203 Stories About Dresses

A lucky talisman or a manifested curse in velvet and tulle—a dress, judging by the accounts of the PostPost.Media project participants who shared personal stories, has and remains something burdened with completely special expectations—perhaps no other item in a woman’s wardrobe carries so wide a spectrum of expectations. It’s no surprise, then, that the result of these expectations is euphoria and bewilderment, a sense of omnipotence and a feeling of being lost, experiencing one’s own beauty—or one’s “unworthiness.” That’s why each story told by the authors of this audiobook seems priceless: by talking about their dresses, these authors help us understand more clearly things that are far more significant—the nature of the relationship between a person and their clothes, methods of building identity and subjectivity through costume, the poorly studied role of clothing in family dynamics, and finally the specifics of certain aspects of material culture over the last three decades.