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Clothes7 September 2005
Image: A wedding dress
Why do we become so emotionally attached to clothes?

How would you feel about selling your wedding dress, or getting married in someone else's?

Many of us have very strong superstitions about items of clothing, or attachments to clothes that we'd never want to part with. It could be one of granny's little jackets, a christening robe, or t-shirt of an old ex stuffed in a bottom drawer.

So why do we become so emotionally attached to clothes, and why is this kind of attachment so often dismissed as sentimentality? 

Jenni is joined by Professor Elizabeth Wilson from the London College of Fashion and Justine Picardie who's new book My Mother's Wedding Dress is a family memoir explored through significant pieces of clothing.

Ribbons and Pearls

My Mother's Wedding Dress by Justine Picardie, published by Picador - ISBN:0330413066


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