A Christmas treat for Exeter citizens
04 December 2010
A visit to the fashion exhibition at Killerton, Elegance: two hundred years of dressing to impress, will give you some great ideas for festive dress and throughout December Exeter residents can go for free.
Free entry
All that Exeter residents need do is add their postcode to a special voucher in the winter edition of the Exeter Citizen, the city council’s quarterly newspaper, and present it at the Killerton reception.
Elegance
The exhibition includes a selection of elegant fashions for men and women showing how people have dressed to impress for all occasions from the 1770s to the 1970s. The exhibition explores ideas about clothing etiquette and aims to demonstrate how changing tastes have affected what we regard as elegant. Luxurious accessories and children’s clothes are also displayed and there are replica costumes to try on.
Elegance is a joint production by Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and the National Trust combining the Killerton House fashion collection with fashion plates, photographs and magazines from RAMM’s costume collection.
Killerton
Killerton, a fine 18th century house and glorious landscape garden surrounded by parkland, is open 2 to 4pm from 4 to 23 December. Visit http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-killerton or call 01392 881345 for further details
