This exhibition is the eagerly awaited follow-up to the 2023 exhibition at Compton Verney, Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain and continues to examine the pivotal role costume plays in fold customs across Britain. In collaboration with the Museum of British Folklore, you'll explore further class, sexuality and identity to challenge preconceived ideas that seasonal folk cultures and customs need to be fixed, nostalgic or predominantly rural.

Traditions such as London’s carnivals, Doggett’s Coat and Badge Race, Swan Upping and Somali May Day traditions come together in Making More Mischief unified through the shared values of folk dress rooted in identity, non-conformity and subversiveness. Full outfits will be displayed across LCF’s three floors of public showcasing areas alongside many voices of the wearers and/or makers as written or oral testimonies. These communicate the deeply personal individual and community expressions of lives lived and desires, which permeate all folk culture.