Textiles and Dress

Fashion museum

A fashion museum is dedicated to or features a significant collection of accessories or clothing. While there may be some overlap with textile museums, fashion museums focus on what trends in clothing and accessories reveal about the larger cultural, social, and economic values of different historical periods. Although fashion is a broad term that applies to more than just clothing items, these provide tangible examples of trends changing over the years which explains why the term fashion museum is most commonly referring to those featuring clothes. Notable examples include the Costume Museum of Canada, the Fashion Museum, Bath, the Musée Galliera in Paris, the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, and MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp. National museums with significant fashion collections include the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York contains a collection of more than 75,000 costumes and accessories.

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• ▸Head covering for Christian women
• ▸Cairnpapple Hill
• ▸Hijab

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