A visit with added fashion ...

[kazzy_cee]

Today the weather was humid, overcast and 26C/79F in London where I headed on the train with a friend to see their exhibition: Out Shopping: The Dresses of Marion and Maud Sambourne (1880-1910). The main exhibition is at the Leighton House Museum in Holland Park - which I have visited several times, but my friend had never been to it

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[kathyh]

We went to Leighton House with friends two weeks ago and loved it. The exhibition of dresses was a delightful bonus though we didn’t have time to go to the Linley Sambourne House. We certainly plan to go there another time. Lovely photos!

[kazzy_cee]

I am always happy to go to Leighton House - there is always something I've missed before and I love sitting outside in the garden (which feels like the countryside in the middle of London!). The Linley Sambourne House is much smaller in comparison, and they only had one dress - but still worth a quick visit just to see how people really lived in Victorian decor!

[pondhopper]

I've never been to Leighton House...what a lovely place with exquisite decor!
The dress exhibition is fascinating and the dresses are wonderful...how well the upper class lived! LOL
Seriously, I do love exhibitions like this.

I enjoyed looking at the map of all the shops and dressmakers.

[kazzy_cee]

Leighton House is lovely - I hope you clicked my link to the previous post. The only thing that makes me feel slightly uncomfortable is that most of the tiling should not be over here - it's beautiful, and I'm grateful I can see it, but it should be in the original buildings IMO. It's quite astonishing what was sold to (or acquired by) British people back in the day...!

I loved the map. There are names of shops that my grandmother was very familiar with, and I vaguely remember being around when I was very small.

[pondhopper]

I did click the link! The house is magnificent...except the bedroom. LOL
The tiles should indeed be in their original places but it was a time when much "borrowing" was done. There is a palace here in Sevilla where many of the floors are real Roman mosaics. If you were wealthy or of the nobility you got away with a lot.

[kazzy_cee]

Yes, I agree - a lot of Roman mosaics also ended up in jewellery. I suppose it just wasn't considered as important to protect them (and leave them where they were) as it is these days.

[heleninwales]

Travel in London is so easy with so many different routes to choose from. Here, with buses only once every 2 hours, travel on public transport has to be carefully planned.

[kazzy_cee]

Which is why we stayed in Zone 6 of Greater London when we moved. Outside of here the transport is really difficult. Most people drive in to us to travel to London.

[curiouswombat]

What a lovely day. I do love costume galleries, large or small.

[kazzy_cee]

The dresses are amazing as they have been saved all these years in the house.

[lblanchard]

I love Maude’s walking outfit. I saw it in the background of the first photo and thought, “ oh, I hope she takes pictures of that!”

[kazzy_cee]

That one was my favourite too - I particularly liked the back of it as it had as much attention to detail as the front.