Costumes at the Bowes!
Recently I visited the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle to the the costume exhibition.
This dress is a recreation of a dress worn by Josephine Bowes in a painting. It was created by Luca Costigliolo. The dress was amazingly put together and the whole size and scale was worked out from only a belt and a waist measurement
Other costumes there ranged from 1700's up to the 1950s/60s. Out of all the costumes I most enjoyed seeing the Victorian period clothing. These Costumes were all donated in to the museum and so they are original clothing!
This green victorian dress is so pretty. I like looking into the Victorian era and I am thinking about it as a personal project for my next module. Coming to the Bowes has been quite inspiring!
