Research Mid-Century Youth Fashion, Brisbane ‘Bodgie’ Style Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 2 March 1952, 5 'Fashion: Bodgie Styles for Spring', Pix (Sydney), 14…Melissa BellantaMay 27, 2024
Research Harry Guinsberg’s lingerie-look shirts Born in Carlton, Melbourne, in 1902 and dying in Brisbane in 1972, the Queensland shirtmaker…Melissa BellantaMay 23, 2024
Research Suits and belonging in modern Australian history In June 2023, I gave an interview about the Australian history of the three-piece suit…Melissa BellantaFebruary 5, 2024
Uncategorized Behind the Zip: An Australian Drag King Exhibition The stage in the basement of the Imperial Erskineville was overtaken by eight legendary Australian…Melissa BellantaFebruary 20, 2023
Research Eyes on the ties Recently, the new Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather – neatly attired in a suit and shirt…Lorinda CramerAugust 18, 2022
Research A high-maintenance masculine fashion Tropical whites in early twentieth-century Darwin and Broome Among many striking early twentieth-century photographs of…Melissa BellantaAugust 1, 2022
Research Suits that ‘Mark the Man’ Our latest article, ‘Clothes Shall Mark the Man’: Wearing Suits in Wartime Australia, 1939–1945, has…Lorinda CramerFebruary 17, 2022
Research The rise and rise of denim jeans: Part 2 Yesterday I had a chat to Libbi Gore on her program, This Weekend Life on…Lorinda CramerNovember 14, 2021
Research ‘Commonsense comfort’: Dressing for Australia’s climate In November 1922, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper published a letter written by Emily Bennett, Honorary…Lorinda CramerNovember 9, 2021
Research The Australian scent of tweed We all know that we feel our clothes – when they’re too tight around the…Lorinda CramerNovember 5, 2021