Moore, Doris Langley (1902-1989)

Doris Langley Moore, 1902-1989, photographed around 1935. Doris Langley Moore, 1902-1989, photographed around 1935.

Doris Langley (-Levy) Moore was an important British fashion historian. She founded the Museum of Costume in 1963, which since has been renamed the Fashion Museum, in Bath. She was also an expert on Lord Byron, and in the 1940's wrote the scenario for a ballet, The Quest. 

When studying dress, she insisted on inspecting the garments herself, instead of describing and analysing them from a distance.

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