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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...
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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...
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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....
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Hull History: An Introduction To The House of Mirelle Locations.
Listen and watch The Locations on YouTube Covering the years between 1938 and 1978 it’s free for you to listen to and share. Learn about its place in the history of fashion and how Hull shaped its success. The House of Mirelle, Hull’s famous fashion house is fondly remembered...
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Fashion History: Girls Girls Girls Shows Life as a Model in the Early 1960s
There was another “Girls! Girls! Girls!” in the early 1960s. 1962 audiences watched Elvis swing his pelvis on the beaches of Hawaii making Return to Sender a number 1 hit. A year before British filmmaker Michael Winner released a lesser known version of the same name. Available now on Sky...
Fashion History: What’s a Workroom? An Introduction For Non-Sewers
For non-sewers a Workroom might be hard to visualise. You’ll probably know a needle when you see it and recognise a sewing machine but after that it becomes fuzzy and unclear. We’re here to help… Here’s our intro to a sewing Workroom… Just as people go to the office...
Dress Collection
The Mirelle Dress Collection has examples of clothing bought, sold, made or worn there. Items in the Collection are from across the years it was open – 1938 to 1978. Some of the Collection is in photograph form others are real-life examples. We also have drawings for clothes made...
Fashion History: Charles Worth, IncSoc and the Legacy Of Couture.
Shopping expeditions to the high street or browsing online to buy that must-have pair of shoes is far away from the couture shopping experience. “Couture” or hand-made clothing made to an individual’s requirements is every bit as glamorous as it sounds and its history is not entirely French. Although...
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Fashion History: 1970s Brightly Coloured Elka Couture Dress
We’re very lucky to have a new donation we thought you’d love to see, bet your eyes are popping at how gorgeous it is! The story about how it came into our hands is true of how many vintage clothes end up in people’s wardrobes, a happy accident looking...
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...
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Fashion History: The Silk Route – Secret WW2 Escape and Evade Maps Used To Make Clothes
World War II was a time of extaordinary hardship at home and abroad, millions fighting against Axis forces across the world. But it was also a time of great ingenuity, no more so when the British Government equipped men to do their jobs by using maps printed on silk....
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Fashion History: Think Pink! The Colour of the 1950s
(Our post has clips from two 1950s musicals. Plug in your headphones or turn your computer up loud to enjoy the songs-of-the-day.) Cover image. Marilyn Monroe, 1952. Bang on trend! Think Pink! sang the cast of Funny Face, the 1957 film starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Hepburn was...
Guess The Year With Our Fashion History Game !
Are you a true fashionista ! Take a walk down memory lane with our fun fashion history quiz Below are fifteen fine examples of Vintage fashion Can you guess the year… Are you a true fashion history fashionista? Head over to our Facebook page to have...
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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...
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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...
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Book Review: Life In Hull From Then Till Now by Kay Pearson: A Fascinating Look Back on a Hull Women’s Life.
Kay Pearson loved music throughout her life, playing piano in music halls, theatre, dance halls and people’s homes. Her book was published in 1978 after a feature about her life in the Hull Daily Mail. She was asked to finish the book, people as tickled by her story as...
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Hull Fashion History: What Was Great About 1978!
The 1970s was a decade of fashion extremes…. Floaty fashions of the post-hippy culture mixed with stomping platforms and glam rock but by 1978 when the House of Mirelle closed every inspiration was up for grabs. Fashion design was diverse, streetwise and truly international. By mid 1978 tailoring,...
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Fashion History: Mr Mintz of Linda Leigh Designs For The Fuller Figure
How curvy ladies were designed for in Fashion History …. The commentator of this British Pathe film points out that it’s nice to see women who aren’t entirely sylph like on the catwalk. 1950s Fashion You would be forgiven for thinking that fashion of the 1950s was all about...
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Hull History: May 1975 Princess Anne’s Modern Wedding Dress Designed By Maureen Baker Comes To Hull
Everyone loves a royal wedding but did you know Princess Anne’s has a special connection to Hull….. The wedding of Princess Anne to Captain Mark Phillips The marriage of Princess Anne on 14th November 1973 to Captain Mark Phillips was an occasion celebrated by the entire nation. Norman Hartnell ...
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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...