Episode 10: Erline and the Purpose of Uniform. Expression and Meaning Through Clothing

Erline, a seamstress from St. Vincent, discusses the importance of clothes in her life: the personal associations with clothes. As a child living in a country where most parents couldn't afford to buy dolls, she instead dressed up a stick from the Breadfruit tree and called it "breadfruit baby". It would become real. Clothes do that: they make certain realities apparant and they participate in constructing meaning. She thinks this is particularly true with uniforms.Support the showWebsite: talkpopc.orgInstagram: @talkpopcEmail: [email protected]