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The Museum of Costume - Bath - One of the world's finest collections of fashionable dress and accessories.
Victoria & Albert Museum - London - The Victoria and Albert Museum has collected both dress and textiles since its earliest days. The collection covers fashionable dress from the 17th century to the present day with the emphasis on progressive and influential designs from the major fashion centres of Europe. The V&A collections also include accessories such as jewellery, gloves and handbags.
Kensington Palace - London - A royal residence since 1689, todays visitors can explore the magnificent State Apartments and the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, which includes dresses worn by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Diana Princess of Wales.
The Gallery of Costume - Manchester - The Gallery of Costume is housed in Platt Hall, an elegant 18th century textile merchant's house. It houses one of the largest collections of clothing and fashion accessories in Britain, containing over 20,000 items. The collection contains clothes worn by men, women and children from the 17th century to the present day. Many of the clothes represent high fashion of the day. Other, much rarer items represent the basic but equally interesting dress of working people, such as the clogs and shawls of Lancashire weavers. The Gallery continues to collect all kinds of clothes worn by people in Britain, including contemporary designer wear, sports and leisure clothes, underwear and the fashions of Manchester's South Asian communities.
Museum of Costume and Textiles - Nottingham - Travel through time at the Museum of Costume and Textiles, a row of elegant Georgian houses originally owned by a high Sheriff of Nottinghamshire. Six atmospheric period rooms show changes in taste, furniture and interior decoration from 1790 to 1935 and provide the background for figures in original clothes from 1760 to 1965.
Costume Collection at Cecil Higgens Art Gallery - Bedford - There are over 2,500 items of costume, which includes accessories, in the collection. Mainly Bedford residents have donated the majority of the costume collection, over the past fifty years. The largest category is that of women's clothing from 1840 to 1930, which is very well represented by examples of fashionable attire worn by the middle-classes.
Costume Display at The Bowes Museum - Durham - The costume displays focus mainly on women's dress in the 19th century. There are some 3000 items in the collection as a whole and the Museum frequently has temporary exhibitions of costume and textiles.
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