The Fashion Museum is on the move Visit us before we leave the Assembly Rooms on 30 October 2022.

Others saw little issue with the ad, and that the controversy was the result of people being oversensitive. This 1921 clipping from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, with story and drawings by Marguerite Martyn, represents the saturation newspaper coverage given to society women at a fashionable dance. A person cannot have a fashion by oneself, but for something to be defined as fashion, there needs to be dissemination and followers. This dissemination can take several forms; from the top-down (“trickle-down”) to bottom-up (“bubble up/trickle-up”), or transversally across cultures and through viral memes and media (“trickle-across”). Fashions may vary considerably within a …