The Victoria and Albert Museum holds over 2 million objects dating back over 5,000 years. The V&A Museum has everything from paintings in various styles from several different periods/ times to sculptures in the present day. The V&A was built and opened in 1852 then moved to where it is today in 1857 on Exhibition Road. Queen Victoria had the name changed from the South Kensington Museum to commemorate and recognize all the work that she and her husband put into the museum.
One of the items that stood out to me in the theater section of the museum was the costume for Margot Fonteyn in Les Sylphides in the 60s. This costume was an ankle-length, white puffy ballet dress with short sleeves, a pink bundle of flowers mid-chest, and a pink flower crown. On the back of the dress are a small pair of wings sewn onto the mid-back of the dress. The play itself is a romantic shown in two acts, the dress shows that very sweet delicate romance.
I chose this specific costume because it reminded me so much of the dress that we were able to see in The Glass Menagerie that Amy Adams wears towards the end of the show. In that show, Amanda’s character is always talking about her younger days and more specifically about when she would have gentleman callers. She then tells us how the white dress she is wearing was the one that she wore when she first met her husband, Laura, and Tom’s father…more than twenty years ago. The dress in the museum made me think of the “southern belle” style dress because of how similar both were. While the situations in which these dresses would have been worn are very different; the main idea behind them is the same, love.
Theatre in London U of A 
Abby, good connection between this dress and Glass Menagerie!
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