Straight Shoes Ryedale Folk Museum These decorative shoes show the importance of appearing fashionable when in polite company at a time when women’s feet were preferred to be small and dainty. Each shoe measures just six centimetres across. During the 18th and early...
A Staithes Bonnet Staithes Museum, North Yorkshire It’s quite unusual for a type of headwear to be connected so strongly with a place, but this is exactly what has happened with the Staithes bonnet. The bonnet’s unique design developed for lots of very...
Women’s Land Army Uniform Craven Museum & Gallery, Skipton This somewhat plain but practical outfit, consisting of shirt and breeches, was the ‘Women’s Land Army’ uniform during the Second World War. It was worn between 1942 and 1946 by Mrs...
