A selection of available topics, new talks can be created to cater to your audience’s interests.
Australian Womens Fashion through the years:
- 20th century shoes
- 20th century swimwear
- 20th century wedding gowns
- Early colonial Australia: womens fashions of the 1770 to 1850.
- Crinoline and bustle to the Gay Nineties: 1850 to 1900 womens fashions
- The Pre-Raphaelites, Aesthetic Dress and Liberty & Co: late 19th century dress
- Early 20th century ladieswear: 1900 to 1950
- Ladies vintage fashion from 1920 to 1970
- Ladieswear of the 1920s
- Ladieswear of the 1930s
- Ladieswear of the 1940s: during and after WW2
- Ladieswear of the Fabulous 1950s
- Ladieswear of the swinging 1960s
- Retro fashions from 1960 to 1980
- Sensational 1970s ladieswear
- Some kind of wonderful: 1980s ladieswear
Specialist topics
- 1950s menswear
- Australian fashion designers of the ’60s-80s
- Authenticity in costuming: vintage clothing as performance costume
- Balenciaga
- Coco Chanel: a life in fashion
- Collecting fashionable dress: Australian private collections
- Couture and styling (sewing and fabrics)
- Dior: the golden age of couture
- Dressing the Queen: Norman Hartnell
- From Victoria to Beatrice: British royal bridal gowns
- History of Melbourne Racewear
- Norma Tullo
- Measurement and sizing systems in 20th century apparel
- Mid Century Modern Melbourne ladieswear
- Rubberwear for the office: the Vivienne Westwood story.
- The Art Deco fashion of Vogue as photographed by Edward Steichen
- The designs of Elsa Schiaparelli
- The flower in mid-century fashion
- The personal and professional wardrobe of Marilyn Monroe
Attention charities: I like to support non-profits and bookings for subsidised and pro-bono talks are available. Please get in touch to talk about your event.