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Arm Candy: 13 Fashion Accessory Museums For Trendsetters
fashion museums introFashion museums are usually all about the dramatic frocks. Fashion accessory museums give the secret stars of the fashion world their moment in the spotlight. Get ready for some serious shoespiration, handbag envy, arm candy… and more.
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shoe musuemBata Shoe Museum. Much like a great wardrobe, surely a survey of accessory museums should also be built from the ground up. From Ferragamo in Florence to clogs in the Netherlands, Europe has the highest density of museums dedicated to shoes. The world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of footwear, however, can be found at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada.
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bag museumThe Museum of Bags and Purses. Handbags are fascinating as fashion accessories, but also as guardians of their owners’ most valuable possessions and intimate secrets. That’s why the Museum of Bags and Purses in Amsterdam looks beyond design to explore the role (hand)bags have played in Western culture, from unisex coin purses in the Middle Ages to today’s It Bags.
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Jewellery museumPforzheim Jewellery Museum. Jewellery collections can be found in art and design museums all over the world. Amazingly, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum claims to be the only one of its kind, dedicated exclusively to and covering the entire history of precious adornments. Located in the German town dubbed City of Gold, it celebrates “5,000 years of jewellery, from antiquity to the present.”
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hat museumGerman Hat Museum. The days of ladies and gentlemen requiring a hat to be impeccably dressed, head to toe, are gone. Still, an elegant, stylish or even slightly eccentric piece of headwear always makes for a bold fashion statement. We defy any visitor to the German Hat Museum, located in a heritage listed factory, to emerge without the deep desire to make hats a fashion staple again. Photo: Daniel Stauch
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glove museumDents Glove Museum. As fashion accessories go, gloves are somewhat old fashioned. Today, fingers are draped in fabric for practical reasons, not for style purposes. Hence, it’s quite appropriate that glove museums, like the one viewable by appointment at glove manufacturer Dents of England, are delightfully old fashioned affairs. They remind us of a time when throwing down the gauntlet or the kid glove treatment were real actions involving finely tailored, beautifully embellished pieces of a gent or lady’s wardrobe.
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fan museumThe Fan Museum. The Fan Museum in London is similarly dedicated to preserving sartorial traditions of past times. The hand fans on display, dating as far back as the 10th century, are of course portable works of art. Exhibitions also illustrate the many functions fans fulfilled over the centuries, above and beyond their practical use as cooling devices. The museum’s setting in a heritage listed building, with an adjacent orangery serving afternoon tea, helps take visitors back to a time when fans were a must-have accessory.
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comb museumComb Museum. Today we mainly think of a comb as a cosmetic tool, and the Swiss Hair and Comb Museum has several of those on show. However, it also serves up plenty of reminders that ornate combs were once found in every elegant jewellery box. Made from tortoiseshell, ivory or fine metals, carved, engraved and bedazzled, they helped secure updos at a time when no self-respecting lady would be caught with her hair down.
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button museumButton Museum. Buttons are somewhat underappreciated. Although they often literally hold an outfit together and can figuratively elevate a design, they are rarely considered as fashion accessories in their own right. The Button Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut shines a light on both the art and craft of the oft overlooked fastenings. The collection consists of buttons hand- and machine-made in the town, as well as historical items from all over the world.
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lipstick museumLipstick Museum. Lipstick isn’t just a blend of pigments, lipids and emollients. It’s as much about the packaging, the woman who wears it and the marks she leaves on the rims of glasses, napkins, and kissed cheeks. That’s why the Lipstick Museum in Berlin is dedicated not only to the actual product, but to beautiful lipstick cases, elaborate lipstick ads, and lipstick prints made by fabulous divas.
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lace museumLace Museum. Lace doesn’t qualify as an accessory per se, but the fact that there are several museums dedicated exclusively to lace and several more that carry extensive lace collections is ample proof that the delicate threadwork deserves to be seen as its own art form. At the Textile Museum in St. Gallen, once the world centre of lace production, countless designs and patterns can be admired in the extensive textile library.
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umbrella museumUmbrella and Parasol Museum. “They don’t make ’em like they used to” is a statement that applies to many of the fashion accessories worthy of their own museums. Umbrellas, however, seem to have suffered particularly over the years, going from the exquisite, ornate, handmade works of wearable art on display at this Italian museum to unattractive, utilitarian pieces of plastic. Parasols, the umbrella’s fair-weather sisters, have fared even worse, all but eradicated thanks to fashionable tans and sunscreen from a tube.
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umbrella cover museumUmbrella Cover Museum. If a museum dedicated to umbrellas and parasols isn’t quite niche enough for you, may we point you in the direction of the Umbrella Cover Museum. Granted, the small shack displaying the personal umbrella cover collection of Nancy Hoffman isn’t a museum in the traditional sense. Instead, visitors find a delightfully presented, enthusiastically annotated, surprisingly large and diverse range of objects that most people have probably barely considered worthy of attention, never mind museum-worthy.
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