Dr Lucy Gundry is a curator, lecturer and researcher living in Somerset. In this talk, Gundry invites the audience to take a step back in time and into someone else’s shoes. To metaphorically dress up in items of clothing from At the Margins exhibition. This will not be a physical act but an imaginative one. By ‘imaginatively inhabiting’ a past life through examining the ‘worn’ and ‘unworn characteristics’ (Gundry 2020) in dress exhibits we can glimpse into how lives were worn out through clothes. What might it have felt like to be the wearer of these items or indeed to wear these items out in the world today?
Free but booking recommended as places are limited.
Book online or call 01453 763394.
This talk will be followed by Dr Jo Turney’s talk ‘In the Wrong Clothes’ at 3pm, with a break for tea and coffee in between.
Image: TP-W 1 - NF.2000-0559 Women’s folk dress (open front detail) T.Parry-Williams © Norsk Folkemuseet
