Album of sketches of women's fashions (1906 - 1907); sketches of women's fashions annotated with dates, dress details and locations (1906 - 1957). There are no sketches dating from 1942 - 1945.
Administrative and Biographical History
Cuthbert Grasemann was a public relations officer for Southern Railway. He was also a keen amateur artist who enjoyed sketching fashionable women's costume in Brussels, Paris and London. He annotated his work with detailed descriptions of the costume and socio-cultural reasons for changes in dress such as the influence of the theatre.
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Citation
V&A Collections, Archive of Art and Design, https://collections.vam.ac.uk/archive/ARC51089