Fashionable Yorkshire – Five Centuries of Style

From Necessity to Luxury: Menswear and the Evolution of Face Coverings during COVID-19
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2025. From Necessity to Luxury: Menswear and the Evolution of Face Coverings during COVID-19. Fashion, Style and Popular Culture.

Determining the Future: Pre-Creation Accessioning and the Documentation of Design Process
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2025. Determining the Future: Pre-Creation Accessioning and the Documentation of Design Process. 4th International Artefacta Conference. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 13 - 14 Feb 2025

Past, Present, Provocation: The Radical Methodology of the Westminster Menswear Archive
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2025. Past, Present, Provocation: The Radical Methodology of the Westminster Menswear Archive. 11th Hellenic Costume Society Conference. Athens, Greece 25 Jan 2025

Umbro 100: Sportswear x Fashion
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2024. Umbro 100: Sportswear x Fashion . Ambika P3, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS 12 - 28 Apr 2024

Exhibiting Menswear
Sprecher, Danielle 2024. Exhibiting Menswear . Locating Menswear Forum. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester 04 - 05 Jul 2024

Westminster Menswear Archive
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2024. Westminster Menswear Archive. Fashion Theory. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2024.2423585

Tailored by Umbro, Tailored by England: Constructing Englishness Through Cut, Fit, and Style
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2024. Tailored by Umbro, Tailored by England: Constructing Englishness Through Cut, Fit, and Style. A Century of Umbro and the Aesthetic of Sporting Englishness. Manchester Metropolitan University 09 Oct 2024

Umbro 100: Sportswear x Fashion
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2024. Umbro 100: Sportswear x Fashion . London Westminster Menswear Archive.

Curatorial Continuum: Symbiotic inspiration between fashion collections and the fashion industry (round table)
Groves, Andrew, Sprecher, Danielle, Beach, Hannah and Hitchcock, Fenella 2024. Curatorial Continuum: Symbiotic inspiration between fashion collections and the fashion industry (round table). Beyond the Blockbuster: Exhibiting Fashion Now. Museum of London Docklands and London College of Fashion 30 - 31 May 2024

Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2024. Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive. London Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Representing Black British Music in the Westminster Menswear Archive
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2023. Representing Black British Music in the Westminster Menswear Archive. UoW Annual Black Music Symposium at the British Library. British Library 20 Oct 2023

Invisible Men in Black
Sprecher, Danielle and Groves, Andrew 2023. Invisible Men in Black. ICOM Costume: International Committee for Museums and Collections of Costume, Fashion and Textiles Annual Meeting 2023. National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh 24 - 27 Sep 2023

Tailored by Umbro: Football, fashion and the construction and reconstruction of Englishness through cut, fit, and style
Sprecher, Danielle and Groves, Andrew 2023. Tailored by Umbro: Football, fashion and the construction and reconstruction of Englishness through cut, fit, and style. 2023 British Society of Sport History Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester 24 - 25 Aug 2023

Linen in Menswear 1800 - present
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2023. Linen in Menswear 1800 - present. in: Camilleri, A. (ed.) Le Lin, fibre de civilisation(s) Paris, France Actes Sud.

I Am an Ordinary Man: Getting and Wearing Suits in Britain 1945-1980
Sprecher, Danielle 2023. I Am an Ordinary Man: Getting and Wearing Suits in Britain 1945-1980. in: Bethan Bide, Jade Halbert and Liz Tregenza (ed.) Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600 London Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Locating Menswear – A Non-Hierarchical Exploration of Place and Community.
Groves, Andrew, Sprecher, Danielle, Jenkinson, Jo and Owen, Paul 2023. Locating Menswear – A Non-Hierarchical Exploration of Place and Community. Dress Devolution. Falmouth University 06 - 07 Jul 2023

The Repositioning of the Football Jersey from the Pitch to the Runway.
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2023. The Repositioning of the Football Jersey from the Pitch to the Runway. International Football History Conference . Hampden Park Stadium, Glasgow 30 Jun - 01 Jul 2023

Curating Semi-Synthetic and Synthetic Fibres and Fabrics 2022
Sprecher, Danielle 2022. Curating Semi-Synthetic and Synthetic Fibres and Fabrics 2022. Dress and Textile Specialists.

The Cut Must Suit the Making: Masculinity, Mass Production and Design in British Menswear Tailoring, 1945-1970
Sprecher, Danielle 2022. The Cut Must Suit the Making: Masculinity, Mass Production and Design in British Menswear Tailoring, 1945-1970. Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear Symposium. V&A Museum 13 - 14 Oct 2022

More than a Uniform: Westminster Menswear Archive
Sprecher, Danielle 2022. More than a Uniform: Westminster Menswear Archive. More than a Uniform: Wrens in Wartime and Beyond. Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre, Royal Museums Greenwich 17 Jun 2022

Westminster Menswear Archive: Objects and Collecting
Sprecher, Danielle 2022. Westminster Menswear Archive: Objects and Collecting. Fashioning the male: on collecting, curating, displaying masculine attire. London College of Fashion 14 May 2022

Book Review: Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Men's Fashion
Sprecher, Danielle 2022. Book Review: Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Men's Fashion. Costume. 56 (1), pp. 142-143. https://doi.org/10.3366/cost.2022.0222

