Occasional posts involving fashion history, libraries and/or other intriguing finds
My blackwork embroidery in the V&A!
In 2023, I took part in an embroidery project, led by Toni Buckby, called ‘an unstitched coif…’. Seventy-seven embroiderers from around the world took part, using the blackwork embroidery pattern of a 17th century…
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Book review – Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume: ‘Period Dress’ in Twenty-first-century Performance
Featured in Costume Volume 58, Issue 1 on p. 150-151.
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‘Costumes as Palimpsests’ in Studies in Costume and Performance
I’m officially a published author! I’m very pleased to announce my first article is published in Studies in Costume and Performance. Costumes as palimpsests: Accumulation of narratives through reuse of costumes in film and…
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I may never win an Oscar but…
I am thrilled that my dissertation, ‘Suited and sorted: Costume houses as a reflection of information organizations’, is now part of the permanent research collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…
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Fit Kit: the Reflection of Fashion and Masculinity in English Football Uniforms
In September, I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to present my research at the Association of Dress Historians’ conference, Fashioning the Body for Sport and Leisure. My paper focused on the cut and design of…
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Practicing Medieval Embroidery
In spring 2021, I took a fabulous Medieval Fashion short course online through the University of Glasgow. For my final project, I tried my hand at creating an embroidery piece inspired by extant medieval…
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Amelia Brookins 