A Clothes Encounter

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WHAT do your clothes say about you? Dorman Museum's exhibition Clothing Connections - uses items from the museum's collections to make links between cultures and across time periods through the materials and techniques used to create clothing.

Clothing plays an important role in all societies and cultures. As well as providing practical protection against the extremes of climate, textiles can communicate messages of wealth, social status and religious and ethnic identity through the design and materials used in their manufacture.

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A Clothes Encounter

Choosing clothes is one of the very first ways in which we learn to express ourselves. Through what we wear we not only reveal ...

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