The study examines the sartorial production of feminine identities in 20th-century Britain.Cognitive metaphor theory is applied to demostrate the importance of clothing in public assertion of gender identities.

Katarzyna Agnieszka Kocio?ek is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her doctoral dissertation (2009) examined the representations of ethnic identities in the British visual arts discourse of the 1980s and 1990s. Her research interests include the representation of identities and the visual culture, which incorporates fashion, film and visual arts