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We were hoping to welcome you a talk by Connie Gray from Gray M.C.A. entitled "20th Century Fashion Illustration: A Genre Rediscovered”. However following advice on the current COVID situation it is with great regret that, yet again, we have had to cancel this event.

See full details. Price Per Person: Member Free, Non Member £10.00

Historically shoes have always been a signifier of status and wealth and the more decorative and difficult to walk in the less functional they become. Today our desire for comfort in shoes, as in clothes, helped along by advances in textile technology, has led to function and fashion becoming more closely aligned.

Who would have thought that today virtually everyone from children taking their first steps to octogenarians trying to stay mobile would be wearing the same type of shoe, the trainer, which started life as a sports shoe. This study day will look at the history of fashionable shoes from Roman times to present day.

A great opportunity to wear your favourite, most outrageous sparkly trainers, impossible heels, or charity shop moccasins!

See full details. Price Per Person: Member £28.00, Non Member £38.00, Lunch £13.00

You are free to bring your own lunch and eat it on the premises if you wish.