Participant Info
- First Name
- Rebecca
- Last Name
- Olds
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- rebecca@timesmith.co.uk
- Affiliation
- Website URL
- www.timesmith.co.uk
- Keywords
- dress history, fashion history, costume history, textile history, women's history, fashion trades, farment making trades, women in trade, 18th century, 17th century, early modern, England, Britain, Scotland, American Colonies, Virginia, Dutch Republic
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a dress and textile historian with a particular focus on the study of women’s garments (and participation of women in garment-making trades) in England and Scotland in the late seventeenth through late eighteenth centuries. I take an inter-disciplinary approach to object study and test my understanding of period construction techniques through re-creation or re-construction of extant objects held in public and private collections.
I hold a BA (Hons) from the Open University incorporating a collaborative Advanced Undergraduate Diploma in Local History from the University of Oxford. After working as an Intern in the Tailor Shop at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, I am currently completing an MLitt degree in Dress and Textile Histories at the University of Glasgow, UK.
My research interests currently revolve around the production and consumption of fashion by non-elite women in the Scottish Highlands during the long eighteenth century.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @TimesmithDress
- Country Focus
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, England, United Kingdom, United States, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, Economic History, Labor, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Women
