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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Hull History: Madame Clapham’s 2nd April 1911 visit to 18 Langley Avenue, Surrey
The name ‘Madame Clapham’ is loaded with history. Hull’s famous couturier who made clothes for Norwegian Queen Maude married in Scarborough to the wonderfully named Haigh Clapham, he from Wakefield Yorkshire she from the other side of Britain, Cheltenham, Glos. Initially living in Sculcoates part of Hull where her...
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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...
Hull History: The 1950s and 1960s were Glamorous Times at the New York Hotel
Anlaby Road runs behind Paragon Station, unmissable because the Tower Cinema, one of Hull’s landmarks stands sentry over its past. The history of Anlaby Road includes that of the New York Hotel close to where the Tower stands now. Owned by famed hotelier Frederick – Freddy – Gamble, described...
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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Social History: Husband of Amy Johnson Jim Mollison the Flying Scotsman Commemorated in Surbiton Surrey
Amy Johnson was used to looking at life from a distance of miles. She and her husband Jim Mollison saw the world spread out beneath them as they zoomed from England breaking records for long distance flights. She was famous, so was he. In the 1930s they became the...
75 Years Since the D-Day Landings – We Remember the Legacy of WW2 Today
Southsea, Portsmouth was no different from anywhere else in the country in what it endured during World War 2 but was extraordinary for its role in the D Day landings to liberate Europe from the Nazis. On the shoreline of Southsea beach is the D Day Story, commemorating the...
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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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S.O.S. Give Your Memories Of Hull’s Co-Op BHS and 3 Ships Mural to SAVE OUR SHIPS!
As a child Esther’s father told his daughter stories of the deep sea waters he fished in and the rise and fall of the city of Hull that was their home. Sipping cafe drinks they sat in front of a building so large its front curved all the...
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Retail History: We Remember Edwin Davis on Bond Street Hull
Bulldozers pointing towards Edwin Davis in the centre of Hull makes us consider its legacy. To some the square-shaped red bricks are an eyesore, a defunct relic but for others memories of the iconic landmark are as ingrained as shopping trips with their mothers, walks around the city centre...
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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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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...
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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...