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Collected Item: “Lockdown Clothing Project”

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Lockdown Clothing Project

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A blog project to document how people's approach to clothing and dress changed during lockdown/quarantine. I started the project with a friend.

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We are two London-based fashion scholars – Lorraine Smith (aka Lori) and Jana Melkumova-Reynolds – who have always been curious about how others dress, and how this relates to identity. Recent social changes (due to the coronavirus pandemic) have increased that curiosity. How are people dressing when in lockdown and isolation situations? How is this different to the way they dressed before? Has it affected their sense of self? This project aims to shine a light on those changes and reveal some of the many and varied personal stories relating to fashion and dress in 2020.

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clothing, fashion, style, personal, identity, sustainability, sewing, UK, USA, UAE, Ireland, Ukraine, Canada, lockdown, homeworking, home, comfort,

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https://rarelywearslipstick.com/category/category-fashion/lockdown-clothing/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Lorraine Smith and Jana Melkumova-Reynolds

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2020-07-27
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