Stories
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Crimean War: drying closet as used by Scutari Hospital. Wood engraving.
Reference: 21254i- Books
Stitches in time : the story of the clothes we wear / Lucy Adlington.
Adlington, Lucy, 1970-Date: 2015- Pictures
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Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) washes clothes and passes the washed clothes to the Christ Child who gives them to Saint Joseph to hang on a tree to dry, with the assistance of angels. Engraving by J. Couché, 1791, after A. Borel after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1791Reference: 10435iPart of: Galerie du Palais Royal.- Books
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Soldiers' health and soldiers' dress / by Sir Lauder Brunton.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: [between 1900 and 1909]- Books
Consumptive chic : a history of beauty, fashion, and disease / Carolyn A. Day.
Day, CarolynDate: [2017]