Worn: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear Sampson Ellen
Worn: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear Sampson Ellen Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 "Beautifully written, entirely accessible, poignant…
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Worn: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear Sampson Ellen
Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 "Beautifully written, entirely accessible, poignant and profound" - Amy de la HayeIn a culture preoccupied with newness and a fashion system largely predicated upon it, what is the significance of worn clothes and why do they have the power to affect us so deeply? Through a focus upon a single garment, the shoe, this book calls on readers to reconsider the value of the marks of wear at a time when fast fashion reigns supreme and interest in damaged, or worn, garments quietly increases. How are relationships to clothing produced and maintained through the embodied practices of wearing, maintenance and repair?
Bringing together anthropological and psychoanalytic theory with practices of handmaking, wearing, and photography, this book asks what is the embodied experience of wearing