Helen Larson was a keen collector of costume, especially pieces with historical associations. She spent half a century building up a collection that encompassed early costume, couture and pieces with historical or celebrity provenance, helped by her friend Doris Langley Moore who founded the Costume Museum in Bath.
On April 28, the Charles A Whittaker auction house will be selling the collection in a 600-lot plus sale in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Many of the lots come with correspondence between Moore and Larson giving provenance and auction history, while others feature in Moore’s books: The Woman in Fashion and The Child in Fashion.