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EPISODE · Feb 25, 2021 · 42 MIN

with Sarah Geissler: emotional quilts, dress detectives, and naughty steps.

from unfinishing · host Emily Anderson

Sarah Geissler is a fashion historian and writer. She researches costume, homemade clothing, and communities of dress, including cosplay and historical costuming. She also makes her own clothes and has worked as a costume volunteer at Beamish Museum. She researched and co-curated the exhibition ‘Dressing the Decades: 85 years of Visitor Clothing’ at Preston Manor, Brighton. She has previously been a copywriter in luxury fashion, a catwalk video archive annotator, and old style photographer. In Summer 2020 Sarah was one of the volunteers who engaged in a mammoth effort to sew scrubs for the NHS. Her unfinished project is a quilt made from the offcuts. We talk about how it was useful to have something to do with your hands, about why quilts are particularly emotional objects, and about when you should put projects on the naughty step. Sarah also has fascinating things to say about what you can find out about people just by looking at their clothes… Sarah can be found on Instagram at @sarahmary.gee, or on LinkedIn at Sarah-Mary Geissler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mary-geissler-866431108/ ....................... Subscribe to Unfinished/Unpublished on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ez2Ji4YEwBSm7uzpZ5nzC Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unfinished-unpublished/id1546490983 Subscribe on other platforms here: https://anchor.fm/em-anderson ....................... Unfinished/Unpublished celebrates creative projects that never got finished, that have yet to be finished, or that never made it out into the world. I ask my guests to search their bottom drawers and the abandoned corners of their laptops to rediscover secret and incomplete schemes. If you have an unfinished or unpublished project you’d like to talk about, email me at [email protected] Or, follow me on Twitter: @TrueBagglerag

Sarah Geissler is a fashion historian and writer. She researches costume, homemade clothing, and communities of dress, including cosplay and historical costuming. She also makes her own clothes and has worked as a costume volunteer at Beamish Museum. She researched and co-curated the exhibition ‘Dressing the Decades: 85 years of Visitor Clothing’ at Preston Manor, Brighton. She has previously been a copywriter in luxury fashion, a catwalk video archive annotator, and old style photographer. In Summer 2020 Sarah was one of the volunteers who engaged in a mammoth effort to sew scrubs for the NHS. Her unfinished project is a quilt made from the offcuts. We talk about how it was useful to have something to do with your hands, about why quilts are particularly emotional objects, and about when you should put projects on the naughty step. Sarah also has fascinating things to say about what you can find out about people just by looking at their clothes… Sarah can be found on Instagram at @sarahmary.gee, or on LinkedIn at Sarah-Mary Geissler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mary-geissler-866431108/ ....................... Subscribe to Unfinished/Unpublished on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ez2Ji4YEwBSm7uzpZ5nzC Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unfinished-unpublished/id1546490983 Subscribe on other platforms here: https://anchor.fm/em-anderson ....................... Unfinished/Unpublished celebrates creative projects that never got finished, that have yet to be finished, or that never made it out into the world. I ask my guests to search their bottom drawers and the abandoned corners of their laptops to rediscover secret and incomplete schemes. If you have an unfinished or unpublished project you’d like to talk about, email me at [email protected] Or, follow me on Twitter: @TrueBagglerag

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