How are our memories and how are our histories somehow stored in objects? In our Book of the Week, Patch Work: A life amongst clothes, Claire Wilcox, curator of fashion at he Victoria & Albert Museum, tells the story of  her own life through a sequence of items of clothing, from her mother's black wedding suit to her own silk kimono. The book is beautifully and evocatively written, and helps us to think anew about the garments we wear between ourselves and the world. 
>>Read Stella's review. 
>>"When I look at clothing I'm thinking about narratives."
>>Fashion insiders. 
>>At the Wearers Festival. 
>>Material matters. 
>>Visit the V&A. 
>>Your copy. 
>>Twentieth Century Fashion in Detail.