It has been three weeks since my fashion class began. After this week, I have only one more week left in the class before beginning my second class. I am extremely fond of everything I’ve learned about fashion in the class. I still am surprised at how similar (if not more lenient) the British way of learning and teaching is compared to the American way. This week, Tuesday, we went on another class field trip to the Museum of London. There, we received more detailed teachings of the historic fashions in London. The museum was better than the previous museums and textbooks because it showed the dresses we looked at in motion. There were videos by the dresses we studied that had animated women in them showing the movements the women made while wearing the dresses. Dresses from the 1800’s especially, had restrictions on movement and the class could see and feel what putting on 19th century dress was like. The museum included context very unique to all other museums the class has been to. It included an indoors park that the elite British could stroll in with beautiful, fancy gowns. This way, we were able to easily picture what wearing the gowns we saw would feel like if we had to stroll in the park with them ( we had a chance to stroll in this museum-made “park” also!). The museum was an interesting and extremely unique experience. And the features mentioned were only a few of the entire experience!
  

After the museum, the class took pictures together as usual and we rode on the train from London back to campus in Falmer (two hours away).

Location: London, England