The four-hundred-page book features the best content from the journal's first fourteen issues, assembled by WORN'S founder and editor in chief, Serah-Marie McMahon. Articles penned by a host of unique contributors (academics, writers, curators, and artists) touch on topics as wide-ranging as the relationship between feminism and fashion, discourse on hijabs, how to tie a tie, the history of flight attendants, and textile conservation. With eclectic photo shoots featuring "real" models, striking illustrations, and whimsical layouts, every page is a joyful, creative approach to clothing. The WORN Archive is the ultimate cultural style map for those who don't want to be told how to dress but are seeking a transformative understanding of why we wear what we do

• Fashion is personal : The mom project ; Address & redress ; Before the bidding starts ; Heaps on heaps ; Make me real ; Time shift ; Everything I know about fashion (I learned from my mother)
• Fashion is practical : Washing is your friend ; For the love of the line ; Live and let dry ; Well heeled ; Gordian not ; Devil with the blue jeans on ; Home Ec is where the heart is
• Fashion is art : Mark it on your skin ; Exhibitionist ; Puffy pastries ; Hear now a curious dream ; Brutally individualistic ; Out of bounds ; Second-hand stories
• Fashion is object : Down the button hole ; The revolution will be plasticized ; Low vamps and peep toes ; Safety dance ; Pointed examples ; Frou frou shoe ; To conserve and protect ; Knowitall
• Fashion is design : Tangled up in shoes: an interview with Canada's king of sole, John Fluevog ; Typoglycemia: fashion designer Angie Johnson wears her label's prize-winning collection ; Art and sole : A WORN fashion journal exhibit at the Bata Shoe Museum ; Broken frames: fashion in [stopped] motion ; The elusive Mr. Frederick: searching for the story behind Hollywood's naughtiest lingerie label
• Fashion is history : Dress blues: the military's covert operation in men's closets ; Beauty as duty: patriotism, patriarchy, and personal style during wartime ; What not to wear to the revolution: Caroline Weber talks radical chic in the world of Marie Antoinette ; Khadi's got a brand new bag: the evolving image of an Indian fabric ; A whirlwind trip down mammary lane: the evolution of the bustline from 1600-2000 ; Let's hear it for the girls: a glossary of bras, from bandeaus to superboost ; Flights of fancy: the very un-uniform evolution of stewardess dress
• Fashion is identity : Out of the closet: the evolution of identity in gay men's fashion from green carnations to hot cops ; Colour me your colour, baby: the gender-fication of pink and blue ; Modest introduction: a basic glossary of hijab ; Hair apparent: exploring the defining characteristics of style ; The F word: finding a place for fashion in feminism ; Unbinding binaries: using clothing to unlock the door of gender identity
• Fashion is ideas : Bibliofilles: all dressed up to tell a story ; Curator, connoisseur, consumer: a midlife crisis at the Paris ethical fashion show ; Cut to the grace: Ms. Jones inspires the unconventional ; Pulling a museum out of a hatbox: fashion collectors transform a private stash into a public institution ; I eat style: what could be more inspiring than a roasted chicken? ; Fossilized and rarefied: an interview with fashion scholar Alexander Palmer about defining vintage in modern times ; Political coverage: Keffiyeh and cultural outsourcing
• Fashion is fun : P[r]etty theft: the perfect outfit is never an offense ; Going down in flames and rhinestones: forgiving Elvis for the jumpsuits ; Cut and print: an ode to Edward D. Wood Jr. in pictures ; Five reasons why Jim Jarmusch is the coolest person on earth: other than the fact that he makes great movies ; Amidst the clutter: fashion in a profession of ephemera ; A century on display: a brief overview of window dressing in the 20th century ; Field guided: there is a zebra; I'm not kidding; go look