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Seaside Style: Coastal Fashion, Textiles and Costume
Dress Devolution 2 Conference, Falmouth University

9-11 July 2024


Conference theme: Seaside Style: Coastal Fashion, Textiles and Costume

Dress Devolution investigates styles, practices and representations 
around dress and textiles outside of metropolotan contexts.  The beach 
as a liminal space has long been a site of leisured, risque, specialised 
and defiantly un-urban dress and textile parctices which this conference 
aims to explore.

Wardrobes that evolved for holidays, for recuperation, for retirement 
and for rest occupy a specific place in our sartorial lives. Textiles 
have long been influenced by the beach and the sea, whether for work or 
for leisure. On-screen representations of beach, leisure and holiday 
activity produce unique costuming opportunities and challenges.

For those who live in the beach’s proximity, visit briefly, or merely 
view from afar, textiles and clothing here bear their own particular 
significance. For this, our second Dress Devolution conference, we 
welcome papers that explore the beach and the sea in the context of 
dress, costume and textiles, past and present. From beach pyjamas to the 
fisherman’s Gansey; from sport to industry to art, we look forward to 
inspiring research around coastal spaces.

The conference is supported by the Fashion and Textiles Institute at 
Falmouth University and will take place at the University’s Penryn 
Campus in Cornwall, UK.

We ask for your proposals for 20 minute presentations on themes that 
might include but are not limited to:

Beach fashion and seaside style
Coastal industries and textiles
The holiday wardrobe
Poolside glamour
Beauty pageants
The riviera flaneur
Small scale production and seaside inspirations
Local supply chains
Traditional textiles
De-centring fashion language
Redefinitions of what it is to be fashionable
New fashion geographies
Online creative communities
Sub culture and communities
Please send a 300 word abstract and brief bio by Tuesday 29 April  to 
the following email address:

E: (dressdevolution /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)

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