All Work Is Women's Work assemblage button-up

This garment is a published volume, co-authored by the Library of Unruly Fashion Practices and XEROXED. It represents a shared commitment to fashion as a site of critical inquiry and social engagement.

The Library of Unruly Fashion Practices is an emerging platform for anti-capitalist, queer, feminist, and decolonial perspectives on fashion. It challenges the conventions of fashion (education) by treating the archive not as a passive repository, but as an active site for knowledge production. This piece is part of its inaugural project, All Work is Women’s Work, which recovers the radical publishing history of Amsterdam’s Seamstresses’ Union. XEROXED is a garment publishing platform that explores the printed garment as a medium for circulating social critique and countercultural knowledge. Through the act of “publishing-wearing”, XEROXED investigates the political agency of what we wear. Together, we’ve transformed archival fragments into a wearable publication. The material is sourced from De Naaistersbode (The Seamstresses’ Courier), published between 15 October 1898 and 15 February 1901, collected at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.

You are now part of its circulation. By wearing this piece, you are carrying a piece of feminist history, supporting a critical practice, and helping us stitch a new, more equitable narrative for fashion.

How to take care of your XEROXED wearable pages? Hand wash or machine wash cold (30°C). Turn the wearable publication inside out before washing. Avoid rubbing the printed areas. Use a mild detergent. Iron inside out at low temperature. Puff ink may slightly flatten with washing. Or store it in your library.

As the garments are secondhand, subtle signs of wear may also be present.

photography: Beau Bertens