A part of my cut and construction module we are running a live brief with Beamish Museum to produce a range of costumes that represent the North East of England during the 1950s.This forms part of a new 10 million pound development at Beamish to create a 1950s town. In preparation for this the college in connection with Beamish Museum arranged a visit to Beamish to discuss in further detail the requirements of the brief.
While there we were given a tour around some of the areas like their costume and clothing archive and their sewing work room where they make all the period costumes for their volunteers and staff. Beamish is a special type of museum known as a working museum were all staff around the display areas are clothed in costumes from certain periods of time connected to the areas they work in, like the Edwardian and Victorian Eras and many will give talks to visitors about the area and that period of time.
We also had the chance to look at in detail and feel a number of 1950s clothes the museum had which was a good primary resource to kick start my research for this upcoming project.
I had put together a collection of images of the 1950s clothes taken during my visit to Beamish as well as a small number of images from around the museum itself.
While there we were given a tour around some of the areas like their costume and clothing archive and their sewing work room where they make all the period costumes for their volunteers and staff. Beamish is a special type of museum known as a working museum were all staff around the display areas are clothed in costumes from certain periods of time connected to the areas they work in, like the Edwardian and Victorian Eras and many will give talks to visitors about the area and that period of time.
We also had the chance to look at in detail and feel a number of 1950s clothes the museum had which was a good primary resource to kick start my research for this upcoming project.
I had put together a collection of images of the 1950s clothes taken during my visit to Beamish as well as a small number of images from around the museum itself.
1950s womans shoes
1950s womens black fur hat.
1950s Mens Trilby Hat
1950s womens red feather hat
1950s males wool jumper/vest
1950s Dress worn by the winning of a local beauty show.
Below are a few images from other areas of the museum.
I will be working on recreating a 1950s cinema outfit for a doorman as most Cinema at the time had a team of staff providing the highest standards of service. The doorman was usually located outside collecting tickets and monitoring the queue to people waiting to see what ever production was on at the time.
Once the costumes that we are making are completed they will be put on a catwalk display during a two day summer event held at the Beamish Museum.
Images accredited to:
Beamish Museum,
Beamish,
County Durham
DH9 0RG
