The America They Want To See
Fashion is political propaganda. What one hesitates to say aloud - or what may be unspeakable - can still be effectively expressed through sartorial speech.
Docile Bodies
Prison Uniforms and the Dress of Subservience
Prison literature and theory often focuses on the oppressiveness of the system, the callous discipline enforced on the prisoner, the...
Layer After Layer of Loving Devotion
My mother tells a story about wheeling me around in a supermarket shopping cart as a toddler, wearing so many...
Get Distressed: An Introduction to the Market for Thrashed Clothes
Vintage has never been more visible, but that doesn’t make it any easier to define. There were never hard-set rules...
DRESSING WITH MOTHERS
As daughters, we are privy to a deeply intimate space: a space where our mothers could be themselves, where they...
Magic Carpet Ride
‘There is almost like a desire to distract you,’ said the Turner prize-winning artist Elizabeth Price about the carpets in...
Mending at the Margins
Repair in My London Neighbourhood
What Adil was saying is that everyone wants an office-based job. His comment made me think about the contemporary office...