Fashion and Conflict: Not Living in Khaki

‘Fashion and Conflict: Not Living in Khaki’ London College of Fashion Study Day Saturday October 18th 2014 A Costume Society Study Day in association with the London College of Fashion. Tickets are available through the Costume Society website: http://www.costumesociety.org.uk 2014 is the centenary of the start of the First World War. Taking the commemoration of this conflict as a catalyst, this study day will explore wider concepts of conflict in and on fashion. Keynote speakers: Nigel Arch, ‘Goodbye to all that?-Change, Dress and the Great War’. Nigel Arch is the Vice-Chairman of the Costume Society and retired Director of Kensington Royal Palace. He spent the first ten years of his museum career working with military collections-first as Head of the Department of Art at the National Army Museum and then as Keeper of Military History at The Castle Museum York, where he has recently been helping with the exhibition ‘1914-The Year the World Changed’. He writes and lectures on a variety of subjects including military uniform, arms and armour as well as ceremonial dress. Jane Tynan, ‘Tailoring in the Trenches: Fashioning Men in First World War Britain’. In 2013, her book ‘British Army Uniform and the First World War: Men in Khaki’ (Palgrave Macmillan) was published, which reflects her ongoing interest in visual and material cultures of war and conflict. It takes new perspectives on the cultural history of the First World War, through the uniforms worn by British combatan