Organ Recital
Bodies are capricious. For years mine worked; then it didn’t (and wouldn’t again). “Illness,” Virginia Woolf wrote as she recovered from a faint, “is the great confessional.”
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...
The America They Want To See
Fashion is political propaganda. What one hesitates to say aloud - or what may be unspeakable - can still be...
Hello, Welcome. I’m John.
Each Maasai has about six outfits. Men wear robes – we call them shuka – in different colours and patterns....
The Clothes horse
The transition to motherhood, it seems, provokes a certain pragmatism in a once-wild woman. Her jewellery? Banished, since the delicate...
Beggars And Choosers
Carlo is concerned about his looks; it’s important to him how his ‘outer shell’ – his coat – appears. Decent...
DRESSING WITH MOTHERS
As daughters, we are privy to a deeply intimate space: a space where our mothers could be themselves, where they...