Fashion and Art Sporting Talk: 26th June at 2:00 pm

‘A grass green is the proper colour.’ Fashions for archery 1781 – 1908.
June 2025 2:00pm

This short talk will discuss the clothes worn by men and women for the popular sport of
archery from the founding of the Toxophilite Society in London in 1781 to the London
Summer Olympics of 1908. It will draw on paintings, prints, drawings and photographs and
the few surviving garments held by British public collections.

Edwina Ehrman is a dress and textile historian. She has worked for two of Britain’s leading fashion
collections, at the Museum of London and most recently the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her
expertise lies in the history of fashion, particularly British fashion from the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Since 2016 her research has expanded to include the development of new textile fibres and
sustainable practice in the fashion industry.

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