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Ahead of his upcoming exhibition and book Bring No Clothes, Charlie Porter delves into the clothing of the Bloomsbury Set, unpacking questions of class, Empire and queerness in the process
Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell lived a buttoned-up girlhood. Buttons weren’t the worst of it. The Stephen sisters, as they were then known, were buttoned up