The voice of clothing: And the masks spoke out

This article aims to analyze the communicative capacity of clothing, especially face masks with the arrival of COVID-19 To achieve this, information and examples on certain items of clothing from an extensive interdisciplinary bibliography, written, audiovisual and digital media pieces were first collected as well as direct observation of the street and on the Internet Then these have been selected, ordered and classified to describe and explain what these outfits say The work shows that clothes speak out by themselves, of us and the society in which we live This repeats with face masks too Since the arrival of the pandemic, they have become a new way of communicating and transmitting messages of all kinds The masks stand out because they veil a part of the face, but at the same time they reveal numerous details about our identity © 2021 Universidad Pompeu Fabra All rights reserved