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The Memory of Clothes

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Robyn Gibson

    1. University of Sydney, Australia

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  • A wide range of genres ranging from narratives to photo essays to poetic pieces is represented in this unique collection detailing the memories of clothes.

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. A Mother’s Love

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Red Pashmina

      • Victoria Campbell
      Pages 3-6

    3. The Lioness, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

      • Deborah Fraser
      Pages 7-15

    4. Into My Mother’s Wardrobe

      • Robyn Gibson
      Pages 17-21

    5. A Wardrobe of Making

      • Laurene Vaughan
      Pages 23-24

  3. The Generation Gap

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. My Favourite Dress

      • Alexandra Cutcher
      Pages 27-35

    3. “I’ll Go Anywhere to Get Out of this Damned Place!”

      • Tony Fleming
      Pages 37-40

    4. Mnēmonikos Paterasi

      • Marianne Hulsbosch
      Pages 41-45

    5. The Museum of US

      • Lea Mai
      Pages 47-50

  4. Creatures, Great and Small

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Eating Beauty

      • Josephine Fleming
      Pages 53-56

    3. Making Horse Blankets in the Himalayas

      • Linda Hodson
      Pages 57-66

  5. Songlines1

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Two Little Girls in Bluei

      • Robyn Ewing
      Pages 69-72

    3. To the Dedicated Follower of Fashion

      • Robyn Gibson
      Pages 73-74

  6. Men in Suits and Dresses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. My Own Skin

      • Paul Dufficy
      Pages 77-79

    3. A History of Men’s Suits

      • Robyn Gibson, Paul Dufficy, David Smith, Laurence Coy, Joshua Barnes
      Pages 81-86
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About this book

Once hanging static in a wardrobe or folded away in a trunk, in recent times clothes have found themselves thrown into the spotlight. The crowds that are drawn to large scale fashion exhibitions staged with increasing frequency in galleries and museums around the world offer glimpses into the meaning that we attach to these items of clothing. Apart from their aesthetic value, clothes have the ability to evoke issues of identity, of the relation of self to body and self to the world. We are able to find ourselves through the experiences of delving into our wardrobes and remembering. Clothes are thus layered with meaning since they have the power to act as memory prompts. Woven into their fabric are traces of past experiences; stitched into their seams are links to people we have loved and lost. Viewed as visual objects, clothing is not frivolous, flippant or foolish. In telling and talking about clothes, we reveal much about ourselves, our lives and the experiences that we drape around our bodies. Whether bought or handmade, passed down or reconstructed, clothes help us to construct meaning as we remember those things in our lives that matter.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sydney, Australia

    Robyn Gibson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Memory of Clothes

  • Editors: Robyn Gibson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-953-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-953-1Published: 03 February 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 174

  • Topics: Education, general

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