# What The Dresses Know book launch

What The Dresses Know book launch at Tenderbooks, Friday 6 November 2026, 18:00.

- Venue: Tenderbooks, Cecil Court 6, London
- Go to page: https://tenderbooks.co.uk/blogs/events-window/what-the-dresses-know-book-launch-friday-6-november-6-8pm

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A book launch celebrating the publication of What The Dresses Know by Sophie Oliver, published by Manchester University Press. The book offers a new account of pioneering modernist women and their radical experiments, told through the clothes they made and wore, from a dress Vanessa Bell rescued from the London Blitz to Frida Kahlo's huipiles and a waistcoat embroidered for Gertrude Stein by Alice B. Toklas. Using these garments, Sophie Oliver, a distinctive new voice in cultural criticism, explores how modernist women used clothes to think through the contradictions of the modern world and to make history during years of tumultuous change.

## Dates

- Friday 6 November 18:00 — Tenderbooks

Written by a model, sources: [tenderbooks.co.uk](https://tenderbooks.co.uk/blogs/events-window/what-the-dresses-know-book-launch-friday-6-november-6-8pm)

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