Frock Club

Community Engagement Program of Crawford House Museum

About Us

Frock Club is an award winning community engagement program of Crawford House Museum. In 2019 it is travelling to drought affected areas of NSW and working with Alstonville High School on STEM studies and fashion.

Frock Club™ is a monthly social networking meet up, convened and co-ordinated by founder, Ruth Povall.
It is an outreach program of Crawford House Museum based in Alstonville, NSW.
 
Concerned about the sustainability of ‘fast fashion’, the decline of hand-made fashion in Australia, and the loss of highly skilled technical trades important to making Australia a global design hub, Ruth started Frock Club to educate people about the industry.
 
In a light hearted way, Frock Club delivers behind the scenes background briefings about the fickle, fast-paced world of fashion.
 
On the first Wednesday of the month, Frock Club accesses artefacts from the Museum's collection to illustrate the subject at hand, as well as to inform us about contemporary fashion issues.
 
In a new move, Frock Club will shortly be offering a follow-on session entitled 'Patterning the Past - engineering from the archives'. In this innovative program, Frockers (Frock Club members) can assist Lois Hennes, a Master Pattern Engineer, to engineer patterns of selected fragile garments from the Museum's 100 year old collection of women's clothing and costume (from the Alstonville Plateau) from 1880 to 1980 ... so all may enjoy the garments more fully (touch and even wear them).