I really like reading about feminism and fashion: the two are connected. Here's the bit from The sceptical feminist by Janet Radcliffe Richards which I'm always quoting (in a garbled way) to justify being a feminist who likes clothes and fashion:
People have to choose their clothes whatever they are, and a feminist whose main motivation was to put as little time and money into them as possible should presumably go around in the first and cheapest thing she could find in a jumble sale, even if it happened to be a shapeless turquoise Crimplene dress with a pink cardigan. No feminist would be seen dead in any such thing. Obviously, therefore, the aim is not just to take what is cheapest and easiest, even though consideration of that sort must come into the matter to some extent. Style is important.At some point I'll post a review of It's so you, and when I've finished it, the other fashion-feminism book I'm reading, Linda M. Scott's Fresh lipstick.
