Fashion Museum - Bath

Last weekend I went to the Fashion Museum in Bath, formerly known as the Museum of Costume, which had a large collection of historic and contemporary fashion dating back to the 1500's!

In my opinion, the gallery is a nice size in the sense that there's enough there to feel you're not getting robbed for your money but there isn't too much there that you don't know where to look and end up feeling exhausted by the end of it.

It is divided in to a few parts which are separated by a section where all ages can try on Victorian costume including corsets, crinolines, dresses, bonnets and top hats and coats for men. I always find an interactive section really helps bring a gallery to life and keep the viewers interested, whatever age you are!

The gallery ends in a section of the Top Trends of up to date fashion of Spring/Summer 2013 - very impressive!


My only criticism would be that there isn't much on male fashion which suggests that the gallery in quite stereotypical in the sense that 'Fashion is for girls'. Boys wear clothes too!

I bought the book 'Fashion Museum - Treasures' which has detailed photographs of garments in the exhibition - a good alternative if you can't get to Bath. A used copy can be bought for as little as 46p (plus postage) on Amazon at the moment!