On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:09:15 -0500 Dawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking into squeezing in a day in London on our holiday next > spring, and was wondering what's the best place to go spend half a > day looking at costume and clothing related items? I'll probably only > really have time to spend at one location, so I want to make it a good one, > unless there are two quite close to each other. Tower of London? > V&A? Portrait Gallery? Any suggestions?
For costume related stuff in one location, you can't beat the V&A. That should absolutely be your first choice. The other ones are great too, but you won't get much costume stuff at the Tower. The National Portrait Gallery is nice, but generally the subject is more important than their clothing so it's not really great for costume stuff. The Elizabethan and Tudor gallery is really nice, but you can easily see it in less than an hour and it's mostly stuff that you see all the time in books- there's a kick to seeing the portraits in person, but you won't see anything you haven't seen before. London is chock full of great museums and places to visit, but for many of them the costume content is minimal. One of my personal favs is Hampton Court Palace but you can spend a full day there without even trying and the costume content is scattered. With the V&A you get a good costume collection, as well as a needlework/textiles gallery where you can get within an inch of the items and a jewelry gallery that has a fantastic collection of jewels from the Renaissance on. just my tuppence, Karen Seamstrix > > > I'm also looking for a budget-oriented place to sleep, as the flight > I > am planning arrives at Midnight local time and we'll be knackered. > Someplace quiet, clean and comfortable is all we need. We won't be > in it > long enough to want much more than a bed and plumbing. > > > > Dawn > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
