Fashion is personal : The mom project: Paying sartorial homage to the women who gave us style ; Address & redress: the story of a brokenhearted dress ; Before the bidding starts: stories from an auction house intern ; Heaps on heaps: artist and eclectic collector Grant Heaps talks work, wardrobe, hoarding, and underpants ; Make me real: important style lessons learned from Courney Love ; Time shift: WORN editor Sony Abrego models the finest from her closet ; Everything I know about fashion (I learned from my mother): a column about observation, emulation, and the lessons we learn from the people we love

Fashion is practical : Washing is your friend: WORN answers your laundry quandaries ; For the love of the line: politics, progress, and why laundry's simplest pleasure isn't always cut and dried ; Live and let dry: the dirty truth about dry cleaning ; Well heeled: a wornette gets her boots fixed ; Gordian not: a tidily tangle-free guide to tying ties ; Devil with the blue jeans on: the art of repairing denim ; Home Ec is where the heart is: what we lost when we forgot how to sew

Fashion is art : Mark it on your skin: Artist Andrea Vander Kooij talks femininity, sexuality, art, and fashion ; Exhibitionist: how fashion fits into the world of museums ; Puffy pastries: Artist Susan Belle wants a crazy dessert-shaped outfit ; Hear now a curious dream: wearing the stuff of imagination ; Brutally individualistic: revisiting the Marchesa Casati, famous and forgotten performance artist ; Out of bounds: style is a team effort ; Second-hand stories: Conceptual artist Iris Häusler discusses the role of clothing in her work and life

Fashion is object : Down the button hole: closing in on collectors fascinated by fasteners ; The revolution will be plasticized: Bakelite as it was and is ; Low vamps and peep toes: why the '40s pump is perfectly proportioned and pin-up preferred ; Safety dance: how the safety pin became a revolutionary fashion accessory ; Pointed examples: some advances in men's collars in the last hundred years or so ; Frou frou shoe: vintage store owner Matthew Morad has a lot of shoes ; To conserve and protect: Unpacking the multi-layered world of textile conservation ; Knowitall: object analysis in column form

Fashion is design : Tangled up in shoes: an interview with Canada's king of sole, John Fluevog ; Typoglycemia: fashion designer Angie Johnson wears her label's prize-winning collection ; Art and sole : A WORN fashion journal exhibit at the Bata Shoe Museum ; Broken frames: fashion in [stopped] motion ; The elusive Mr. Frederick: searching for the story behind Hollywood's naughtiest lingerie label

Fashion is history : Dress blues: the military's covert operation in men's closets ; Beauty as duty: patriotism, patriarchy, and personal style during wartime ; What not to wear to the revolution: Caroline Weber talks radical chic in the world of Marie Antoinette ; Khadi's got a brand new bag: the evolving image of an Indian fabric ; A whirlwind trip down mammary lane: the evolution of the bustline from 1600-2000 ; Let's hear it for the girls: a glossary of bras, from bandeaus to superboost ; Flights of fancy: the very un-uniform evolution of stewardess dress

Fashion is identity : Out of the closet: the evolution of identity in gay men's fashion from green carnations to hot cops ; Colour me your colour, baby: the gender-fication of pink and blue ; Modest introduction: a basic glossary of hijab ; Hair apparent: exploring the defining characteristics of style ; The F word: finding a place for fashion in feminism ; Unbinding binaries: using clothing to unlock the door of gender identity

Fashion is ideas : Bibliofilles: all dressed up to tell a story ; Curator, connoisseur, consumer: a midlife crisis at the Paris ethical fashion show ; Cut to the grace: Ms. Jones inspires the unconventional ; Pulling a museum out of a hatbox: fashion collectors transform a private stash into a public institution ; I eat style: what could be more inspiring than a roasted chicken? ; Fossilized and rarefied: an interview with fashion scholar Alexander Palmer about defining vintage in modern times ; Political coverage: Keffiyeh and cultural outsourcing

Fashion is fun : P[r]etty theft: the perfect outfit is never an offense ; Going down in flames and rhinestones: forgiving Elvis for the jumpsuits ; Cut and print: an ode to Edward D. Wood Jr. in pictures ; Five reasons why Jim Jarmusch is the coolest person on earth: other than the fact that he makes great movies ; Amidst the clutter: fashion in a profession of ephemera ; A century on display: a brief overview of window dressing in the 20th century ; Field guided: there is a zebra; I'm not kidding; go look.