
And in between, there were donations of various individual and small groups of objects from all over the place. The TRC tries to publish these articles in the online catalogue as soon as possible, and to include them in future 'live' and/or online exhibitions.
A list of the eighteen online exhibitions is given below:
- Afghan Dress
- Ancient Greek loom weights
- Appliqués from the Street of the Tentmakers, Cairo, Egypt
- Berlin wool charts
- Chinese lotus shoes
- Dressing the Stans
- For a few sacks more
- From Kaftan to Kippa
- From Buteh to Paisley: The story of a global icon
- Lace identification: 7 examples
- Maltese lace
- Out of Asia
- Textile Tales from the Second World War
- The 1920s from head to toe: Fashion from 100 years ago
- The Rainbow people: Celebrating 50 Years of Stonewall
- Silk Embroidered Postcards from the First World War
- Textile Travels
- Velvet!
