Lydia Edwards

Lydia Edwards is a British/Australian fashion historian, author and lecturer at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. She is the author of Bloomsbury's How to Read a Dress (2017/21), How to Read a Suit (2020), How to Read a Wedding Dress (2026) and forthcoming with Routledge, Costumes and their Audiences: Audiences: 19th Century to the Present (2026). She runs the popular fashion history Instagram account @howtoreadadress.

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