Dressed up and Laying Bare
In a plane of crisp sunlight that angles down through the door frame, and dissolves into rust-coloured shadows settling across...
On Shame
Little Doubts Everywhere
In the 21st century ‘little doubts’ have entered the field of fashion at its core: from doubts about the necessity...
Fashion and the Fleshy Body
Individuals feel a social and moral imperative to perform their identity in particular ways, and this includes learning appropriate ways...
Docile Bodies
Prison Uniforms and the Dress of Subservience
Prison literature and theory often focuses on the oppressiveness of the system, the callous discipline enforced on the prisoner, the...
Mirror
The really nasty ones, the killers, the rapists, the child killers and child rapists; the ones who have been held...
Carrie
“Take it off, Carrie. We’ll go down and burn it in the incinerator together, and then pray for forgiveness. We’ll...