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This chapter draws to together the different themes of aesthetics, dress, the body and the everyday for a synthesized discussion. This chapter also introduces a working definition for aesthetics in everyday life and suggests that practically we should understand that extreme emotive experiences are essential for understanding this term. This chapter also develops further the potential of dress as a communicator , and in particular, its potential within relational exchanges. In that relational exchanges provides a site for exchange that allows the actors involved to perceptively transcend the physicality of dress and delve into its imaginative potential. Thus, suggesting that dress possesses a richness of engagement that both equates to fine art with regards Wollheim’s notions of seeing-in and yet surpasses it in terms of relationality.
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King, I.W. (2017). Discussion. In: The Aesthetics of Dress. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54322-2_5
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