Sickness in Style

A Memoir of Distress and Dislocation through Dress

Nica Cornell, Joseph H Hancock

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Lived Places Publishing
16 July 2025

Fashion & textiles: design; Biography: arts & entertainment; Disability: social aspects; Migration, immigration & emigration

Series: Fashion and Personal Style Studies

How can dress impact a journey through disabling illness and recovery from South Africa to London?

Navigating the development of her complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from her home in South Africa, to university in Oxford, and recovery in London, author Nica Cornell uses the garments she travelled with to reflect on her experience. Cornell explores the effect of garments such as her Ankara sheath dress, Sub fusc, and second-hand clothing, and how they influenced her experience of alienation, exclusion, and realisation.

Sickness in Style explores the challenges of dressing and how it can become an obstacle to accessing the external world, as well as how beauty can be rediscovered through second-hand outfits. This book is ideal reading for students of Fashion Studies, Disability Studies, Psychology, and Migration Studies.

By: Nica Cornell
Edited by: Joseph H Hancock
Imprint: Lived Places Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9781916985186
ISBN 10: 1916985181
Series: Fashion and Personal Style Studies
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 16 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nica Cornell is a South African writer and scholar.