Qualla: Fashion Museum, Bath https://qualla.com/fashion-museum-bath en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/k/fashion-museum-bath-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fashion Museum, Bath https://qualla.com/fashion-museum-bath Fashion Museum, Bath: Introduction https://qualla.com/fashion-museum-bath/ Photo credit Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0. Doris Langley Moore could not stop collecting clothes. She began in the 1920s by rescuing Victorian dresses that her contemporaries were cheerfully throwing on the bonfire of the new century, and by 1963 she had assembled the largest private fashion collection in Britain. That year she gave it - all of it - to the city of Bath. The collection now holds more than 100,000 objects, from embroidered shirts and gloves of the late sixteenth century to runway pieces from last season, and for decades it lived in the elegant Georgian rooms of Bath's Assembly Rooms. Then, in March 2023, it had to move.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/k/fashion-museum-bath-wp/gcnk-fashion-museum-bath-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fashion Museum, Bath: One Woman's Collection https://qualla.com/fashion-museum-bath/ Photo credit Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0. Doris Langley Moore - novelist, biographer of Byron, ballet aficionado, costume designer - was an unusual figure even by mid-century British standards. She designed the costumes for several British films, wrote serious literary criticism, and quietly built up a body of historical...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/k/fashion-museum-bath-wp/gcnk-fashion-museum-bath-one-womans-collection.mp3 0:06 2 full Fashion Museum, Bath: Six Centuries of Clothing https://qualla.com/fashion-museum-bath/ Photo credit Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0. The collection runs from the late sixteenth century to the present. The earliest items are embroidered linen shirts and supple leather gloves - the kinds of things that survived because they were tucked into family chests and forgotten, the gloves still smelling faintly of the he...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/k/fashion-museum-bath-wp/gcnk-fashion-museum-bath-six-centuries-of-clothing.mp3 0:06 3 full Fashion Museum, Bath: Leaving the Assembly Rooms https://qualla.com/fashion-museum-bath/ Photo credit Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0. From 1963 to 2023 the museum lived in the basement and lower floors of the Bath Assembly Rooms - the John Wood the Younger building of 1771 where Georgian Bath had once danced, played cards, taken tea and conducted the unmarried business of finding a husband. It was a fitting hom...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/k/fashion-museum-bath-wp/gcnk-fashion-museum-bath-leaving-the-assembly-rooms.mp3 0:06 4 full Fashion Museum, Bath: An Interim Home in Warminster https://qualla.com/fashion-museum-bath/ Photo credit Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0. While the Old Post Office is prepared, the collection moved to an unexpected interim home: the headquarters of Dent's, the luxury glovemakers in Warminster. Dent's have been making fine leather gloves since 1777, and their building offered both the climate control and the sympath...

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