Memories Of Dress

Author : Alison Slater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350153818
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of Dress written by Alison Slater and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of clothing feature prominently in auto/biographies, yet traditionally they have not been subjected to the same level of academic scrutiny as other sources. Memories of Dress redresses this imbalance by bringing auto/biographical memories to the centre of a new methodology for understanding fashion history, material culture, and other disciplines. Presenting a comprehensive overview of theoretical and practice-based approaches, the book invites readers to explore the relations between clothing and memory through diverse examples ranging from oral histories of Madchester men and Hungarian socialist sewing, to a quilt-making autoethnography into the complexities of American racial heritage and imagined memories within museum collections. Chapters by leading and emerging experts consider the ways in which dress is remembered and the ways that memories and nostalgia in turn influence everyday dress practices, unpicking the meanings and motivations-both collective and public, personal and private-behind the clothes we wear in different times, places and life stages; and the impact of class, gender, ethnicity, and disability on material identities. Uniquely weaving personal recollection with theory, this multidisciplinary book offers new ways of understanding clothing, material culture, and memory.

Author : Robyn Gibson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462099537
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memory of Clothes written by Robyn Gibson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Emily Spivack
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616893605
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worn Stories written by Emily Spivack and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling volume of mini-memoirs exploring the personal histories we carry in treasured articles of clothing—now a Netflix docuseries. Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has collected over sixty of these clothing-inspired narratives from cultural figures and talented storytellers. First-person accounts range from the everyday to the extraordinary, such as artist Marina Abramovic on the boots she wore to walk the Great Wall of China; musician Rosanne Cash on the purple shirt that belonged to her father; and fashion designer Cynthia Rowley on the Girl Scout sash that informed her business acumen. Other contributors include Greta Gerwig, Heidi Julavits, John Hodgman, Brandi Chastain, Marcus Samuelsson, Piper Kerman, Maira Kalman, Sasha Frere-Jones, Simon Doonan, Albert Maysles, Susan Orlean, Andy Spade, Paola Antonelli, David Carr, Andrew Kuo, and more. By turns funny, tragic, poignant, and celebratory, Worn Stories offers a revealing look at the clothes that protect us, serve as a uniform, assert our identity, or bring back the past—clothes that are encoded with the stories of our lives.

Author : Emily Spivack
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683351797
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worn in New York written by Emily Spivack and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boots a passenger had on when his plane landed on the Hudson River. The tank top Andy Warhol’s assistant wore to one of their nightclub outings together. The jacket a taxi driver put on to feel safe as he worked the night shift. — These and over sixty other clothing-inspired narratives make up Worn in New York, the latest volume from New York Times bestselling author Emily Spivack. In these first-person accounts, contributors in and out of the public eye share surprising, personal, wild, poignant, and funny stories behind a piece of clothing that reminds them of a significant moment of their New York lives. Worn in New York offers a contemporary cultural history of the city—its changing identity, temper, and tone, and its irrepressible vitality—by paying tribute to these well-loved clothes and the people who wore them. Includes contributions from: Adam Horovitz Amy Heckerling Andre Royo Anna Sui Aubrey Plaza Catherine Opie Coco Rocha Dick Cavett Eileen Myles Fab 5 Freddy Gay Talese Genesis Breyer P-Orridge JD Samson Jenji Kohan Jenna Lyons Kyp Malone Lena Dunham Pee Wee Kirkland Thelma Golden Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Author : Lenore Terr
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078672577X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unchained Memories written by Lenore Terr and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a long-forgotten memory of a horrible event suddenly resurface years later? How can we know whether a memory is true or false? Seven spellbinding cases shed light on why it is rare for a reclaimed memory to be wholly false. Here are unforgettable true stories of what happens when people remember what they've tried to forget -- plus one case of genuine false memory. In the best detective-story fashion, using her insights as a psychiatrist and the latest research on the mind and the brain, Lenore Terr helps us separate truth from fiction.

Author : Linda Przybyszewski
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080472
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Dress written by Linda Przybyszewski and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the women who taught Americans how to dress in the first half of the 20th century—and whose lessons we’d do well to remember today.

Author : Diana J. Dell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595001416
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories Are Like Clouds written by Diana J. Dell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories Are Like Clouds, a touching memoir, is a fond remembrance of growing up when life seemed simple. Gliding on the porch swing while listening to their mother’s stories of her youth, counting dead goldfish at the five-and-ten cent store, playing pick-up baseball games down near the dump, collecting Ralph Kiner and Stan Musial baseball cards, helping Daddy at his candy business, devouring Sgt. Rock comic books, and running numbers for the neighborhood bookie in a housedress filled Kenny and Diana’s innocent days in East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. The author weaves together the universal experiences shared with millions of other baby boomers such as that first television set, iceboxes, “Amos ‘n Andy,” hula hoops, and the milk man and the individual memories specific to this family (the rag man and his tired old horse, the Polish Barber’s dirty adventure magazines, and shotgun weddings at the Slovak Club). This coming-of-age tale, filled with hope and old-fashioned values, will delight and engage and then, long afterward, persist in memory.

Author : Christina McKenna
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781903238769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress written by Christina McKenna and published by Neil Wilson Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her childhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture of violence and oppression with her brutal father and protective mother, whose retalliation to her husband's meaness came in the form of a secret yellow dress. This is a rite-of-passage account of two generations of Irish women, told with great humour and compassion. On the one hand is the writer; on the other the heroic mother who showed her love as best she could. McKenna concludes that our past, no matter how painful, need not keep us bound - once we choose love over hate. That choice, she suggests, will set us free.

Author : Lorelei Vashti
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 174331101X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress, Memory written by Lorelei Vashti and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we grow older, how do we know what to let go of and what to keep?..Lorelei started collecting dresses in her twenties and found that every time she wore one it became more significant to her. From falling in love for the first time to playing in a band, from starting a career to moving overseas, every dress soon had a memory stitched into it, and she became as attached to each one as if they were the events and people themselves...But what happens when the wardrobe gets full? Should you let go of the dresses you've outgrown, or try to hold on to them forever?..'Dress, Memory' is about a decade in dresses. Perceptive and poignant, humorous and heartwarming, it's the story of growing up and growing into yourself. It's about trying things on until you find the perfect fit.

Author : Allison Ince
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644161265
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Takeaways - Nightmares And Memories written by Allison Ince and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nightmares and Memories, Amelia Rivera, a sixteen-year-old with the power to turn objects into air, moves to Fate, Texas, in hopes of hiding from the agents of a secret society. When her father is shot by the agents, she has to put her trust in a group of teens that may or may not be spies for the secret society. Nightmares and Memories is the first book in a seven-book series. In Amelia's attempt to unravel the mysteries surrounding her powers and her past, she stumbles into the dark world of modern-day slavery and other global conspiracies.