Night Night : The Clothes We Sleep In

Night Night : The Clothes We Sleep In

A fashion history expert provides a history of night clothes, with live examples from the Huron County Museum's collection.

By Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol

Date and time

Thursday, May 16 · 7 - 8pm EDT

Location

Huron County Museum

110 North Street Goderich, ON N7A 2T8 Canada

About this event

  • 1 hour

From pjs to night caps, chemises to negligees, learn about the clothes we wear to bed and where the styles came from. Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston, costume designer and owner of Pick a Posie Vintage, will lead you through the history of the clothes we sleep in with fun fashion facts and examples from the Huron County Museum's collection. Join us at the Huron County Museum to see the fashion history of nightwear up close.

Jennifer will talk about the evolution of sleepwear in the musuem theatre, and then after a short break we will walk though the current exhibit Sleep In that highlights night clothing, as well as bedroom furniture from the collection. Find out why we wear what we wear to bed, and how nightwear materials and styles have changed and also moved into daywear styles!

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Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol

The Huron County Museum is home to historical and cultural exhibitions, both temporary and permanent.   Thousands of artifacts illustrate the history of both our rural and urban communities in a variety of themes and topics. Gratefully, we continue to accept donations of historical items from members of the local and larger community allowing our collection to grow.

We endeavour to tell the stories of Huron County in a variety of methods on-site, off-site and on-line.