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Guest Blog Month, 2021. Style by Design: Fashion Plates of the Olive Matthews Collection, Chertsey Museum. - The Costume Society
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Guest Blog Month, 2021. Style by Design: Fashion Plates of the Olive Matthews Collection, Chertsey Museum. - The Costume Society
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Sources for Research: Olive “Polly” Matthews Stone, Radical Rural Sociologist | Rural Women's Studies
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Fashion in Focus 1600-2009: Treasures from the Olive Matthews Collection: Evans, Grace: 9780956813503: Amazon.com: Books
Chertsey Museum - Friday Frocks: Having explored some fine specimens of outerwear in our last few posts, thoughts now turn to the opposite end of the spectrum; underwear. The Olive Matthews collection
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