Clothing the Pandemic: A Virtual Exhibition of COVID-19 Face Masks from Around the World
Sprecher, Danielle and Groves, Andrew 2021. Clothing the Pandemic: A Virtual Exhibition of COVID-19 Face Masks from Around the World. 23 Dec 2021

C.P. Library
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2021. C.P. Library. Darwen Library, Lancashire 01 - 30 Oct 2021

Undercover – From Necessity to Luxury: The Evolution of Face Coverings During COVID-19
Groves Andrew and Sprecher, D. 2021. Undercover – From Necessity to Luxury: The Evolution of Face Coverings During COVID-19. Online 11 May - 05 Jun 2021

Book Review: Fur: A Sensitive History
Sprecher, Danielle 2021. Book Review: Fur: A Sensitive History. Journal of Design History. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epab045

‘The men who wear corsets are just ordinary people, Officers, aye and Privates too’: Fragments of biography of a gentleman’s corset in mid-twentieth century Britain
Sprecher, Danielle 2021. ‘The men who wear corsets are just ordinary people, Officers, aye and Privates too’: Fragments of biography of a gentleman’s corset in mid-twentieth century Britain. Sartorial Society Season 4. Out of Sight: Concealed Dress, Dress that Conceals. Online 30 Sep - 09 Dec 2021

Contaminated Objects - Collecting and Exhibiting Face Masks during COVID-19
Sprecher, Danielle and Groves, Andrew 2021. Contaminated Objects - Collecting and Exhibiting Face Masks during COVID-19. Clothing the Pandemic Conference. Online 01 Dec 2021 - 01 Mar 2022 ICOM Costume: ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Costume, Fashion and Textiles.

Undercover: The Migration of Face Coverings During COVID-19
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, Danielle 2021. Undercover: The Migration of Face Coverings During COVID-19. The Many Faces of Migration: An Interdisciplinary Unconference. online 29 - 30 Apr 2021

Undercover
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, D. 2021. Undercover.

Masking Masculinity – An overview of the mask in menswear before and after COVID-19
Groves, Andrew and Sprecher, D. 2021. Masking Masculinity – An overview of the mask in menswear before and after COVID-19. Face Off: The Provocation and Possibilities of Face Masks and Head Coverings. Manchester Metropolitan University 13 - 14 Jan 2021 Manchester Metropolitan University.

Demob Suits: One Uniform for Another? Burtons and the Leeds Multiple Tailors' Production of Men's Demobilization Tailoring after the Second World War
Sprecher, D. 2020. Demob Suits: One Uniform for Another? Burtons and the Leeds Multiple Tailors' Production of Men's Demobilization Tailoring after the Second World War. Costume. 54 (1), pp. 108-130. https://doi.org/10.3366/cost.2020.0145

Invisible Men: An Anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive
Sprecher, Danielle and Groves, Andrew 2019. Invisible Men: An Anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive . Ambika P3, London 24 Oct - 24 Nov 2019

I am an ordinary man: Getting and wearing suits in Britain 1945-1980
Sprecher, D. 2019. I am an ordinary man: Getting and wearing suits in Britain 1945-1980. Everyday Fashion: Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Clothes. University of Huddersfield and University of Leeds 27 - 28 Jun 2019 University of Huddersfield.

Fashion parades - for men only: Multiple tailor Hepworths, designer Hardy Amies and the marketing of men's suits in Britain in the 1960s
Sprecher, D. 2019. Fashion parades - for men only: Multiple tailor Hepworths, designer Hardy Amies and the marketing of men's suits in Britain in the 1960s. Critical Studies in Men's Fashion. 6 (1&2), pp. 161-178. https://doi.org/10.1386/csmf_00010_1

Invisible Men: An Anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive
Groves Andrew and Sprecher, D. 2019. Invisible Men: An Anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive.

Invisible Men Conference
Groves Andrew and Sprecher, D. 2019. Invisible Men Conference . Invisible Men Conference. Ambika P3 29 - 29 Oct 2019

Knitwear in the Westminster Menswear Archive: Building a Collection
Sprecher, D. 2018. Knitwear in the Westminster Menswear Archive: Building a Collection. In the Loop at 10. Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton 19 - 20 Jul 2018 University of Southampton.

The University of Westminster menswear archive: developing a new resource
Sprecher, D. 2017. The University of Westminster menswear archive: developing a new resource. Masculinities Hub Symposium: Masculinities and Archives. London College of Fashion 18 - 18 Nov 2017 London College of Fashion.

Well Dressed Men: From Montague Burton to Topman
Sprecher, D. 2016. Well Dressed Men: From Montague Burton to Topman. in: Selby, Elizabeth (ed.) Moses, Mods and Mr Fish: The Menswear Revolution London Jewish Museum London. pp. 79-88

Fashion for the High Street: The Design and Making of Menswear in Leeds 1945-1980
Sprecher, D. 2016. Fashion for the High Street: The Design and Making of Menswear in Leeds 1945-1980. PhD thesis University of Leeds School of History

Book Review: Advertising Menswear: Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media since 1945
Sprecher, Danielle 2015. Book Review: Advertising Menswear: Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media since 1945. Journal of Design History. 28 (3), pp. 329-330. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epv030

Tailored: A Very British Fashion
Sprecher, D. and Raw, Natalie 2015. Tailored: A Very British Fashion.