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Bring No Clothes

Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion

Charlie Porter

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Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early 20th century, when fashion as we know it was born. Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group, the collective of artists and thinkers who were in the vanguard of a social and sartorial revolution. Each of them offers fresh insight into the constraints and possibilities of fashion today: from the stifling repression of E. M. Forster's top buttons to the creativity of Vanessa Bell's wayward hems; from the sheer pleasure of Ottoline Morrell's lavish dresses to the clashing self-consciousness of Virginia Woolf's orange stockings. As Porter carefully unpicks what they wore and how they wore it, we see how clothing can be a means of artistic, intellectual and sexual liberation, or, conversely, a tool for patriarchal control.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Binding: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Sept 2023
Dimensions: 223 x 143 x 34 mm
ISBN: 9780241602751