Portrait Detective
Portrait Detective
Essex Street Media
Parramatta’s fashionable lady, 1865
26 minutes Posted Apr 4, 2021 at 10:00 pm.
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Was Governor Bligh’s colonial regime brought to its knees by a fracas over his daughter’s undergarments? And how does this relate to a photograph of a fashionably dressed young woman taken in Parramatta in 1865? All will be revealed as Margot Riley and Cassie Gilmartin discuss the industrial advances of the 1860s and the huge impact these had on women’s fashion. Series finale.