Joan Nunn

Joan Nunn was an evening student in costume design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1940s

She studied before that at the Wimbledon College of Art in the early 1930s, her lecturer there was Margaret Watts (who had been taught by Jeannetta Cochrane at the Central School)

She worked in a dress shop, where she started a workroom ro make up designs for customers. She taught dress-making part-time at the Woolwich Polytechnic. During the War she was at the Ministry of War Transport, while there she was asked to arrange costumes for Toynbee Drama School Student productions and she also made costumes for Ballet Rambert. She went on to take a full-time teaching post at te West of England College of Art. Worked on costumes at the Old Vic from1944 to 1946.
She started a course on the making of stage costume at the Canterbury College of Art and wrote a book Fashion in Costume 1200-1980, which in its second edition was retitled Fashion in Costume 1200-2000.