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Area of Science:

  • Science and Technology Studies (STS)
  • History of Technology
  • Feminist Technology Studies

Background:

  • The 'making and doing' in Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature.
  • Archival research on historical clothing patents.
  • Limited visibility of historical technoscience narratives.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and analyze 'speculative sewing' as a novel research practice.
  • To examine 1890s British women's convertible cycle wear.
  • To understand how clothing innovations challenged socio-political restrictions and claims to rights.

Main Methods:

  • Combining feminist speculation with reconstruction practices.
  • Stitching together data, theory, and fabric from patent information.
  • Analyzing historical clothing patents as three-dimensional arguments.

Main Results:

  • 1890s women's cycle wear utilized new clothing forms to challenge restrictions on women's public presence.
  • Inventors used convertible clothing to enable alternate claims to rights and entitlements.
  • Translating patent data into wearable forms makes technoscience stories more visible and knowable.

Conclusions:

  • Speculative sewing transforms clothing patents into tangible, three-dimensional arguments.
  • This practice renders lesser-known technoscience narratives accessible.
  • It re-establishes clothing as a material concern within public discourse.