In what ways is clothing a “second skin”?
How is the experience of wearing clothing documented in actual garments, writing and memory?
What are the physical qualities of cloth?
How can material experimentation and play be a form of technique research?
Clothing as a SECOND SKIN
“Dress then, forms part of our epidermis- it lies on the boundary of self and other.”
“The body is both an intimate and social object.”
There it was— enclothed cognition, a state similar to embodied cognition but unique to clothing. The findings suggested that the physical act of wearing a lab coat actually made the subjects better at a test of attention and sharpness. The wearer embodied the symbolic nature of her guise.