The Old Clothes Man
Have you any clothes to sell? The years make a stain you can’t conceal, Your fabric’s eaten, you discard That...
Fictive Fashion
THE SELF ON DISPLAY
Vivienne Westwood's ability to provoke public discussion – both through her fashion and her media appearances – has characterised her...
Late to Bloom
‘To create a being out of oneself is very serious,’ wrote the late Clarice Lispector in her 1973 work, Água...
The Coat
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat;
Three-Piece
"I'll make you one," he said, "and balance it Perfectly on you." And I could almost feel The plumb line...
The Grapes of Wrath
The man's clothes were new – all of them, cheap and new. His gray cap was so new that the...
Tender Buttons
What is the current that makes machinery, that makes it crackle, what is the current that presents a long line...
Pyjama Shirt
I started going round to his for dinner at the end of autumn, when the leaves were on the point...
String Theory Sutra
In writing of experience or beauty, a cloth emerges as if made from a twin existence. It’s July 4: air...
The New Dress
But she dared not look in the glass. She could not face the whole horror – the pale yellow, idiotically...
Layers
Some days she flicks through the clothes hangers but finds nothing to wear. She doesn’t find it because she does...
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Bending over she found one of the braids of Marjorie's hair, followed it up with her hand to the point...