Eleanor Medhurst

Eleanor Medhurst is the author of Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion (longlisted for the Bread and Roses Award) and the blog Dressing Dykes. She has worked on Brighton Museum’s exhibitions Queer Looks and Queer the Pier and is currently pursuing a PhD in lesbian textile craft history at the University of Brighton.

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Out of the closet

So many people have this idea of fashion as just couture or the latest trends – things that are out of reach or quite intangible and fleeting – whereas I think it’s important to look at fashion as the clothes people choose to wear every day, and at the choices, social history and social connotations behind those clothes.

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