Margery Kempe

• “Hir clokys also wer daggyd [...] that it schuld be the mor staryng to mennys sygth and hirself the mor ben worshepd”
• Margery could not express her devotion in traditional ways (nun, a virgin or an anchoress) - instead she performs her piety: her wailing, spasms and her clothing.
• Christ instructs her to wear white: "I wyl that thu were clothys of whyte and non other colowr”
• "I drede that the pepyl wyl slawndyr me.” She fears she will be seen as a “ypocryt” and have people “wondryn upon" her
• "Thu wolf, what is this cloth that thu hast on?"  [...] Children in the monastery said: "Ser, it is wulle." 
• Clothes as a form of self-fashioned chastity and virginity, due to her status as a marginalised individual
• her clothing becomes central to social embodiment and performativity; consciously designed to assert her social positioning - clothes become a form of religious self-fashioning (Andrea Denny-Brown)