Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the
love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making
meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her
childhood entanglement with her mother, her loss-filled
relationship with her alcoholic father, and her attachment to the
clothes that have mended her as she has mended them. Sweeney
explores how clothing fosters communication and enables us to
cultivate relationships with ourselves and with others, both living
and deceased. In dialogue with other clothing lovers, writers,
fiber artists, evolutionary biologists, historians, and
environmentalists, Sweeney also foregrounds the entwinement of
clothing, race, and gender as she considers the ethics and
environmental effects of clothing consumption, the history of
clothing in the US prison system, and the roles that textiles play
as sources of creativity, artistry, and self-fashioning, even
within conditions of constraint. For Sweeney, the act of mending is
a way of living. Unlike fixing, which leaves no trace of damage or
loss, mending allows Sweeney to embrace holes, rips, and threadbare
patches as part of her life's design.
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