Category: 1960s History UK

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A Story to Tantalise The Eyes… Welcome to our YouTube channel @houseofmirellehull  Watch ‘The Locations’ below  Tour historic Hull from Victorian times through the present-day and explore key places in fashion history and Hull’s history, the place Mirelle called home. Learn the big names in retail, where the House...

Hull History: An Introduction To The House of Mirelle, The Showroom

The Showroom is now live on our YouTube channel House of Mirelle Hull Subscribe to the channel and hit the bell notification icon to be informed of when all the new videos are uploaded Here’s what’s in it…   Between the 1930s and the 1970s some of the most...

Hull History. The House of Mirelle: An Introduction to the Workroom

  The Workroom is now live on YouTube Subscribe to the channel and hit the bell notification icon to be informed when the next Workroom talk is live. —– Here’s what’s in it…   The sewing Workroom was as important to Mirelle as the clothes sold through its doors....

Fashion History: Researching the House of Mirelle Clothing Collection – A Frank Usher Late 1960s Dress

The House of Mirelle was a fashion house with taste. Over the 40 years it was open customers bought a glittering array of clothes, hats and shoes from some of the most well known labels of the time. The list of what was sold at Mirelle is a roll-call...

Hull Fashion History: Modelling in Hull between 1930s and 1950s and Modelling Today

The life of a fashion model seems impossibly glamorous, endless gorgeous clothes, runways and catwalks and camera flashes popping left right and centre as you go about your job. Models and modelling was present in Hull from the early days, as far back as the 1920s and 1930s. In...

1969 Bunty Annual: The Story of Dressmaking and Sewing In the Classroom

  Bunty was a teen comic grabbed from shelves in the local newsagents between 1958 and 2001. Pages were full of fictional stories for youngsters aged 14 years old and under. In the days before computers took over from pencil, pen and ink the comic strips were hand drawn. Girls...

TV Review: BBC2s Back In Time for the Factory Returns To Womens Working Life in 1968

11 or so ladies walk towards the doors of Valley West wearing an impressive array of 1960s fashions and expectant smiles. They are stepping back in time to experience what working life was like for garment factory workers, ladies who sat at industrial sewing machines for 8 hours at...

Hull Social History: 3 Day Millionaires DVD by Dr Alec Gill and the Cod Wars

“My Dad was a skipper on the trawlers and if he’d had a good catch, he’d take Mum out and spend the money on her,” said Lynn. “Oh! A 3 Day Millionaire,” I said. “A what?” came the reply. “3 Day Millionaire,” I said. When there was no response...

Hull Fashion History 1968 to 1969: The Headscarf Protest, Fashion Inertia and The Years Of Change

The Headscarf Revolutionaries by Brian Lavery had been on the must-read list since the early days researching the House of Mirelle. From information about Hull’s Headscarf Protest I turned to the history of the fishing industry and the Cod Wars. Lavery’s book sketched in the details in a work of...

Hull Fashion History: Perth Australia House Of Mirelle 1950s Wedding Dress

Watch our video on YouTube Do you recognise this wedding dress? Throughout the 1950s Hull newspapers ran adverts selling tickets to emigrate to Australia; the cost of the ticket to this brand new life was £10.00. Australia believed it needed to increase its population to prevent the risk of...

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