Tenderbooks You gotta keep your head straight about clothes.

by Dal Chodha

Paperback

Reviews

[Sandeep Sandhu · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a gem of a book that affirms logical principles outlined in "Cheap Chic". Dal Chodha takes us on a journey through his own appreciation of the 1975 "first of a kind" thrift shopping guide-book. In doing so, we are brought to our senses as to just how twisted and malformed fashion has and can become. The books is laugh out loud funny and simultaneously contemplative. This particular quote resonated with me,

"Muddy the skin-deep gist of fashion with any global sociopolitical issues and it is immediately rendered inane. This mean that fashion is not political, but, when it is desperately trying to be that, we miss its principal appeal"

My own journey with fashion has become quite dormant of late, with covid and travel, I have become a little numb to it all, but this was the little jolt I needed to get my creative juices going about what I throw on my back.

[Phoebe · Rating 4 out of 5]

“I am suspicious of books I cannot smell”

I loved this read, re-centring my thoughts on fashion and finding out about RAGS! (ms krugerrr) i will be doing further reading on this

the contradiction of fashion & changing your wardrobe to be less about fashion still feeds the cycle of consumerism and to engage in anything fashion related you are trapped into the consumerism fly trap. squashed.