[ebooks] Woodlake (Images of America) by Marsha Ingrao at Arts-Photography

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The valuing of old clothes as "vintagedagger;? 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;dagger;? 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.