203 stories about dresses

The talisman for good luck or materialized curse from velvet and tulle, the dress, judging by the stories of the participants in the project of personal stories postpost.media, was and remains an object loaded with completely special expectations - perhaps not a single item of the female wardrobe is endowed with such a spectrum of expectations. It is not surprising that the result of these expectations is euphoria and confusion, a sense of omnipotence and a sense of loss, an experience of one"s own beauty or their own “unworthy”. That is why each of the stories told by the authors of this book seems invaluable: speaking of their dresses, these authors help us a little better understanding much more significant things - the nature of the relationship of man and his clothes, methods of building identity and subjectivity by means of a suit, poorly studied role costume in family dynamics and, finally, the specifics of some aspects of the material culture of the last three decades