I recently spent a day in the Lace Archive at Nottingham
Trent University doing some research and came across a folio of lace fashions
from the 1930s. It contains reports of the Paris fashion shows written for the
lace manufacturers in Nottingham showing the latest trends. It is all quite
detailed and as well as the report, which includes some sketches, the
correspondent has sent samples of the lace and photographs of it with detailed
measurements. There were also photos of ladies wearing lace fashions at the races.
This type of information was obviously useful to the manufacturers in designing
lace and finding out what the trends for the coming year would be. In fact the
report is marked ‘Confidential’ so it was obviously highly sensitive
information.
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