1. Introduction: Considering the Ordinary Extraordinary (Bethan Bide, University of Leeds, UK, Jade Halbert, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Liz Tregenza, Colchester Museums, UK) Part One: Methodologies for the Study of Everyday Fashion 2. Innovation and Imitation: Urban Fashion Among the Lower Classes, 1550-1650 (Sophie Pitman, Aalto University, Finland) Object Biography : 1750s fabric swatch and ''counterfeit fashion'' (John Styles, University of Hertfordshire, UK) 3. Accidental Remainders: Working Men''s Fashion in National Museums Scotland c.1750-1950 (Emily Taylor, National Museums Scotland, UK) Object Biography : Hidden labour in a refashioned gown dating from 1770 (Vanessa Jones, Leeds City Museum, UK) 4. Uncovering Female Labour in the Ready-Made Blouse Manufacturing Network, 1909-1919 (Suzanne Rowland, University of Brighton, UK) Object Biography : 1930s blouse made by a Jewish émigré to London (Lucie Whitmore, Museum of London, UK) 5. Female Workwear of the First World War: Developing a Methodology to Reveal the Market for Everyday Factory ''Fashion'' (Jenny Richardson, Independent) Object Biography : World War Two Utility swimsuit (Ciara Phipps, Southend Museums Service, UK) 6. Making Clothes for the Older Woman: Post-War Pattern Cutting and Dressmaking Home Instruction Texts (Hannah Wroe, University of Lincoln, UK) Object Biography : Dr Fairweather''s Progressive Shoes from the 1920s (Ruth Battersby-Tooke, Norfolk Museums Service, UK) 7.

''Crossing the Boundaries''-Cricket Whites from Old Cloth to New Cloth: Recycling Cloth stories through Communal Knowledge Exchange (Rose Sinclair, Goldsmiths University, UK) Object Biography : 1952 homemade day dress worn by Rosetta Rowley (Natalie Raw, Leeds City Museum, UK) 8. ''I Remember Wearing.'': Memory and Oral History in Fashion Research (Jade Halbert, University of Huddersfield, UK) Object biography : 1930s ready-made printed floral day dress worn by Mrs Emily Tinne (Pauline Rushton, National Museums Liverpool, UK) 9. Wearing History: Vintage Fashion and Embodied Knowledge (Liz Tregenza, Colchester Museums, UK) Object Biography : 1950s household ''pinny'' (Lou Taylor, University of Brighton, UK) Part Two: Histories of Everyday Fashion 10. The Struggle for Authenticity: Recognising the role of Chintz as a Colonial Tool, 1720-1780 (Aditi Khare, University of Alberta, Canada) Object biography : A flannel waistcoat that was worn in an 1836 London burial and excavated by the Museum of London during preparations for Crossrail (Hilary Davidson, University of Sydney, Australia) 11. The Everyday in 18th Century Women''s Sartorial Life-Writing (Serena Dyer, De Montfort University, UK) Object Biography : 1990s denim jeans (Rebecca Unsworth, Birmingham Museums Trust) 12. ''Fustian Jackets, Unshorn Chins, Blistered Hands'': The Fabric of the Chartist Movement, 1837-1848 (Vic Clark, University of Leeds, UK) Object Biography : 1850s Scottish coloured wedding dress (Rebecca Quinton, Glasgow Museums, UK) 13. Travelling Tailors and Shoemakers and the Making of Everyday Clothing in Rural Ireland, c .

1850-1914 (Eliza McKee, Queens University Belfast, UK) Object Biography : (Valerie Wilson, National Museums Northern Ireland) 14. I Am an Ordinary Man: Getting and Wearing Suits in Britain, 1945-1980 (Danielle Sprecher, University of Westminster, UK) Object Biography : Notebook with technical drawings of David Thomas, Welsh country tailor, 1920-1967 (Elen Phillips, St Fagans National Museum of History) 15. A Pocket History: Exploring Object Biography in the Francis Golding Collections (Cyana Madsen, University of the Arts, London, UK) Object Biography : 1970s shoes worn by Bryan Bales (Beatrice Behlen, Museum of London, UK) 16. À la Mode in Maesteg: The Fashion Cultures of South Wales'' Garment Factories, 1945-1965 (Bethan Bide, University of Leeds, UK) Object Biography : Alexon skirt suit made at Alexon''s Welsh factory, c.1969-70 (Shelley Tobin, National Trust) 17. The Birmingham ''Big Four'': 20th Century Clothing Wholesale in the ''City of a Thousand Trades'' (Jenny Gilbert, Black Country Studies Centre) Object Biography : (Chris Breward, National Museums Scotland, UK) 18. Conclusion (Bethan Bide, University of Leeds, Jade Halbert, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Liz Tregenza, Colchester Museums, UK) Bibliography Index.