![]() ![]() Secondly, The School will provide the high-quality teaching that Janet could only achieve on a smaller scale. The School of Historical Dress was given a more complex set of goals first to finish as many as are feasible of her planned books in the Patterns of Fashion series, of which Patterns of Fashion 4, has been completed by Jenny Tiramani and Santina Levey, increasing its size and introducing full-colour which would delight Janet. She was proud to be made an elected fellow of The Society of Antiquaries of London and her wish that they would establish The Janet Arnold Award to provide an annual fund for new research work has been honoured. In her will she made it clear that it was students that mattered most to her. ![]() It was to Devon that she returned each summer to live in her caravan writing up notes and roughing-out layouts, while London was for the buzz of a city, theatres, friends, and students. Her home, however, was divided between Bristol where she was born into a family proud of their Devonshire ancestors and London, where she worked. She was a charismatic teacher, and much in demand as a lecturer throughout Britain, Scandinavia, much of central Europe and North America. ![]() ![]() Left: Janet travelling in Spain with Santina Levey in 1973. ![]()
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