Not Just Any Dress

Contents: Sandra Weber/Claudia Mitchell: «Dress Stories» - Lorri Neilson Glenn: That Saturday night all her clothes fell apart and broke into song - Carol Mavor: Collecting Loss: Photographs, Dresses, «Paperies» - Kathleen O'Reilly Scanlon: Communion Dress Violations - Catherine Derry: «I'll Never Find a Dress»: Shopping for the Prom - Sandra Weber: No Red Shoes - Sandra Weber: Boxed-in by My School Uniform - Lyse Lemieux: Tunique Desires - Candis Steenbergen: In Front of the Closet: (Ad)dressing the Academic - Claudia Mitchell: Was It Something I Wore? - Madeleine R. Grumet: My Green Robe: Scholae Personae - Sandra Weber: Curse You Descartes! My Academic Gown - Lorri Neilson Glenn: Basic Black: A Wardrobe Primer for Seasoned Academic Women - Annette Kuhn: A Credit to Her Mother - Jennifer Musial: Fashioning Pregnancy: The Maternity Dress in Clothing Catalogues - Ardra L. Cole: The Christmas Doll - Gary Knowles: Constraining Mother: Corsetry, Control, and Comfort - Celeste Snowber: (Wo)man Time and M(other) Sins - Claudia Mitchell: Bridesmaid dress: Thick Description - Kathryn Church: Try This One On for Size: Poetic Notes from Wedding Dress Research - Jo Visser: Nailing It: My Wedding Dress - Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen: Made in China - Roksana Bahramitash: Revealing Veiling and Unveiling - Joan Reider: Scarf Signatures - Liz Ralfe: Love Affair with My Isishweshwe - Charlotte Hussey: Fashion Statement - Lorri Neilson Glenn: At the Ugly Ducklings Anonymous Meeting - Celeste Snowber: Writing Bare-breasted - Ilana Abramovitch: Not Just Any Little Black Dress - Claudia Mitchell: Dressing Death: Elsie Never Wore a Prom Dress - Kathy Sands: Fashion for the Soul - Sandra Weber/Claudia Mitchell: Theorizing Dress Stories.

The Editors: Sandra Weber is Professor of Education and a Fellow at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal.
Claudia Mitchell is a Professor and Chair in the School of Education at the University of Natal, South Africa. Her most recent book, Researching Children's Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood (with Jacqueline Reid-Walsh) was published in 2002.
Together, Weber and Mitchell have co-authored That's Funny, You Don't Look Like a Teacher: Interrogating Images of Identity in Popular Culture (1995) and Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers: Beyond Nostalgia (1999). Co-founders of the Image and Identity Research Collective, they have also co-produced two documentaries on prom dressing, girlhood, and youth culture: Canadian Pie (2002), and Dress Fitting (2000).