Saturday Historical Costume Try-On — Public Programme for Visitors
Every Saturday Victoria Museum offers visitors the chance to try on exact replicas of historical costumes from 1880-1910 — an interactive 'living fashion' experience.
One of the most popular Victoria Museum programmes remains the Saturday Living Fashion cycle — an opportunity for visitors to try on exact replicas of historical costumes from the museum's student replica collection. The museum costume department holds over seventy full sets of attire from 1880-1910: ladies' gowns with bustles, men's morning coats and frock coats, children's sailor suits, as well as peasant shirts, plakhtas, wrap-around skirts from different regions of Ukraine.
Each participant receives instruction from costume department staff: proper corset application, lacing, use of various skirts and accessories. A separate location is the photo zone in a recreated fin-de-siècle parlour interior, where visitors can take authentic portrait shots. The programme is held every Saturday from 11:00 to 17:00; tickets are purchased together with museum admission. The replica collection is updated annually — partly by the museum's own efforts, partly in collaboration with students of Kyiv sewing colleges.
