The collection includes evening gowns from the turn of the 20 th century and everyday dresses from the 1860s. The museum wants to display them in January 2016. But it has a lot of work to do and ...

Today Te Papa's textile/costume conservator Sam Gatley will start the process of setting up the 1860s bustle dress onaspecially sized mannequin. Museum manager Paula Gaelic says the 156-year-old ...

she will bring about 30 wedding dresses from different eras to highlight. Her oldest gown in her collection dates to the 1860s. “We look at the distinctive women, the Victorian, the flapper ...

It “conforms to the rules of evening dress,” he said ... the show is Queen Victoria’s black silk bodice from the late 1860s or early 1870s, in part because so little of her clothing ...