Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes from the Ideal to the Real

This exhibition will explore the enduring interest in clothing our bodies to achieve fashionable shapes. It will feature twenty-five ensembles from the 18th to 21st centuries drawn predominantly from Historic Deerfield’s renowned clothing collection. Displayed along with the historical garments will be the understructures – stays corsets hoops skirts and bustles – that helped shape exaggerate or reduce bodies to fit fashionable ideals.

You may also like the following events from Historic Derfield:

• Next Saturday, 3rd May, 10:00 am, Wooly Wonders – Heritage Breed Sheep Weekend in Deerfield