When research hits the small screen
Have you been watching Mrs America? (available on the BBC iPlayer)
The character (Bella Abzug) is wearing a shirt made from the fabric that Professor Kiera Vaclavik chose from the Liberty archive for
their 2015 Alice in Wonderland collection, Pictures & Conversations.
their 2015 Alice in Wonderland collection, Pictures & Conversations.Her fabric was entitled Isa after Isa Bowman, who was the little girl for whom Lewis Carroll had wanted a Liberty dress for her performance as Alice in 1888.
Prof. Vaclavik's discovery of that fact in Carroll's diaries led to the 2015 fabric collection.