From the 1950s onward, fashion phenomena staged as museum exhibits have become increasingly present. The emphasis in these exhibitions was usually placed on chronological overview and fast-paced changes of the silhouette, while exhibited artifacts were predominantly historical records of privileged social classes. Museums in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia did not fall behind in this practice. The following decades saw museum exhibitions and concepts which questioned and valorized dress culture and fashion with regard to time and space of their origin. However, the 1980s marked a sharp turn in common practices regarding fashion museology. Certain museums started specializing as solely fashion museums, whereas others started enriching their fashion collections by purchasing historical and contemporary fashion artifacts. The research of museum artifacts indicated the need for an interdisciplinary approach; exhibition concepts were developed with the attempt to comply with commercial, consumerist and museological requirements. Unfortunately, exhibition activities of the museums in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia did not keep up with the trends and the rest of the world in 1980s regarding fashion museology. What are the reasons behind this and what are the prospects? We wish to address these questions at international interdisciplinary scientific symposium. Our aim is to encourage systematic research of fashion museology in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia throughout history by presenting theoretical approaches and valorizing examples of good practice. We wish to point to the potential and viability of such projects and set the ground for the development of scientifi c discourse, with the intention of establishing international cooperation, advancing education and supporting good practice.