Stories
- Article
Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
- Article
Dress and the magic of touch
Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.
- Article
Butch drag in the builders’ caff
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
- Photo story
Transitioning and the family album
“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”
Catalogue
- Videos
- Online
Health and clothing.
Date: [1928]- Videos
Health and clothing.
Date: [1928]- Pictures
- Online
Crimean War: drying closet as used by Scutari Hospital. Wood engraving.
Reference: 21254i- Books
Consumptive chic : a history of beauty, fashion, and disease / Carolyn A. Day.
Day, CarolynDate: [2017]- Books
Stitches in time : the story of the clothes we wear / Lucy Adlington.
Adlington, Lucy, 1970-Date: 2015