Gilded Age Fashion: talk with Elizabeth Block.

This is an in-person talk and conversation at the National Gallery in London. Author Elizabeth Block, a Senior Editor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, speaks with art and dress historian Jacqui Ansell. They discuss the gowns of Gilded Age couture, including the House of Worth, and the women who wore them, drawing on Block's richly illustrated book 'Gilded Age Fashion'. The talk explores the glamour, etiquette and social politics of America's elite in the late 19th century, featuring treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.