BRING NO CLOTHES: BLOOMSBURY/ PHILOSOPHY OF FASHION (HB)

To understand why we wear what we wear, we must travel - to Bloomsbury. From the repression of E M Forster's top buttons to the creativity of Vanessa Bell's wayward hems, from the pure pleasure of Ottoline Morrell's lavish dresses to the conscious clashing of Virginia Woolf's orange stockings, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter unlocks the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born, and explores the connections between the ways we dress and the ways we think, act and love.