Dress as Biography

Dress as Biography looks at the way clothing and dressed appearance contribute to a deep and empathetic understanding of an individual's life.

Scholarly writing on dress and identity primarily focuses on dress as an articulation of collective social identities – gender, sexuality, subcultures, ethnicity – with relatively little in-depth attention paid to dress as an expression of the individual. Alongside analysis of social identities, this book explores how appearance can be read as an indi...