Memories of Dress

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Dress in the form of everyday clothing ... tends to survive mainly in the individual or collective memory of those who wore it. Few such items become the object of museum study but several have come to the forefront of memory in this collection of diverse essays. The "auto/biographical" memories recorded here of everyday dress contribute thought-provoking accounts of the eras in which they were worn. * Text * [An] invaluable resource for anyone interested in understanding how our sartorial choices are intertwined with our memories and identities. * Fashion, Style & Popular Culture * [A] substantial contribution to fashion research by integrating perspectives from dress history, fashion studies, memory studies, psychology, psychoanalysis, cultural studies and more ... [Its] engaging content will also captivate a more general audience, prompting readers to reflect on their own wardrobes, memories and connections to dress. * Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty * Memories of Dress stitches together auto-ethnographic narratives in an exemplary collection of testimonies - moments that matter, stories of lives lived and loves lost, identities constructed and skins shed, the poetics of being human etched into present, past or imagined cloth and clothing. A beautiful and treasured book. * Catherine Harper, The British University in Egypt, Cairo * This exciting and interdisciplinary collection of new essays pursues and develops a neglected theme: the presence, role, and importance of individual and cultural memory in the tings we wear ... The essays are individual, substantial, and represent a serious and valuable contribution to the critical theorization and practice of remembrance in and through fashion, clothing, and textiles. * Malcom Barnard, Loughborough University, UK * A diverse and insightful set of perspectives, this anthology reinforces the relevance of auto/biographical memories as a method to explore the motivations and meanings of everyday garments. Profound and poignant insights unfold as the past reverberates in the present through material engagement with clothes. * Hazel Clark, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA * Contributes to the field of social history by placing clothes at the heart of our studies and by identifying clothing as the witness as well as the shaper of societies ... [It] is a story about dress but is also about more than dress. * Costume *