WORN: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear

Ellen Sampson

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, UK

Year 2020

Pages 267

The shoe in this book calls on readers to reconsider the value of the marks of wear at a time when fast fashion reigns supreme and interest in damaged, or worn, garments quietly increases. Originating in an experimental practice-based methodology which placed wearing at its center, this book presents the act of wearing as a tool for developing knowledge, of ‘being in’ or ‘being with’, rather than observing from the outside. Bringing together anthropological and psychoanalytic theory with practices of handmaking, wearing, and photography, this book asks what is the embodied experience of wearing and the affect of the worn?  Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, this book is focuses exclusively on the significance of imperfect garments as important aspects of our material world and culture.

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