Valerie Cumming is a dress and social historian who worked in museums as a costume curator, as a senior administrator and currently as chairman of the Olive Matthews Collection at Chertsey Museum. She is a trustee of the Bullard and Callow Trusts (Museums Association) and was chairman of the Costume Society from 2004 to 2009. She has written and lectured extensively and her publications include books, articles, essays and reviews.
