You can keep your hat on: An essay on costume and culture / Linor Goralik. Moscow: New Literary Review, 2025. –Series "Library of the magazine "Theory of Fashion").

The book by Linor Goralik* contains her extensive essays, created over the past twenty years and published mainly in the journal Fashion Theory: Clothing, Body, Culture. The author has repeatedly stressed that her studies in the theory and history of costume (the key topics of interest to her are "modern costume and identity" and "costume in times of crisis") are closely related to similar work carried out by her in her artistic work. This is a study of individual experience of living in situations of internal challenge generated by stressful external circumstances. The essays included in this book demonstrate not only examples of this work, but also the author's references to the topics of transgression, ethnicity, social art, leadership, illness and hospital space. The collection is divided into three parts: the first ("The boy in the blouse with buttons") includes texts on vestigial practices of the late Soviet period and post–Soviet emigration; the second section ("You can keep your hat on") is devoted to the existence of clothing in various semantic contexts - from the entourage of fashion shoots to modern erotic costume; the third part ("But you, my love, are not like that!") compose essays on important trends in modern culture, from quarantine practices related to the body to nostalgia for the USSR in food branding. Linor Goralik is a novelist, poet and journalist, the author of the books "The Name of So-and-so" and "The Notebook of Katerina Suvorova" published by the publishing house "New Literary Review".

*Included in the Register of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.