Queer bodies manage their coherence in space through the practices of getting dressed and through technologies of the closet. Affect moves bodies through the intimate, personal space of the closet before they enter into the open and public space of the street.
Excerpt from:
Queering the Closet, Queering Fashion Theory: A Reimagination of Queer Dress Practice as Ethos.
Derek Cooper, MA Fashion Studies ’16
The closet or wardrobe is an affective entanglement of materials, bodies, flows, and information that work at generating the body as constructed and appropriate for the social world.