The Museum of Chemiserie and Male Elegance

"Berry Insolite" (Unusual Berry)

This article is extracted from the book " Berry insolite ", which, in 240 pages, presents 125 discoveries of the Indre and the Cher.

 

Unique in France

As its name indicates, this museum is not only the one of the shirt industry, which would be already unusual in itself, but also the one of the male elegance, which constitutes a unique set in France which, beyond the shirt, presents also clothes and accessories, ties, hats, and jewels... a collection of 12 000 objects!

 

The blouses

In the nineteenth century, about 3,000 blouse-makers worked in Argenton sur Creuse, and more particularly in the workshop that now houses the museum.
You will see their life, their work, and the steps of manufacturing a shirt, pattern, cutting, assembly, folding...
You will also see the evolution of the shirt over time, from the Middle Ages, to the Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, or Pierre Clarence shirts that were made in these workshops! And, for the record, you will also see a shirt that belonged to Fernandel, and others to Frank Sinatra, Richard Burton, Johnny Hallyday, or the one worn by Charlie Chaplin at an Oscar ceremony in 1972!

 

A textile garden

The museum also includes a garden, obviously a textile garden! That is to say that it is in the shape of a shirt pattern, and that the plants found there are those used to dye clothes, or to maintain the linen, among others!

 

Museum of the Chemiserie and the Elegance of Men
Rue Charles Brillaud
36200 Argenton sur Creuse
Tel : 02 54 24 34 69
contact@museedelachemiserie.fr


https://www.museedelachemiserie.fr/

 

 

 

Photos : Musée de la Chemiserie

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To go further....

Châteaux & Edifices remarquables de l'Indre

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Le département de l’Indre, aussi discret soit-il, recèle de véritables merveilles architecturales. Sa position géographique - un œil sur le Val de Loire, les pieds dans le granite marchois - lui vaut une étonnante diversité de styles et de fonctions, pour ces châteaux qui maillent bocages et plaines du Bas-Berry. Alain Cassaigne, qui promène ses objectifs dans la France entière depuis une quinzaine d’années, ne s’y est pas trompé : l’Indre est un trésor qu’il fallait mettre en valeur, en un ouvrage où l’esthétique sert le patrimoine.
Berry insolite

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125 articles documentés pour 125 découvertes du patrimoine et de la culture locale du Berry. Pour découvrir des parcs et jardins étonnants, rencontrer des artisans, artistes, et personnages locaux, admirer des lieux inconnus et bâtiments remarquables, visiter des musées thématiques et écomusées ruraux, participer aux activités, événements, et spectacles, croiser la grande et la petite histoire, goûter la vie régionale, et les produits locaux... Dans tout le département, il a été recherché ce qui sort de l’ordinaire, et donc créé la surprise, l’intérêt, l’émotion

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