Gerry Connolly, Senior Curator, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery delved into the Museum’s Costume Archive to share a fascinating selection of women’s costumes from 1890-1928. He showed stunning examples the kinds of clothing restrictions & fashion architecture women of that period had to endure & how dramatically things changed by the 1920s.

Amongst the items was a convertible horse riding outfit for a young woman, with a long skirt to cover jodhpurs, which had buttons at the waistline, to pull up the skirt out of the way whilst riding. Reminiscent of the convertible cyclewear which inspired the Blazing Saddles show costumes.

Photos © KP Projects CIC 2024

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