What Pepys Wore

"I must go handsomely, whatever it cost me..."

- Samuel Pepys

Fashion survives both plague and fire! Join us in the 1660s as we consign Cromwell's sober clothes to oblivion and transform a modest modern gentleman into a fantastical fop, using periwig, perfume and Pepys.

Lavishly costumed and full of most excellent anecdotes, Restoration is a unique opportunity to visit the splendid new era of speculation, spectacles and coffee house gossip, to discover exactly what a man of fashion should be wearing.

 

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