Dressays

Rosie Findlay is a feminist media studies scholar who has published widely on two key areas: fashion media and communication in the 21st century; and the intersection of dress, feeling and culture. She is co-editor of Insights on Fashion Journalism (2022), author of Personal Style Blogs: Appearances that Fascinate (2017) and co-editor of forthcoming edited collection, Remaking Fashion Media: Sustainable Narratives and Visions of Change. Rosie is Senior Lecturer in Media at City St George's, University of London, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Dressays, Rosie Findlay 1. The Look, Anne Anlin Cheng2. Darning Mark's Jumper: Wearing Love and Sorrow, Karena de Perthuis3. The Same Yellow Dress, Amy Key4. We Have Lost Too Many Wigs, Desiree Cooper5. High Functioning, Esmé Weijun Wang6. The Work of Human Hands, Fiona Wright7. Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket, Robin Wall Kimmerer8. Things to Think About When You Are Buying Clothes, Meena Kandasamy9. Under the Weather, Jane Tynan10. A Stitch Between Reality and Imagination, Thao Thai11. Paradise Engraved, Krys Osei12. The Men Who Dressed Me, Honor Wilson13. Sartorial Misdirection, Rosie Findlay14. 'The Cool', Yomi Sode15. On Losing Something Precious: Of Talismans and the End of Love, Stephanie Danler16. A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality, Vivian Sobchack 17. Rummaging: Losing and finding myself in clothes, Ellen Sampson18. Material Ambiguities: Time, clothing and grief during terminal illness, Isabel Mundigo-Moore19. A Life in Clothes, Ruth GershonReferencesNotes on ContributorsCreditsList of IllustrationsIndex

The anthology is a hymn to experiential dress. The essays beautifully, often lyrically, narrate how garments and accessories shape our emotional lives, how their materiality solidifies our bonds with others and ourselves. They tell stories about how we inhabit the world in and through our and everybody else’s clothes. An intriguing read.