How are dress fashions evolved? Modern designers find much of their inspira in the costumes of queens and ' of past ages. And in this they have been helped by Miss Eugenie - Richards, a specialist on dress design, costume and history of fashion at Nottingham College of Art.
Miss Richards used to amuse herself by creating and dressing tiny figures in period costumes. A friend saw. her work and realizing its value to modern fashion designers and manufacturers of modern dress fabrics, persuaded her to show the dolls at this year's Ideal Home Exition, More than two hundred of them are on show now, the largest figures being two feet tall and the smallest about six inches. Among them are earls and ladies, serving-men, peasants, courtiers, King Philip of Spain and Queen Elizabeth—all dressed correctly down to the smallest. detail of costume and ornament.
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