Old Clothes New Looks First Edition by Alexandra Palmer, Hazel Clark, Joanne Eicher ISBN 978-1859738573 1859738575

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ISBN 10:  1859738575

ISBN 13:  978-1859738573

Author: Alexandra Palmer, Hazel Clark, Joanne B. Eicher 

Recent interest in ‘vintage’ and second hand clothes by both fashion consumers and designers is only the latest manifestation of a long and complex cultural history of wearing and trading second hand clothes. With its origins in necessity, the passing of clothes between social and economic groups is now a global business, but with roots that are centuries old. To move from one social and cultural situation to another used clothes must be ‘transformed’ to become of potential value to a new social group. How, when and why this has happened is the subject of this book. Old Clothes, New Looks presents a three-part focus on the history, the trading culture, and the contemporary refashioning of second hand clothing. Historical perspectives include studies located in Renaissance Florence, early industrial England, colonial Australia, and mid twentieth-century Ireland. The global nature of the second hand trade in clothing is presented through original research from Zambia, India, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan. The reuse of garments as contemporary fashion statements is explored through studies that include neo-mod retro-sixties subculture in Germany, the impact of ‘vintage’ in the USA on consumers and designers, as well as consideration of its sartorial and cultural challenges, encapsulated by the work of designer XULY.Bet. This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all those interested in fashion and dress, material culture, consumption and anthropology, as well as to dealers, collectors and wearers of second hand clothes.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: Historical Perspectives

Introduction

Alexandra Palmer and Hazel Clark

1 The Florentine Rigattieri: Second Hand Clothing Dealers and the Circulation of Goods in the Renaissance

Carole Collier Frick

2 Shifting Currency: the Culture and Economy of the Second Hand Trade in England, c.1600-1850 Beverly Lemire

3 Cast-Offs: Civilization, Charity or Commerce? Aspects of Second Hand Clothing Use in Australia, 1788-1900

Margot Riley

4 Second Hand Silk Kimono Migrating Across Borders

Terry Satsuki Milhaupt

5 Parcels from America: American Clothes in Ireland, c.1930-1980

Hilary O’Kelly

Part 2: Trading Cultures

Introduction

Hazel Clark and Alexandra Palmer

6 Crafting Appearances: The Second Hand Clothing Trade and Dress Practices in Zambia Karen Tranberg Hansen

7 Creative Entrepreneurs: The Recycling of Second Hand Indian Clothing Lucy Norris

8 Ukay-Ukay Chic: Tales of Second Hand Clothing in the Philippine Cordillera

B. Lynne Milgram

9 Second Hand Fashion, Culture and Identity in Hong Kong Hazel Clark

Part 3: Contemporary Refashioning

Introduction

Alexandra Palmer and Hazel Clark

10 Sixties Dress Only! The Consumption of the Past in a Retro Scene

Heike Jenss

11 Vintage Whores and Vintage Virgins: Second Hand Fashion in the Twenty-first Century Alexandra Palmer

12 Working the Edge: XULY.Bet’s Recycled Clothing

Victoria Plain

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