A year ago, we unveiled the “What Were You Wearing?” clothing exhibit, featuring outfits from 13 sexual assault survivors from plain-dressing backgrounds. Today, we’d like to share the video version of this display. Trigger warning that this may be disturbing/triggering for discussion of sexual abuse. Photography by Daniel Horst Photography
Category: Clothing Project
The purpose of the Clothing Project is not to discourage modesty or to belittle those who choose to dress conservatively. The Clothing Project graphically and viscerally demonstrates that modesty does not protect people from sexual assault.
At the Child Abuse Prevention Seminar in April, we were excited to reveal a project that had been in process for months: the “What Were You Wearing?” clothing project. As far as we know, it is the first such project to exclusively feature clothing from those who were part of a plain-dressing community at the time of their assault.