The Leeds Waits at Oakwell Hall: Costume Through the Ages
Oakwell Hall, Batley, WF17 9LG
Wednesday 20th May 2026
🎶 The Leeds Waits Return! 🎶
Travel through time with The Leeds Waits as they open their personal costume collection to reveal how fashion — from the 17th to the 19th centuries — reflected status, identity, practicality, and changing taste.
This relaxed and fascinating session offers a rare, close‑up look at real historical garments and high‑quality reproductions, showing how people dressed across three remarkable centuries of social, political, and cultural change.
Travel through time with The Leeds Waits as they open their personal costume collection to reveal how fashion — from the 17th to the 19th centuries — reflected status, identity, practicality, and changing taste.
This relaxed and fascinating session offers a rare, close‑up look at real historical garments and high‑quality reproductions, showing how people dressed across three remarkable centuries of social, political, and cultural change.
