“Abstract: Previous studies have shown that Dickinson used dress metaphorically in her poetry, but this study reads fashion as a cultural artifact and economic index of nineteenth-century women’s lives. Examined here most particularly are Dickinson’s letters to Susan Gilbert Dickinson and other female correspondents, which use dress to present the self and concomitantly to develop a rich frame of reference to the female body.”

Wardrop, Daneen 1952- The Body’s Body: Dickinson’s Fashions and Amplitude The Emily Dickinson Journal – Volume 14, Number 2, Fall 2005, pp. 34-47