Share your favourite vintage photos with us!

Original, old family photographs are one of the best resources for researching everyday fashion history. They can tell such fascinating tales and sometimes throw up some surprises!

That's why we're collecting copies of people's family pictures to create a digital album of photos and memories to help us tell the story of vintage fashion from the 1920s to 1945. They can be from special occasions like weddings or parties, holidays, military or snaps of every day life, as long as they fit into our time frame we'd love to see them!

We already have lots of great photos to choose from but if you'd like to have your photos included in a digital album in our exhibition and see it posted online once the exhibition opens, then all you need to do is email your photos to us. Tell us about the people in the picture, or if you don't know them, tell us what you like about their clothing.

We'd love to hear from you!

Photoshoot - Behind the Scenes

Earlier this week we had a photoshoot at the Museum and Art Gallery for some promotional images for our exhibition. As well as photos of a gorgeous gown from the county collection (which we're currently keeping under wraps!) the museum needed some family friendly images to promote the fun, family aspects that will appeal to children during the Summer holidays.

Our lovely regular shop model Holly stepped in to help us out again and we dressed her in an amazing, original, 1920s velvet, opera cape, worn over a modern 1930s-style dress in a plain, bold colour.

Detail pic of the technicolor dream cape!





We staged a dressing up scene for one set of photos, as at the exhibition will feature a dressing up area for children.





We had a super professional young model Clara for these shots who did a fantastic job, we were very impressed!





The photographer took some super stylish shots utilising the Museum's fantastic staircase:










We can't wait to see the finished results, thanks to everyone involved!

Take Part in Fancy Pants with Your Family's Fashion History!

Saturday 30th November will see the launch of the Memory Box!

Fancy being part of Fancy Pants?! You can contribute to our exhibition 'Fancy Pants: A Celebration of Style 1920 - 1945' by sharing your family photos and memories!

We're looking for family photos depicting fashions from the 1920s to 1945. Copies of photos (please don't bring originals as we can't return them!) can be deposited in the 'Memory Box' at Worcester Museum or in Second Hand Rose, along with a form telling us about the photo and any stories and memories you have of the person or persons in the pic!

We're looking for great examples of period clothing in photos from weddings, parties, everyday wear, wartime fashion, military uniform etc, anything that will help us tell the story of our fashion history from the 1920s to 1945.

The Memory Box will be at Worcester Museum and Art Gallery on Foregate St from Saturday 30th November at our Vintage & Craft Christmas Bazaar! See full details in the photo below. There will also be a box at Second Hand Rose in the Hopmarket from Tuesday 3rd December.

High quality digitised photos can also be emailed to us. Just get in touch and share your stories of former fashion glories!