Dressays

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An Anthology of Writing about Clothing

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Dressays is an anthology of thought-provoking essays exploring how clothing can reveal the complex, deeply felt bonds we have with ourselves, our communities and the worlds through which we move. These deeply personal narratives demonstrate how, whether saturated with emotion or charged with political significance, dress both bears and shapes meaning. Collectively, they show how dress is as inextricable from shared cultures and histories as we are from the garments we wear.The contributions in this anthology articulate what is often felt but not seen when it comes to dress: how it ties us to other people, how it hides us even as it makes us visible, and how it helps us navigate and participate in our communities. They offer insight into a wide spectrum of human experiences, including how clothes relate to experiences of disability, chronic illness, religious faith, self-alienation and grief; of caring for a loved one, of being racialised, of coming to terms with one’s sexuality, and of custodianship of the natural world. By revealing how garments and accessories form the threshold of our experience of the world, these essays show just how entangled with both they are.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-23
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350473249

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Modedesign och textilformgivning inom Kultur
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Rosie Findlay is Senior Lecturer in Media at City St George's, University of London, UK. She is a feminist media studies scholar who has published widely on her two key research 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), co-editor of the International Journal of Fashion Studies and author of Personal Style Blogs: Appearances that Fascinate (2017).

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 of Losing a Parent: Time, clothing and grief during terminal illness, Isabel Mundigo-Moore19. A Life in Clothes, Ruth GershonReferencesNotes on ContributorsCreditsList of IllustrationsThematic Index