- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 173 pages).
- Summary
- 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? This book 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.
- Series Statement
- Dress and fashion research
- Uniform Title
- Fashioning memory (Online)
- Dress and fashion research.
- Alternative Title
- Fashioning memory (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents
- Introduction: fashion and cultural memory -- Vintage: fashioning 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.
- LCCN
- 10.5040/9781474262002
- OCLC
- ssib030723843
- Author
Jenss, Heike.
- Title
Fashioning memory [electronic resource] : vintage style and youth culture / Heike Jenss.
- Imprint
London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2020.
- Series
Dress and fashion research
Dress and fashion research.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Also published in print.
- Note
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
Print version: (DLC) 2015016053 (OCoLC)907140669 1
- Other Standard Identifier
10.5040/9781474262002 doi