Photos wanted: Wedding dress project - Victoria & Albert Museum

[Elizabeth Herts]

My daughter Pippa (PLL) phoned this evening to let me know that the Victoria and Albert Museum is asking for photos of wedding dresses through the years.

They are making a collection of photos and I think she said they will use the photos they receive to track the history of wedding dresses and to help as a dating aid.

I can't find the link at the minute, but either I or Pippa will put it up tomorrow. She is working late tonight (V&A close at 10 pm on Fridays) so she isn't on line this evening.

I thought this would be of particular interest to our members, as we often have requests for the year of a photo from the clothes worn. The photos they collect should be extremely interesting.

I'll give extra information later.

[Elizabeth Herts]

Daughter just phoned to give me the link:

Wedding fashion | Victoria and Albert Museum

It looks very interesting - off for a read!

They are adding photos all the time to periods/decades. It will be great when people have sent in their pics! A job to do over the next few weeks.

An exhibition of wedding dresses is being held in 2011.

[Elaine]

Thanks for that, just added my nan, Hilda Ward 1920's section. Really easy to do
Elaine

[frostbarter]

Just had a look, I will sort mine out and post them tomorrow. It will be great to see all the different fashions.

Barbara

[samesizedfeet]

Oooooh - that's fab. Will be great once they get more added

My favourite so far is Ethel Broom in the 1920s section. Thought my taste would be more 40s/50 but there's only a couple from that era so far

[Elizabeth Herts]

It would be great if lots of people add their photos. I have a few to add when I get organised next week.

I'm looking forward to the exhibition in 2011.

[Jill on the A272]

Me too...recently visited the "Hats" exhibition and love anything like that. ("Tiaras" a few years back was just incredible)

[Gail Durbin]

Hi Elizabeth and colleagues, I manage the website at the V&A (as well as researching my family hitory in Nailsea) and I was very pleased you have picked up on this new site. We would really welcome contributions. Can you recommend any other sites (or even other places on this one) where I could alert people to the fact we need contributions? I am in touch with the FFHS. Where else should I go? Are there active family history blogs I should try? All suggestions very welcome.

[Elizabeth Herts]

Gail, Welcome to Family Tree Forum, it's great to hear from you!

My daughter alerted me as she works at the V&A.

There must be other websites you can contact for contributions. I'll put my thinking cap on and perhaps other members will come up with suggestions.

Perhaps we could alter the title of this thread and add "Photos wanted" or something similar?

[Jill on the A272]

I've added the V&A link to a couple of other forums I belong to.

[Elizabeth Herts]

Gail - Have you seen this section of our Wiki?

Wedding Attire - Family Tree Forum

We have also had a thread run on the general board where members submitted photos of weddings. You could post an appeal on there also (I mean on the general board, not the thread). I think it is in the photo section - see the drop-down menu for forums.

[Gail Durbin]

Elizabeth, if you were able to alter the thread title that would be very good. I see we have had some wondeful contributions from the Burnley area. Since we do not publish the name of the contributor I am unable to thank the person who put them there, but if it was any of you, they are really appreciated. I loved the hand tinted ones. I have a small colection of hand tinted photographs, mainly from the 30's and 40's, several of which are wdddings but all unfortunately anonymous.

[Elaine ..Spain]

Welcome to the forum - I hope some of our members can help with your project. I'll look through my own photos later today and try to add a couple.

This is the thread on our General forum that Elizabeth was referring to - might be worth your while adding an appeal to it.

http://www.familytreeforum.com/photos/46675-wedding-photos.html

[Jill on the A272]

Gail - the Burnley ones are from a fellow member of one of the forums I posted the link on. Another lady from the area said the site crashed 4 times and she gave up. I added one and had no trouble, (but I'm in Sussex)

[tinkerbe]

i posted on a few women forums i use

hope some comes of it

but i was thinking
about how anyone would feel if their wedding when on there with pic taken by a guest at the wedding ?

[Jeanie with one n.]

Where does this stand with copywrite issues?

[Jill on the A272]

There are terms and conditions somewhere on the website re copyright. All the ones I've submitted are 80+ years old.

[Elaine ..Spain]

Where does this stand with copywrite issues?

You need to read the Terms and Conditions on the V&A website. When you submit your photos you will need to agree to these.
Terms and conditions | Victoria and Albert Museum

[Gail Durbin]

I was sorry to hear from Jill that someone had found the site crashed. This is the first technical failure I have heard of and I have reported it to out technical manager.
Thank you for your suggestions and help with spearding the news of the site. We have now had photographs from about 80 weddings which seems good for the first week. Thank you for your interest.

[Jill on the A272]

Names for couples in this project are now getting picked up by Google, just idly googled the name of my great uncle and his wife and up popped the 1933 photo I had submitted.