Refashioning and redress : conserving and displaying dress

Introduction: interactions of meaning and matter / Dinah D. Eastop and Mary M. Brooks -- Reflecting absence and presence: displaying dress of known individuals / Mary M. Brooks -- Conserving an ainu robe within the framework of Japan's cultural property preservation policy / Mie Ishii -- "Wrapped in country": conserving and representing possum-skin cloaks as in/tangible heritage / Henry L. Atkinson, Vicki Couzens, Lee Darroch, Genevieve Grieves, Samantha Hamilton, Holly Jones-Amin, Mandy Nicholson, and Amanda Reynolds -- Kahu ora: living cloaks, living culture / Rangi Te Kanawa, Awhina Tamarapa, and Anne Peranteau -- Preserving and displaying archaeological garments via pressure mounting / Anja Bayer -- The conservation and display of the Tahitian mourner's costume at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford / Jeremy S. Uden, Heather M. Richardson, and Rachael E. Lee -- Dress in the limelight: the conservation and display of Ellen Terry's "beetle-wing" dress at Smallhythe Place / Emma Slocombe and Zenzie Tinker -- Making sense of a fragmentary coat found concealed within a building / Kathryn Gill -- Back to black: conservation of a 1900s ensemble via replication and web display (replicar) / Teresa Cristina Toledo de Paula -- Concepts in practice: collaborative approaches in developing the Bowes Museum's Fashion and Textile Gallery / Claire Gresswell, Joanna Hashagen, and Janet Wood -- A delicate balance: ethics and aesthetics at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Sarah Scaturro and Joyce Fung -- Fashion as art: dressed to kill: 100 years of fashion / Micheline Ford and Roger Leong -- Radicalizing the representation of fashion: Alexander McQueen at the V&A, 1999-2015 / Claire Wilcox -- Peopling the pleasure garden: creating an immersive display at the Museum of London / Beatrice Behlen and Christine Supianek-Chassay -- Dramatic effects on a static stage: Cantonese opera costumes at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum / Evita So Yeung and Angela Yuenkuen Cheung -- Conserving damage: clothing worn by Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi at the time of their assassinations / Kristin Phillips -- Moving forward together / Bianca M. du Mortier and Suzan Meijer.