Workshop 2
Agency and Control.
V&A
8 June 2022
What are the power dynamics between children and adults in relation to dress? How can we uncover intergenerational relations, including in past eras? How do the answers to these questions depend on children’s ages, social and cultural backgrounds, and other factors? Abstracts and programme are available at this link.
Speakers
Julie Blanchard-Emmerson (University for the Creative Arts)
Katy Canales (Young V&A)
Nuno Ferreira and Maria Moscati (University of Sussex)
Jennifer Farley Gordon (Iowa State University)
Ben Hinson (V&A)
Jane Pilcher (Nottingham Trent University)
Clare Rose
Annamari Vänskä (Aalto University)
Ryan Mario Yasin (Petit Pli)
Presentations
The papers below were delivered at the workshop. Thanks to Oscar Fouda for filming and to the presenters for agreeing to share their work.
Julie Blanchard-Emmerson discusses how pre-teen girls in Britain use fashion to negotiate family, femininity, and growing up.
Katy Canales shares the role fashion will play in the redevelopment of the Young V&A.
Nuno Ferreira and Maria Moscati explore the intersection between school uniform and children's right to self-expression, with particular attention to the case Begum v Denbigh High School.
Ben Hinson examines apotropaic designs on children's garments found during archeological digs in Egypt.
Jane Pilcher locates children's clothing within frameworks of consumption, me-making, and power.
Clare Rose scrutinizes how mothers provided children with clothing in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Ryan Mario Yasin introduces Petit Pli, the pioneering eco-friendly children's clothing company he founded and directs.
Banner image: Gabriel Xavier Montaut D’Oleron, hand-coloured fashion engraving showing woman's day dress and bonnet and small boy's outfit (detail], ca. 1833. V&A, accession number E.22396:550-1957.