Reading: Wild Dress

Wild Dress: Clothing and the Natural World is a collection of short essays by Kate Fletcher (Professor of Sustainability, Design and Fashion at the University of the Arts, London) reflecting on the way the clothes we wear reflect and influence our relationship with nature. The essays are all very short (no more than four to five pages at most), and the book ends with an appendix of colour plates of the landscapes (all in the north-west of England) that inspired the book. I loved the way Fletcher evokes the natural world around her, and the reflections on clothing and how it can separate or integrate us into our environment, were fascinating and thought-provoking. It's a very short book, but a rewarding one.