Fashioning Society : Introduction

For many, fashion still has a bad name: it is fickle and superficial, ephemeral and transient, feminine and flashy. This, it seems, denotes everything that good literature, works of art and culture in general should not be. In an example of such reasoning, a review of the poetry of contemporary Irish writer Eavan Boland criticises her writing for paying too much attention to fashion: "In all the beauty of Boland's pictures it is the substantiality of [the] truth beneath that I begin to miss. She is superb at presenting us with the wrappings, the bandages, the face-paint of her women [...]. But what of substance, of 'truth' lies beneath her obsessive fabrics?" (Byron 1987/88: 50) One of the poems the critic might have had in mind when forging her critique is Boland's poem "Making up" - a poem about cosmetics, a rare topic for poetry.

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