Recommended by All Of A Kind Style
Tender & Hostile is a new Substack written by Heather Mills, and I love everything she has posted so far. I'm thinking about my own somatic experiences through a different lens and find her work both intellectually interesting and practical.
Luke is the author of "Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life," and he makes the concept of mimetic desire "digestible" and practical. I write about fashion and style as identity work, and his work has made me think deeply about WHY specific styles are attractive to me (and others). Am I connecting with something that authentically resonates with me? Or am I drawn to a look because I've seen it on/ promoted by people I admire?
Dr. Jo-Ann Finkelstein's Raising Her Voice does something rare: it combines serious research with practical guidance for making change — in your own life and in the world. If you're trying to figure out not just why things are hard for women and girls right now, but what to actually do about it, start here.
Jo B. Paoletti has spent decades tracing the surprisingly recent and entirely arbitrary origins of our culture's gendered clothing "rules" — and her work is a quiet, rigorous dismantling of assumptions most of us have never thought to question. If you're raising a child who doesn't fit neatly into those rules, or if you're simply curious about how we got here, her writing is essential.
I read more fashion and style Substacks than I probably should. Allison's rises to the top — not because her style is mine, but because her thinking about style is unusually clear. She has a way of putting words to something most of us feel but can't quite name.
Articles of Interest is proof that fashion is never just about clothes. In her podcast and Substack, Avery Trufelman traces the history and meaning behind what we wear with the rigor of a documentary journalist and the curiosity of someone who genuinely can't let a good question go. She has a gift for finding the weight and history inside objects we treat as ordinary. Essential reading (and listening!) if you believe getting dressed is worth taking seriously.
