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Dissertation
I was finding it quite a struggle to write down and explain what I wanted to write about in my dissertation, but with help from my tutors and a bit more confidence in what I'm interested in i was able to overcome this. My dissertation looks at how we see freak shows and performers of the 20th century through 21st century eyes, and how our views have changed through the years. I really enjoy this field of research as it fits in really well with my Daisy and Violet Hilton project. It is also a little bit unusual so the reader should enjoy the subject.
I requested some very specialist books from the British Library and these have been a massive help to me with exploring the history of circus's etc.

Sewing
My corsets are coming along well as i dyed up the second one on Friday and left it to dry over the weekend. I was really annoyed when it came to dying it as we had run out of the dye i needed! I got over this though pretty fast as i did some samples of a blue pigment which came out really nice, and decided it would look quite effective to have two slightly different corsets but to keep everything else very similar.
I need to now finish the costumes construction and work on the embroidery which I will be adding to the corset.
I have started to machine together Becky's sequin jacket and it has been really hard to sew! so this in its self has been a big learning process on how to manage the fabric and make it do what you want it to.