Tilting the day
Lisa Cohen: Writing about Clothes, 7 November 2019
Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes
by Shahidha Bari.
Cape, 312 pp., £25, June 2019,978 1 78733 149 5 Show More
by Shahidha Bari.
Cape, 312 pp., £25, June 2019,
“... polluted environment’ that the Clean Air Acts (1956, 1968, 1993) gradually transformed. For Shahidha Bari, clothing is a ceaseless provocation, sensual and cerebral. She describes herself as ‘haunted by clothes’: My eye is easily caught by a stranger’s coat in a train carriage, my hand prone to drifting absently through any array of ... ”
