Preservation of the Messel Dress Collection, Fashion Designers, Fancy Dress, Homemade Dress, Embroidery, Travel Influences, Gardens, Flowers and Floral Clothes, Hats, Homes. |
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The Messel Dress Collection can be accessed through a number of themes:
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The Women as Guardians of the Messel Dress Collection - explores how the women of the Messel family lovingly preserved their collection of dress.
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Fashion Designers - illustrates the range of top London, Irish and Chinese designers represented in the collection.
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Fancy Dress - reveals the women's love of mainly historical and oriental inspired dressing up.
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Homemade and Personalised Dress - examines Marion Sambourne, Maud Messel and Anne, Countess of Rosse's passion for dressmaking and customising their fashionable clothing.
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Embroidery and the Nymans Needlework Guild - explores the needlework school established by Maud Messel at Nymans, her Sussex country home.
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Travel Influences - examines the clothing in the collection which has been stylistically influenced by the women's travels abroad and interest in other cultures, particularly their love of China.
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Gardens, Flowers and Floral Clothes - reveals that Maud Messel and Anne, Countess of Rosse's passion for gardening and flowers is reflected in their fashionable dress.
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Birth, Marriage and Death - tells the lives of the Messel women through their clothing.
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Fashionable Hats - illustrates some of the more unusual headwear in the Messel Dress Collection worn by Maud Messel and Anne, Countess of Rosse.
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Family Homes - explores the homes of Marion Sambourne, Maud Messel, Anne, 6th Countess of Rosse and Alison, 7th Countess of Rosse, revealing the family's taste for romantic nineteenth-century vernacular revival styles.
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