“In a communal dressing room”

September 26, 2014 | 1 book mentioned

“Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.” Judith Thurman writes for The New Yorker about Women in Clothes and her experiences in thrift stores and clothing swaps. For more about the connections between feminism, dressing and literature, check out Rachel Signer‘s Millions review of the same anthology.

is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York and every so often writes things at kaulielewis.wordpress.com.