A recent article in The Atlantic described The Great Gatsby as ‘a fabulous betrayal of 1920s fashion and this got me thinking about an issue at the heart of historical costume design and an ever present tension for those of us who work in this industry – how far should one go to be historically accurate with […]
Rosie Boylan, Sydney hat maker, talks about Australia’s first cottage craft, the Cabbage Tree Hat. Woven in Australia by first settlers and convicts to protect themselves from the hot Australian sun, the Cabbage Tree hat became the symbol of the ‘new chums’ of early colonial Sydney. As a milliner for stage and screen, I have […]
Passionate about industrial heritage and recently on a trip to Lithgow, NSW I stumbled upon a wonderful collection of Union banners at the State Mine Museum titled “Beneath the Southern Cross”. The rise of industrialism during the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries was cause for pride within the union movement and these giant banners were […]
