Fashioning memory : Vintage style and youth culture 1st ed.

Author

• Jenss, Heike

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9781474262002

Series

Dress and fashion research

Subject(s)

• CLOTHING AND DRESS
• SUBCULTURE
• YOUTH--CLOTHING

Notes

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Abstract

The valuing of old clothes as “vintage” and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand consumption or the wearing of new old-fashioned clothes, has become a widespread phenomenon. This book illuminates sartorial and bodily engagements with memory and time through the temporal and nostalgic potency of fashion, and what this means for contemporary wearers.

Based on in-depth ethnographic research including participant observation and interviews with sixties enthusiasts in Germany, who relocate British mod style into the twenty-first century, Jenss examines the practices and experiences that are part of the sartorial remembering of “the sixties,” from hunting flea markets and eBay, to the affect of material and mediated memories on vintage wearers.

Jenss offers unique insights into the fashioning of time, cultural memory, and modernity, tracing the history and current appeal of vintage in fashion and youth culture, and asking: what kind of experiences of temporality and memory are enacted through fashion? How have evaluations of second-hand clothes shifted in the twentieth century? Fashioning Memory provides a unique insight into the diverse use of fashion as a memory mode and asks how style is remembered, performed, transformed, and reinvested across time, place, and generation.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 166 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction: Fashion and Cultural Memory --
Vintage: Fashion Time --
Icons of Modernity: Sixties Fashion and Youth Culture --
Style Narratives: Sixties in the Twenty-First Century --
Investing (in) Time: Collecting and Consuming the Past --
Vintage Style and Mediated Memories: Sixties DIY --
Un/timely Fashion --
References --
Index.

Exemplar(s)

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