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  • Sportswear inventions from the 1890s to the 1940s
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    POP's first collection of sport and activewear costumes was made for a collaboration with The Adventure Syndicate and Mór Diversity to test out and try convertible garment inventions in the Scottish hills. Toiles of all of these inventions had previously...
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  • IWD press coverage
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    The "Women On The Move" film and research article "Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940" were launched on International Women's Day - 8th March 2023. The research received national, regional and specialist coverage in 235...
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  • POP + The Adventure Syndicate
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    POP is very excited to be collaborating with The Adventure Syndicate to make a film about historic women's activewear from the patent archives. We've been running, jumping, climbing, swimming, hiking, cycling, flying, horse-riding, kicking, catching, throwing, leaping and otherwise putting...
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