Feeling Dressed (part of doing together 24)
Feeling Dressed
Workshop with Lucy Gundry as part of doing together 24
Friday 5 April 2024
In this workshop, we explored how items of dress loaned from the archives of Frome Museum have been worn, mended and repaired or altered in order to extend their life and use.
Together, we looked for these ‘worn characteristics’. ‘Unworn’ characteristics of dress are first embedded by the designer who chooses the fabric, fit and style before constructing the piece. When worn these ‘unworn’ characteristics become altered by the hands and bodies of wearers over time to become ‘worn characteristics’ communicated through the indexical traces of touch left visible in the fabric, fit and form of each item.
Together, we visually unpicked the layers of stitch and style to investigate what was made, worn, mended and repaired, in what order, how, when and why.
doing together 24 |
Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.
Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.
