Pirate flags & wedding gowns: a patchwork of a Victorian life

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In 2016, fashion historian Kate Strasdin was given an extraordinary object – an album of richly coloured and brightly patterned fabric scraps, all collected by one woman across the Victorian age. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, Kate reveals what Anne Sykes’ dress diary can tell us about style, culture and the experiences of ordinary women in the era – and how it led her to poisonous stockings and pirates in Borneo. (Ad) Kate Strasdin is the author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe (Chatto & Windus, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dress-Diary-Mrs-Anne-Sykes/dp/178474381X/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
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0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
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0:32.3	Welcome to the History Extra podcast.
0:35.7	Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.
0:47.7	Imagine if you collected a scrap of fabric to document every important moment in your life. What might be included?
0:56.9	An ivory scrap from a wedding dress or a christening gown, or perhaps a bit of lycra from the shorts
1:02.9	that you ran your first marathon in, or maybe just a bit of Hawaiian shirt from a really great
1:09.0	summer holiday. Well, in the 19th century, an ordinary woman named Mrs. Anne Sykes did exactly that.
1:17.0	And her remarkable album of fabrics is the subject of a new book by the fashion historian Kate
1:22.2	Strasden.
1:23.4	I spoke to Kate to find out more about the historical detective work that it led her to.
1:29.0	So thank you so much for joining me today, Kate, to talk about your new book, The Dress
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