item details
NameScrapbooks
ProductionJillian Bussell; records creator; August 1963-1980s; Wellington
Classificationscrapbooks, black-and-white photographs, colour photographs, clippings, letters, notes, telegrams, brochures, invitations, programmes, cards, business cards, business records, business letters, letterheads, certificates, greeting cards, forms
Materialspaper, cardboard, newsprint, photographic gelatin, photographic paper, silver, dye, printing ink, plastic
Techniquessnipping, pasting, black-and-white photography, colour photography
Registration NumberCA001161
Credit lineGift of John Bussell in memory of Jill von Kohorne (nee Bussell), 2013
Overview
The Academy of Elegance Archive documents the life of a successful and well known career woman, Jill Bussell.
It provides an insight into the business of training young women (and men) in grooming, deportment and modelling, over a 20 year period, from 1964 through to the 'dress for success' movement of the 1980s.
The archive document Jill Bussell's social life in Wellington, as well as her changing personal image and wardrobe.