Sport & Fashion Month is back! Join us throughout June in shining a light on the UK's sportswear heritage.
What role has #sportswear played in the story of UK sport? Share your collections, memories, research, and activity using #SportAndFashion
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Know a winter sport website or blog that should be preserved? It takes less than five minutes to nominate. See the call from Helena Byrne at the British Library
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#sportingheritage #winterolympics #SportAndFashion
With the Winter Games behind us and the Paralympic Games in motion, we’re also beginning to think ahead to Sport & Fashion Month in June. Winter sport offers a fascinating lens on design and performance. #sportingheritage #sportandfashion #wintersport
This student-led event brings together researchers, archivists and practitioners.
Call for Papers deadline: 16 March.
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Sport & Fashion Symposium: Call for Papers. With #SportAndFashion Month returning in June, activity is already building across the sector. Sport & Fashion Symposium: Call for Papers. With #SportAndFashion Month returning in June, activity is already building across the sector.
#SportAndFashion courtesy of Fitzwilliam Museum, @romseymill.bsky.social and @cambridgeunited.bsky.social in celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth
'Barnacles of rubber! #Sportswear fashion for cruises from 1933 for this week's #FashionFriday & #GymDay 🥊 🏊♀️ From #Film and #Fashion Scrapbook 1929-1938. #fashionhistory #sportandfashion #sportshistory #sportingheritage @sportingheritage.bsky.social
🥊 The British Fighter Who Made History in Dambe... Luke Leyland. During #SportAndFashion Month, Luke Leyland reached out with a story we had to share.
Looking back at our #SportAndFashion Study Day. Rebecca Shawcross (Northampton Museum) shared how sports footwear has evolved from spiked running shoes to modern trainers, balancing performance, identity & fashion.
Catch up 👉 tinyurl.com/txydaz46
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Talking Kit: Newport County AFC x Goldie Lookin’ Chain
Part of Sport And Fashion Month 2025
As part of our #SportAndFashion celebrations, we’re diving into the world of football, fandom, and fashion with a very special collaboration.
Looking back at our #SportAndFashion Study Day
Sarah Collins (Manchester Fashion Institute) shared her PhD research on fan-led football kit design, utilising personal stories to embed fan identity, heritage, and culture into kit designs. Catch up 👉 tinyurl.com/txydaz46
Looking back at our #SportAndFashion Study Day. Rebecca Shawcross (Northampton Museum) shared how sports footwear has evolved from spiked running shoes to modern trainers, balancing performance, identity & fashion.
Catch up 👉 tinyurl.com/txydaz46
#SportingHeritage
'Sport and Fashion Month combines two areas of study at which DMU truly excels'. Full De Montfort University news story about our recent #SportandFashion event held here on campus in Leicester - www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne... #sportshistory @sportingheritage.bsky.social @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
Looking back at our #SportAndFashion Study Day at DMU! 🏑
Emmy Sale and Shane Smith from @TheHockeyMuseum explored how women’s hockey wear evolved, balancing mobility, modesty, and femininity, including 1930s divided skirts!
Catch up: tinyurl.com/txydaz46
Not ready to say goodbye to #SportAndFashion month? Us neither! Catch up on our Sport And Fashion Webinar with Sporting Heritage's Fran Stovold and panellists: www.sportingheritage.org.uk/content/cate...
✨ A brilliant start to our #SportAndFashion Study Day at DMU with keynote Dana Abdulkarim, the first Muslim hijabi to play for England. Powerful insights on inclusion, identity & sportswear.
Catch up here 👉 tinyurl.com/txydaz46
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We’ve been highlighting #SportAndFashion this month, so we have to mention this photograph from a recent deposit of Newport Swimming Club records at Gwent Archives. We adore this photograph from the early 1930s post-open water swimming! The swimming caps, the costumes and not a dry robe in sight!
As #SportandFashion Month draws to a close, we’re serving up a perfect match for the 1st day of #Wimbledon. Looking back 100 years to 1925, are there any styles you’d still wear today? Stay cool everyone 🍓 🎾
#sportshistory #sportingheritage @sportingheritage.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social
🏅 From Petticoats to Performance Gear: A Century of Olympic Style
@TeamGB kits tell a story of identity, pride & change from Queenie Newall’s 1908 petticoat to Stella McCartney’s 2012 rework of the Union Jack. Explore the evolution 👇
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#SportAndFashion #OlympicStyle
Did you miss our #SportAndFashion webinar, check in out here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=51VZ... #SportAndFashion
🏁 From pit lane to runway, F1’s fashion moment is full throttle.
With 40% of fans now women, brands like Vuitton & Hilfiger are racing to meet the moment.
Fast cars, high fashion, and social change collide.
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DYK #dmuleicester has been home to the #Leicester @ridersbball since 2004 & #FashionDesign since the 1890s! As we wrap up #SportandFashion Month this #FashionFriday, check out these dynamic student #sportswear designs thru the decades #FashionHistory @sportingheritage.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social
A black and white photo of a man in a wheelchair playing lawn bowls. He is wearing a floral shirt and acap. Behind him, another person watches on with a straw hat pushed back on their head, wearing a dark pair of sunglasses.
A black and white photo of three men. One is a wheelchair user and is holding a discus. He is wearing a v-neck jumper and a shirt and tie. Behind him another man leans around his chair, himself wearing a jumper. His cane is resting up against the back of the chair. Behind them both, another man leans on his cane, wearing a loose pair of trousers and a short sleeved shirt.
A black and white photo of a man throwing a ball in front of a crowd of onlookers. He is wearing a white vest and tracksuit bottoms. He is thin, but very muscular. His upper half is blurred in the photo due to the speed he is moving.
A black and white photo of a lawn bowls player leaning forward in her wheelchair. She is wearing a white zip-up jumper. Other players are in the background, one wearing a bobble hat.
For #SportandFashion month we thought we'd share these photos from some early Stoke Mandeville Games! Without the uniform standards of today or modern materials, athletes wore whatever was comfortable.
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Fashion & Fans was a part of a project we did with HLF Funding.
Below are two photographs of the St James Park Crowd, taken 100 years apart.
Are the clothes people are wearing very different?
Are photographs a good way of finding out about the past, and if yes, why is this? Etc.
That's why documenting and preserving it matters. Tag us with #SportAndFashion and share your collection or memory.
🎩 From flapper dresses to bold ’80s prints, Ascot fashion is about more than style, it’s tradition, identity & performance. A brilliant retrospective via @HarpersBazaarUK spotlights a century of race-day looks.
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#SportAndFashion #AscotStyle
Photo of sport-related objects in a Museum display, including a deep navy and white striped football shirt and leather football boots.
#SportAndFashion on display at Redbridge Museum, exploring how clubs and societies – including several sports clubs – sprung up in the borough in the 1900s.
The football shirt is in the colours of Ilford Football Club, dating from 1909, and the boots are from the 1960s ⚽
Group photograph of the Scotland team at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Perth, Australia (Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive, University of Stirling Archives).
A fantastic @sportingheritage.bsky.social #SportAndFashion conservation surgery this morning. Lots of interesting stories and great advice!
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From terraces to textiles 🎽Meet #TheShirtHunter, Peris Hatton, one of the UK’s top football shirt collectors. His book dives into decades of kit design, nostalgia & culture. A must-read for fans & collectors. @toy_toys_shirts
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Football, fashion & found materials ⚽Meet Wrexham’s Adam Jones, a designer stitching sports nostalgia into bold, genderless fashion using football scarves, bar towels & breweriana.
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#SportAndFashion #AdamJones #FootballFashion
