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SICKNESS IN STYLE IBD

LIVED PLACES PUBLISHING
07 / 2025
9781916985186
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Sinopsis

How can dress impact a journey through disabling illness and recovery from South Africa to London?Navigating the development of her complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from her home in South Africa, to university in Oxford, and recovery in London, authoráNica Cornelláuses the garments she travelled with to reflect on her experience. Cornell explores the effect of garments such as her Ankara sheath dress, Sub fusc, and second-hand clothing, and how they influenced her experience of alienation, exclusion, and realisation.Sickness in Styleáexplores the challenges of dressing and how it can become an obstacle to accessing the external world, as well as how beauty can be rediscovered through second-hand outfits. This book is ideal reading for students of Fashion Studies, Disability Studies, Psychology, and Migration Studies.

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28,74