Fancy Pants: The Opening Night!

Yesterday evening we finally had our opening preview cocktail party for our vintage fashion exhibition! It was perfect end to a hectic week installing the exhibits!

Here's the fabulous Victorian museum building with the Fancy Pants banner installed:

Here's Clare just outside the gallery with the fresh new signage:

Tadaaa! Fancy Pants is open! Clare strikes a pose on our super glam red carpet in the middle of the exhibition! We have 1920s fashions to the left, 1930s to the right and 1940s in the end gallery space. 

A few minutes later the gallery space was packed with people!

Here we are chatting to the Mayor of Worcester about the exhibition and how we chose the items for display:

We we lucky enough to be joined by the wonderful Worcester Ukulele Club who went down a treat and had everyone singing along. They played a super set of 1920s-40s classics on the balcony: 

There's a snippet from instagram of their performance HERE.

One of our favourite dresses in the 1930s section, a green chiffon with heavily appliquéd and embroidered sleeves and neckline:

Clare looking fit for a film premiere in her 70s-does-30s deco glam dress!

The 1940s section with some CC41/utility fashions and smattering of wartime glam:

And here we are in a final pose amongst some of the 1930s fashion exhibits!

So Fancy Pants: A Celebration of Style 1920-1945 is now officially open and on until Saturday 13th September. We hope you can visit and do let us know what you think!

We'll be posting some behind the scenes action from our set up week as well as more vintage fashion posts, plus news and events. We have 1940s fashion show on Saturday 9th August as part of the Worcester Festival, so look out for more info and details coming up about that!

A massive thank you to everyone who came out to our opening party and special thanks to the Worcester Ukulele Club for providing the perfect soundtrack to the evening! Huge thanks to Ron who built the brilliant displays and really brought the exhibits to life and to Vickie and Maggie for all their hard work providing all the cocktails and canapés!

More soon!