Annual Review of Sociology Book

Enjoyable reflective book, probably a 3.5 really. It is a bit bitty and you could dip in and out of it although I read it more or less straight through. Justine Picardie is a fashion editor, and there is quite a bit about the fashion industry in this, but there are also memories of clothes in the past, and family history, some of it a bit inconclusive. The wedding dress of the title was a black cocktail dress, and somehow it eventually disappeared. Loss is one of the themes of the book, particularly the death of the author's sister Ruth. There is some unevenness between the personal stories, the literary stories, and the stories about fashion interviews (I think publishing in this form must be a way in which the bits which couldn"t go into the PR controlled interviews could come out! )