Fashion Museum – Key Stage 2

On your marks, get set, go!

Explore sportswear through the years in our special display.  Discuss fabric choices and create an original design for 2012.  (90 minute activity)

 

Investigating Pattern
A 90-minute art activity session exploring textile patterns from different times. follow the pattern trail, investigate how pattern works in fabric and create a new design for an item of clothing. Great for Individual Needs groups: 1-hour sessions available.

Accessorize

Explore shoes, hats and bags from different times. Examine a range of accessories and produce a design.

 

Down the Decades

Explore fashion from the 20th century in our special displays. Create a fashion design using collage based on your sketches in the exhibition.

 

World War II - 90min session
What did you do in the War?

Assembly Rooms. Pupils will investigate local wartime life using primary and secondary sources in a building devastated by wartime bombing.

 

Try on Replica Victorian sporting costumes.

Learning shoes

Examples from the Accessorize activity made by pupils from Hanford school.

 

Image: evening dress on a display figure, the strapless dress is fitted to the waist with a flared skirt, the fabric is black with large red and white printed flowers

A patterned evening dress from the collection