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LEISURE STUDIES IN A GLOBAL ERA MODERN VINTAG...

This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the
non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle  specifically that of the 1940s 
1950s and 1960s  and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the gendered
and classed contexts of these eras. As a result  it also identifies the tensions involved in
these identities connected to a past that offered little gain for women and narrow gender roles
for both women and men. Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives is based on original empirical
international data about a group of people who wear vintage clothing all of the time and whose
homes are styled entirely  or almost entirely  vintage. It aims to understand the meanings of
vintage for them through their daily practices and accrued knowledge. Through interviews and
direct observations of vintage events it also explores questions about the acquisition  display
and curation of vintage clothes  homes and objects  about glamour and wardrobes  about the
history of second-hand markets  and emotional durability and ideas about ghosts  hauntings and
spectral remains. It will be of particular interest to students and academics of gender and
women's studies  fashion and design  fashion history  cultural studies  the body and
embodiment.

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