Sickness in Style

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>How can dress impact a journey through disabling illness and recovery from South Africa to London?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Navigating the development of her complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from her home in South Africa to university in Oxford and recovery in London author </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Nica Cornell</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> uses the garments she travelled with to reflect on her experience. Cornell explores the effect of garments such as her Ankara sheath dress Sub fusc and second-hand clothing and how they influenced her experience of alienation exclusion and realisation.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)><em>Sickness in Style</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> explores the challenges of dressing and how it can become an obstacle to accessing the external world as well as how beauty can be rediscovered through second-hand outfits. This book is ideal reading for students of Fashion Studies Disability Studies Psychology and Migration Studies.</span></p><p></p>