The Lost Fashion History
of Dublin Tours
Welcome to the Lost Fashion History of Dublin Tours, a series of walks created by fashion historian, Ruth Griffin.
The Lost Fashion History of Dublin Tours are a unique series of tours which explores Dublin's stylish past. Fashion historian Ruth Griffin will bring you on a saunter through the centuries to discover the style of the different quarters of Dublin. Find out more about the places where our most important fashion designers lived and worked, about our trendsetting residents and the histories behind the city's premier shopping streets, Georgian squares, rag-trade and textile districts.
The Lost Fashion History Tours series will return again soon, for more information please contact ruth@ruthgriffin.com
The Lost Fashion History of Grafton & South William Street Tour
Follow in the footsteps of Dublin's makers, manufacturers, milliners, furriers and dressmakers. South William Street was the original garment district of Dublin where fashion sold on the beautiful boulevard of Grafton Street was designed and made. This tour brings you on a fashion journey through the makers and merchants who peopled the street from the 19th right up until now. The grand fashion finale of this tour will be at Om Diva and 2nd Space in The Central Dairy which is home to the newest Irish designers, makers and milliners who people the Creative Quarter today.
Photo Credit: Tra My Ngugen Hoang
The Lost Fashion History of Merrion Square Tour
Merrion Square has been a centre for couture in Dublin for centuries. Whether it was 18th century Lords and Ladies promenading in Parisian silks in their private gardens, the 19th century's bohemians in velvet smoking jackets who gathered at Lady Wilde's salon at Number 1 or the 20th century styles icons; from Jacqueline Kennedy to the Rockefellers who were dressed in the chicest looks from Sybil Connolly at Number 71. Step back in time, rediscover the square's glorious past, and see the studios of couturiers and milliners who are the present day fashion residents.
The Lost Fashion History of the Liberties Tour
The Liberties was the thriving textile district of Dublin from the late 1600s onwards and over the years there has been every kind of textile production in this quarter from silk and linen weavers, leather tanners, cloth dyers and poplin manufacturers. This tour will take a stroll through this fascinating area with a look at where and how textiles were produced in the area from Tailors' Hall, Francis Street, Weaver's Street and Newmarket Square to The National College of Art and Design on Thomas Street where fashion and textiles continues to develop in the city today.
Photo Credit: Tra My Ngugen Hoang
The Lost Fashion History of O’Connell Street Tour
O’Connell Street was originally built as a street to promenade along in the 18th century's finest fashions. This tour looks back at the street's days of splendour from the fashion worn in its 18th century houses to the style to be found in the great Victorian department stores of the time. It also looks at the dramatic events and the strikingly clad revolutionary women who stormed the GPO in 1916 and into the 20th century when O'Connell Street became the place to be seen and snapped in the chicest looks of the day at the stylish cinemas, hotels and ballrooms. This tour also drops in on some present day fashion designers and working studios in the area. You are welcome to finish this tour with a cup of tea in a real tram carriage at The Tram Café on Wolfe Tone Square.
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The Lost Fashion History of South William Street Tour
Follow in the footsteps of Dublin's makers, manufacturers, milliners, furriers and dressmakers. South William Street was the original garment district of Dublin where fashion sold on the beautiful boulevard of Grafton Street was designed and made.
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The Lost Fashion History of Merrion Square Tour
This tour brings you on a fashion journey through the makers and merchants who peopled the street from the 19th right up until now. Rediscover Merrion Square’s sartorial past with a tour of the Square’s notable designers, as well as a look at its present-day couturiers and milliners, with added surprises along the way.
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The Lost Fashion History of The Liberties Tour
This tour will take a stroll through this fascinating area with a look at where and how textiles were produced in the area from Tailors' Hall, Francis Street, Weaver's Street and Newmarket Square to The National College of Art and Design on Thomas Street where fashion and textiles continues to develop in the city today.
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The Lost Fashion History of O'Connell Street Tour
This tour looks back at the street's days of splendour from the fashion worn in its 18th century houses to the style to be found in the great Victorian department stores of the time.
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The Lost Fashion History of Grafton Street Tour
This tour is a trip down memory lane along Dublin's most beautiful shopping street and takes in the famous Irish businesses that have been part of the fashion imaginations of Dubliners over the years.
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The Lost Fashion History of Grafton Street & South William Street
Discover how fashion has contributed to the economic and cultural life of the city and the people who have played a part in making Irish fashion what it is today.
