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服装上，或者最近关注的是老年人的服装，这使得中年职业女性对服装的体验在很大程度上没有得到探索。这个项目对物质文化的女权主义方法旨在纠正这种缺失，通过深入的衣橱访谈和感官民族志，使这些被忽视的与日常着装的关系变得可见。在为我的硕士论文（2020）进行了这项研究的初始版本后，我发现我的参与者中没有一个人以前从爱的角度考虑过服装。他们将爱情故事与自己的服装联系在一起的对话揭示了围绕服装消费的复杂的欲望/羞耻二分法，值得进一步研究。通过将Mundigo-Moore 2love服装定位为自传式的切入点，该项目将突出这些女性的特定生活经历——更年期、有成年子女、在工作中获得资历、健康状况的变化和重要的人际关系——围绕参与者与服装的关系发展一种反主导的修辞，颠覆了中年时期关于爱情、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.