2022 was the year that our @ahrcpress funded network on children's dress brought together brilliant scholars, curators and practitioners in 3 wonderful workshops. All the presentations, covering the 3 events are now available on the project website: https://t.co/d9X7Llnq8Y

Anne-Charlotte Hartmann’s Studio Abi https://t.co/XWcsNM6SEI uses clothes to encourage a sense of wonder in children. Fabric as a sensory media open to all #ClothingChildhoodCreativity

Tony Rutherford takes us behind the scenes of tailoring costumes for @NationalTheatre, using a beautiful suit from 2013 production of Emil and the Detectives #ClothingChildhoodCreativity

Josephine Rout from @V_and_A speaks next #ClothingChildhoodCreativity on role children’s garments like this floral samurai kimono for a young girl played in major kimono exhibition

First up in our final #ClothingChildhoodCreativity @ahrcpress workshop at Musée du textile choletais: Gerry Connolly on acquiring, curating, and caring for @wtmworthing’s outstanding collection of children’s dress

@sociologyblog converts theme of agency and control into being determined by or for in children’s lifeworlds. Clothes help determinative ‘me-making’ for young people who are skilled and knowledgeable self-presenters

Jennifer Farley Gordon joins us from @IowaStateU to share her research into the mid-C20 childrenswear industry. Gordon shows savvy marketing to kids and caregivers. Case in point: denied a collab with Shirley Temple, Joseph Love Inc. partners with rival child actor Jane Withers

Ryan Mario Yasin, CEO of revolutionary childrenswear company @PetitPli, shows us their clothes. Garments grow with kids and emphasize versatility, practicality, sustainability—as well as beauty

Katy Canales gives us a sneak peek of the @young_vam redisplay including @Beth_Williams_ kidswear co-designed with children and inspired by collection holdings

Clare Rose weaves a tale about pinafores in the late C19 system of clothing. White pinafores important to working-class families BECAUSE they were difficult to keep clean: showing your awareness of respectability conventions

@bsp_hinson speaks to us about apotropaic decoration on children’s clothes from Late Antique Egypt, like this rabbit-adorned tunic. Textiles can provide better sources in history of ancient childhood than images—but they’re v rare!

@NFerreiraSussex and Maria Moscati revisit the Shabina Begum case, which saw a Muslim schoolgirl banned from wearing a jilbab due to her school’s uniform policy. They call for a children’s rights approach to uniform based in autonomy, kids’ participation, and substantive equality

@AnnamariVanska up next, speaking on Nordic childhood and wearable technology. Devices marketed as promoting active lifestyle and safety for kids raise major concerns about tracking and collecting of intimate data by parents and manufacturers

@J_BlanchardEm using mixed methods incl focus groups, interviews, and participant photography to reveal richness of preteen girls’ interaction with dress. Context-specific performances of femininity/age ‘appropriateness’ and poignant experiences of growing out of clothes

Second workshop in our @ahrcpress network on childhood clothing creativity @V_and_A today! 🧵 on the papers

#clothingchildhoodcreativity

Verity's book on fancy dress out from @reaktionbooks in August

Next up #clothingchildhoodcreativity: Verity Wilson continues focus on 1920s. Photography vital to fancy dress in this period—commemorating, enhancing status. Hand-tinted photo from gilded family album: Henry Spencer Follett dressed up as his father, Mayor of Exeter.

Excited for today's workshop on children's clothing at @wtmworthing! First paper: @aliceemmasage on the Juvenile Jollities early C20 child theatre troupe. Children's taste for 'highly unsuitable' costumes in luxe fabrics (including this carnation-hued Bouquet costume)

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