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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 relocatte 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.

Table of Contents:

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction: Fashion and Cultural Memory 2. Vintage: Fashioning Time 3. Icons of Modernity: Sixties Fashion and Youth Culture 4. Style Narratives: Relocatting Sixties in the Twenty-first Century 5. Investing (in) Time: Collecting and Consuming the Past 6. Vintage Style and Mediated Memories: The Sixties DIY 7. Un/timely Fashion References Index

Author/Creator:

Jenss, Heike , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Fashioning memory: vintage style and youth culture [by Jenss, H.]

Related Series:

Dress and fashion research

Subjects:

Clothing and dress

Youth — Clothing

Fashion — Social aspects

Subculture

General Notes:

Previously issued in print: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, published online in 2018.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 5, 2018).

Audience:

Specialized.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Call Numbers:

GT596 .J46 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781474262002 (ebook)

OCLC Numbers:

1019945777

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: bflEDZ0001818915