Sport, Fashion and Clothing Symposium

Time

Location: The Media Factory, University of Central Lancashire

9.15-9.30

                Registration and Refreshments

9.30-10.40

Session 1:

Speakers:

John Hughson: Introduction

Ann Bailey (Independent) Dressing the football calendar: The clothing industries and English football clubs 1950 -1980

Malcolm MacLean (University of Gloucestershire): ‘Beyond Football and Frocks: Sport, Fashion and the (not so new) Cultural Economy’

10.40-10.50

Break

10.50 – 11.50

Session 2:

Speakers:

Prof John Hughson (University of Central Lancashire) & Kevin Moore (National Football Museum): ‘The hand of God’: the sacred significance of Maradona’s shirt.

Dr Geoff Kohe (University of Worcester): ‘Decorative dashes: Disrobing the fabric of streaking’

11.50 – 12.50

Lunch

12.50 – 2.20

Session 3:

Speakers:

Dr Fiona Skillen (University of Central Lancashire): ‘Sportswomen, Advertising and Clothing in Interwar Britain’

Dr Carol Osborne (Leeds Met): ‘From the ‘tyranny of clothes’ to ‘unwomanly rags’: women climbing, c.1910-1939’

Dr Stacey Pope (University of Bedfordshire): 'You wear the shirt, it's your identity': The importance of sporting costumes for female football and rugby union fans.

2.20– 2.30

Break

2:30 – 4:00

Session 4: Contemporary Fashion and Sport

International Fashion Institute (University of Central Lancashire)

Fashion Promotion and Styling students will explore the relationship between sports and apparel and fashion through a mixture of interviews, fashion design, fashion styling and photography.

4.00

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