Worn Stories: Discover the Secrets of Your Clothes

Clothes are rich with information about identity, society, politics and culture. They live alongside us and experience the world with us, and we can learn a great deal from them. In this workshop Fashion Historian Sarah-Mary Geissler will guide you through how to “read” the secrets of your clothes.

Bring along a garment (old or new) and we will closely examine it to extract the stories within its stitches. Based on the methods of historians and museum curators, you will document your observations and as a group discuss your findings. You will then use this visual information to write and share the biography of your clothing.

Host or Publisher The Word, National Centre for the Written Word