Discovering Britain’s cultural tapestry at UAL’s folk costume exhibition

A horse’s skull on a pole sits in a room with pearly queens and morris dancers as part of an exhibition looking at Britain’s rich traditions of folk dance.The exhibition in the London College of Fashion is a brisk visit to the world of carnivals and dances, and not just olde England, but the 1970s restorations of lost traditions and modern interpretations that mix in multicultural influences.
It’s a mix of showing off traditional dance costumes as works of creative art and tell