Episode Synopsis "5. Tailoring processes and revelations (with Elizabeth Currie)"

Dr. Elizabeth Currie, who is based at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art, is a dress historian specialised in early modern Italy. The Refashioning team invited her to join a doublet making course at The School of Historical Dress in London in 2019. In this episode she reflects the experience and her work on tailors together with Postdoctoral Researcher Sophie Pitman and Principal Investigator Paula Hohti Erichsen. You can about the doublet course here: https://refashioningrenaissance.eu/experiments/doublet-making/

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