Bloomer making session I
I was asked to do a guest lecture by Ruby Hoette for Goldsmiths' new MA fashion course. I suggested a DiY Bloomer Making Workshop and Ruby offered a whole day with the…
Talk: RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre – Locating the Mobile workshop
I made this pair of 1896 cycling bloomers pretty much the night before I flew to Sydney for the RMIT event. Given the change in weather, I tried to use slightly…
Garment #1: First mockup of the Alice Bygrave cycling skirt in action
I didn't get many detailed pictures of the 'Alice' in action at the Kolding Fashion/Design symposium so I went out for a walk. The multi-layered woollen garment was the perfect…
The Subversive Stitch
This has been an influential book for me in thinking about the intersections of feminism, sewing, technology and forms of resistance. I am disappointed I could not make it to…
1890s Cycling Parade
This piece of footage is fascinating on many levels. I have just completed a 16mm Bolex filmmaking course at No.W.Here so I look at materials like this with a fresh…
Garment #1: Making the Bygrave convertible skirt mock-up
The first garment we are making is by Alice Louisa Bygrave. It consists of a convertible cycling skirt. We are also making a jacket and bloomers. We are working with an…
The Mauve Decade
As mentioned in my post about materials on offer at Woolcrest, I have been thinking more about the colours available to women in the 1890s. The film footage shows pale…
Talk: Fashion studies/Design culture: Convergences and Divergences
Rachel and I finished the first cycling garment just in time (nothing like a deadline) for a talk I was invited to give in Kolding, Southern Denmark on Thursday November 21st. I…
#1 Bygrave Convertible Skirt – Patent #17,145
The first cycle outfit we have chosen to make is from a patent by Alice Louisa Bygrave, of No. 113 Cantebury Road, Brixton in the County of Surrey. It was…
16mm film making workshop
I am pleased to be able to use the larger Transmissions and Entanglements project to help to expose and train Goldsmiths MA Visual Sociology students in 16mm filmmaking at No.W.Here.…