COSTUME students recreated Victorian fashions using traditional sewing techniques which have been modelled at a museum.

Designers from Cleveland College of Art and Design spent 14 weeks making historically accurate outfits ranging from a policeman to an ironmonger and Victorian ladies to quintessentially English gentlemen.

Thirteen Level 5 second year students were set the challenge of researching the 1890s period dress, sourcing materials as close to the originals as possible and using authentic sewing methods to create the garb which was worn for a day at Preston Park Museum in Stockton.

Costume lecturer Julie Archer , said: “They are an exceptionally good group of students, full of enthusiasm, highly skilled, committed and dedicated. The standard of their work was very high and the museum, which features a Victorian street scene, was delighted.”

Preston Park Museum Exhibition Officer, Mark Tindle, added: “We are very proud of our Victorian street and to see it come to life with performers in superb costumes was a real pleasure. Both the quality of the pieces and the understanding that the students showed of the period was fantastic to see.”

The costumes will be on display for the next month in the Church Square Gallery, Hartlepool, before returning to Preston Hall Museum for the summer.