Find The Bride! 1950s Wedding Dress Fashion/Perth Australia/Ten Pound Poms/History Migration Hull UK

Описание: Help us solve the mystery of the Australian Wedding Dress!👗Fab fashion again folks but this time you're in the driving seat. #hulldressinperth

In 2016 this wedding dress was rescued from a charity shop in Perth Australia and the biggest mystery in fashion was born. ☺️

Who was the owner
When did she buy the dress
What delicious detail does it show about the Fifties fashion industry
and
Migration to Australia....

We also build the Biography of the dress inside and out. We still don't know who the owner was and we'd like to add her into what's known so...it's... over to you!

Will YOU find the owner of the Australian Wedding Dress!

Follow the timecodes to skip between sections:

00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Ten Pound Poms: Assisted Passage Scheme
01:04 - 'I want to go to Australia.' Mirelle's Olga Fay
01:05 - Finding The Australian Wedding Dress!
01:06 - Why would Olga emigrate from Hull?
01:09 - Olga's story: Hull to Toronto, Canada. 1954
01:14 - Meet some of Hull's migrants to Australia
01:16 - Katherine & Doreen Kent:Sydney, Victoria, NZ
01:18 - Mr & Mrs. D. Heaford: Anlaby to Perth
01:19 - Barbara Stephenson: Hull to Tasmania
01:22 - Inventor George Barker emigrates to Perth
01:26 - Meet the Australian Wedding Dress
01:29 - Peggy Wilson: Mirelle's 'Wedding Wizard.'
01:29 - Fashion History: Textiles and Brocades
01:32 - Peggy's Palace: The Wedding Room
01:35 - Susan Small, Horrockses, Fredrica, Rembrandt
01:36 - Trends: Louise Macfarlane's memories
01:37 - The House of Mirelle label: Dating The Dress
01:40 - Fashion: Horrockses, Matita & Norman Edwin
01:40 - Sewing Archaeology: Let's Analyse the Dress
01:41 - Sewing Archaeology: The Sleeves
01:42 - Sewing Archaeology: Size and Fit
01:44 - Marie Parker's memories: Elsie Battle Hull
01:45 - Sewing Archaeology: The Bodice
01:48 - Sewing Archaeology: The Zip
01:49 - Sewing Archaeology: The Darts
01:50 - Sewing Archaeology: The Bustle
01:51 - Sewing Archaeology: Design & Construction
01:52 - What We Know: The Dress So Far
01:54 - Sewing Archaeology: The Bows
01:55 - Sewing Archaeology: The Skirt
01:56 - Sewing Archaeology: Odd Alterations! 😳
02:00 - Sewing Archaeology: Interior 1: Bodice
02:02 - Sewing Archaeology: Interior 2: Cutting Cloth
02:04 - Sewing Archaeology: Interior 3: Petticoat 1
02:06 - Sewing Archaeology: Interior 4: Petticoat 2
02:07 - The End Result
02:08 - Will YOU find the owner!
02:09 - The End
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Don't know anything about sewing or fashion?

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Don't know Hull?

Visitors new to the City of Hull might like to watch the Locations talk to orientate them to some of the fab fashionable places mentioned in this video.

   • 1: The Locations Lecture/Where House of Mi...  

Watching the Showroom talks will also help your understanding of its place in the history of Hull's fashion history.

   • 14:Showroom FULL LENGTH All the Mirelle Sh...  

The Workroom talks explain fashion design, sewing and dressmaking as well as what happened in Hull's second most desirable place for seamstresses and tailoresses to work.

   • 16: Workroom 1: Sewing THRIVED in 1938 Dre...  

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Background to the House of Mirelle.

Between 1938 and 1978 The House of Mirelle was open in the Yorkshire city of Hull. Selling some of the most exclusive clothes in the history of fashion during the years it was open made an unforgettable mark on the city it called home.

Narrated with original never-seen-before pictures from the House of Mirelle Archive, learn from the people who were there at the time and the amazing clothes!
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