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  • Fashion Gallery as Archive: Researching Dress History in Museums

    Fashion Gallery as Archive: Researching Dress History in Museums

    By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) In recent years, it has become fashionable to talk of an ‘archival turn’ in history, in which the site of record-keeping has itself come under scrutiny.[1] At the same time, material history has risen to prominence as an intriguing counterpart or companion to the paper-trail left by written documents.[2] As someone…