Today I spent a lovely afternoon with Karen from Did You Make That?, Melissa from Fehr Trade and Susannah from Cargo Cult Craft at the Horrockses Fashions exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum.
Melissa and Karen looking very natural for the camera
Horrockses was a British ready-to-wear women's fashion label which was big in the 1940s and 1950s. The dresses cost £4 - £7, which is around £80 - £130 in today's money - so the equivalent of buying a dress from Jigsaw, say - but desirable enough for royalty to wear them. The brand was best known for its cotton summer dresses - vibrant, colourful and very wearable - which were ubiquitous in the increasingly popular holiday spots such as the south of France and Italy.
Karen looking suitably chic and colourful
Enough talk, let's look at some dresses...
Mmm... dresses...
Glamorous housecoats
This cute sunsuit looks like something Casey would make...
But we all agreed that no one could pull off this pink playsuit!
