Stories
- 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.”
- Article
Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Clothing ephemera. Box 3.
- Ephemera
Clothing on fire & method of treatment / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
Date: [1913]- Books
Clothing and dressing for adults / compiler, E.R. Wilshere ; assistant, B.H. Rostance.
Date: 1976- Books
- Online
Modern dress; and clothing in its relation to health and disease / by T. Frederick Pearse.
Date: 1882- Videos
- Online
Health and clothing.
Date: [1928]