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Costume

Costume
1936 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tudor Rose is a 1936 British film directed by Robert Stevenson and starred Nora Pilbeam as Lady Jane Grey and John Mills as Lord Dudley. The costumes were designed by Joe Strassner.

The British Film Institute (BFI) acquired its costume collection for display at the Museum of the Moving Image, which existed on the South Bank in London between 1988 and 1999. The collection is made up of British, European, American and Japanese films and covers the period from the silent film era to the mid-1990s. It contains a wealth of historic and significant film costumes worn by major performers and designed by some of the 20th century’s most important film costume designers. The collection was transferred to the V&A in 2015.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleCostume (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Cotton and velvet embellished with couched decorative braid
Brief description
Costume worn in the film Tudor Rose, 1936
Physical description
Tawny brown collarless doublet with hanging sleeves. Cotton velvet ground trimmed with bands of pale brown cotton at the centre front opening and collar. Patterns and detailing have been added to these panels of cotton using lines of braid which has been couched in place.
Dimensions
  • Collar to hem length: 86cm (approximate)
  • Across shoulders width: 61cm (approximate)
Credit line
Given by the British Film Institute
Summary
Tudor Rose is a 1936 British film directed by Robert Stevenson and starred Nora Pilbeam as Lady Jane Grey and John Mills as Lord Dudley. The costumes were designed by Joe Strassner.

The British Film Institute (BFI) acquired its costume collection for display at the Museum of the Moving Image, which existed on the South Bank in London between 1988 and 1999. The collection is made up of British, European, American and Japanese films and covers the period from the silent film era to the mid-1990s. It contains a wealth of historic and significant film costumes worn by major performers and designed by some of the 20th century’s most important film costume designers. The collection was transferred to the V&A in 2015.
Collection
Accession number
S.1658-2015

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Record createdMay 29, 2015
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