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???? Happy birthday Samuel Pepys! Were you gifted with any cuffs, periwigs or breeches?

Pepys wrote a lot about clothes in his famous diary, but the diary stopped halfway through his life. So, historian Marlo Avidon studied Pepys’ private collection of fashion prints at @MagdaleneCollegeCambridge. There, she found a guilty pleasure and much more.

See what she discovered ????
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/samuel-pepys-fashion-prints-reveal-guilty-pleasure-fancy-french-clothes?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

The Pepys Library is currently being restored and is expected to be completed in autumn 2026, with a plan to reopen to the public shortly afterwards. Learn more about the Pepys Restoration Project here: https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys-restoration-project?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
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Academic
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Cambridge University, Cambridge research, History
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