Marlo Avidon reveals how dress reflected identity, status and and social ambition in seventeenth-century England.

Choral Evensong at St Olave Hart Street (5.30pm-6.15pm) – free to attend – followed by St Olave Lecture (6.30pm-7.15pm) : Fashion and Femininity in the Age of Samuel Pepys

Please join us for Choral Evensong, followed by this special lecture. Samuel Pepys was an avid observer and collector of fashion. Drawing on her recent research, Marlo Avidon explores the world of Samuel and Elizabeth Pepys and their contemporaries, revealing how dress reflected identity, status and social ambition in seventeenth-century England.