Dress & Autobiography

Published: Nov. 4, 2018, midnight

b"We discuss the ways fashion and autobiography intersect - prompted by a visit to see clothes in the Museum of London archive. See links below.\\n\\nEdwina Ehrman and Amy de la Haye (eds), London Couture: British Luxury 1923-1975 (2015): https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/london-couture-british-luxury-1923-1975-131549.html (article on couture clients features Lady Fox and Lady Delamere)\\n\\nPhotos of Myra Alice (n\\xe9e Newton), Lady Fox at NPG: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp91931/myra-alice-nee-newton-lady-fox\\n\\nLady Fox's skating outfit at Museum of London: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/ice-skating-fashion-craze\\n\\nJames Fox, White Mischief (1998, first published 1982): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1034644/white-mischief/9780099766711.html\\n\\nMichael Radford, White Mischief (1988): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094317/\\n\\nLisa Cohen, \\u201cFrock Consciousness\\u201d: Virginia Woolf, the Open Secret, and the Language of Fashion, Fashion Theory, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (1999): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2752/136270499779155032\\n\\nLisa Cohen, \\u201cVELVET IS VERY IMPORTANT\\u201d: Madge Garland and the Work of Fashion, GLQ - A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 3 (2005): https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/11/3/371/9851/VELVET-IS-VERY-IMPORTANT-Madge-Garland-and-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext\\n\\nIris Marion Young, Throwing Like a Girl And Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (1999): http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806576"