Alternative fashion may be slightly older than you think.

Revisiting rebellious fine art movements of the Victorian era leads us to explore how rebels and unconventionals were inspired directly by gallery walls to reinvent the way they dressed and the way they lived their lives in rejection of the later-nineteenth-century fashion industry and society at large

Talk by Darcy Brown.

Darcy is an enthusiast of vintage and historically inspired clothing, in particular Victorian and Edwardian. She studied the Pre-Raphaelites and their associates during a History degree at the University of Hull (graduated First Class BA Hons 2021). This talk is based on her research for an undergraduate dissertation, ‘The Influence of Pre-Raphaelitism and the Aesthetic Movement on Women’s Alternative Dress, 1850-1900.’ She also volunteers with the De Morgan Foundation at the De Morgan Museum, Cannon Hall in her home town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire.