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Fashion

Nautical Chic, Fashion and Textile museum

22 May 15 – 30 Aug 15, 12:00 AM

Author Amber Jane Butchart's Nautical Chic at the Fashion and Textiles museum

By Helena Kealey on 21/5/2015

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London fashion exhibitions, Nautical Chic by Amber Jane Butchart, Fashion and Textiles Museum
London fashion exhibitions, Nautical Chic by Amber Jane Butchart, Fashion and Textiles Museum
Nautical Chic, Fashion and Textile museum Nautical Chic, Fashion and Textile museum Helena Kealey
Coco Chanel’s very first boutique in 1913 was in seaside resort of Deauville, Normandy, rather than fashionable Paris. Breaking with the large skirts and frills worn during the Belle Eupoque, Chanel's boutique sold long-line sweaters or chandail previously worn by Norman fishermen and simple sea-inspired clothes made from knitted jersey. Within three years, Chanel's nautical inspired fashions were in the pages of both British and American Vogue, thanks in part to Chanel’s sister Antoinette and her aunt Adrienne, who wore Chanel’s open-necked ‘sailor blouse’ around town.
Since then, the looks associated with the sea-side, including the iconic blue and white stripes, have inspired everyone from fashion designer Mary Quant and her thigh-high sailor dress of 1967 to the longer nautical inspired Laura Ashley dresses of the 1980s, right up to Jean Paul Gaultier whose spring/summer 2008 collection capitalised on the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Vivienne Westwood and Tommy Hilfiger.
And now, an exhibition at the Fashion and Textiles museum, based on the book by the same name, Nautical Chic by fashion historian Amber Jame Butchart opens up the history of nautical styles. Not to be missed for anyone interested in the history of fashion. 
Display admission included with Riviera Style Resort and Swimwear Since 1900 exhibition.




What Nautical Chic, Fashion and Textile museum
Where Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey St, London, SE1 3XF | MAP
Nearest tube London Bridge (underground)
When 22 May 15 – 30 Aug 15, 12:00 AM
Price £Included
Website Click here for more information and to book



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    Queen Victoria is sometimes credited as being the first person to try seafaring styles on land. In 1846 she put her four-year-old son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, in a sailor suit to wear aboard the Royal Yacht and wrote: "Bertie put on his sailor's dress… When he appeared, the officers and sailors, who were all assembled on deck to see him, cheered, and seemed delighted," in her diary. 

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