Love-Clothes: Exploring Post-Consumptive Narratives Stored in Contemporary British Wardrobes

时尚研究的研究往往集中在年轻人的着装上，或者最近非常年长的人的着装上，而中年职业女性的着装经历在很大程度上还没有被探索。这个项目对物质文化的女性主义方法旨在纠正这种缺失，通过深入的衣柜采访和感官民族分析，让人们看到日常着装与这些被忽视的关系。在为我的硕士学位论文(2020)进行了这项研究的初始版本后，我发现我的参与者中从来没有人从爱的角度来考虑服装。这些关于他们与服装相关的爱情故事的对话揭示了关于服装消费的复杂的欲望和羞耻的二元论，这一点值得进一步研究。通过将蒙迪戈-摩尔的爱情服装定位为自传式的切入点，该项目将突出这些女性特定的生活经历--更年期、有成年孩子、获得工作资历、健康变化和重要关系--围绕参与者与服装的关系发展一种反主导修辞，颠覆围绕中年爱情、欲望、时尚和时尚的正统观念。

Research in fashion studies has tended to focus on the clothing of the young or, more recently,the very old, leaving middle-aged working women's experience of dress largely unexplored. Thisproject's feminist approach to material culture aims to correct this absence, making theseoverlooked relationships to everyday dress visible through in-depth wardrobe interviews andsensory ethnography.Having conducted an initial version of this study for my MA Dissertation (2020), I found thatnone of my participants had considered clothing through the lens of love before. Theconversations about the love stories they associated with their clothing revealed a complexdesire/shame dichotomy around clothing consumption that merits further study. By positioning Mundigo-Moore 2love clothing as an autobiographical access point, this project will foreground these women'sspecific life experiences-menopause, having grown-up children, gaining seniority at work,change in health and to significant relationships-to develop a counter-dominant rhetoricaround the participants' relationships to clothes which subverts orthodoxies around love, desire,fashion and fashionability in mid-life.