From Goodwill to Grunge A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies / Jennifer Le Zotte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Zotte, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Studies in United States culture.

Studies in United States culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Used clothing industry--Social aspects--United States.

Used clothing industry.

Thrift shops--Social aspects--United States.

Thrift shops.

Vintage clothing--Social aspects--United States.

Vintage clothing.

Secondhand trade--Social aspects--United States.

Secondhand trade.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how the selling of secondhand goods came to be both profitable and culturally influential. Considering buyers and sellers from across the political and economic spectrum, Le Zotte shows how conservative and progressive social activists shrewdly used the exchange of secondhand goods for economic and political ends.

Contents:

Thrift stores and the Gilded Age shopper

Dressing Dada and the rise of flea markets

Garage sales and suburban subversiveness

The invention of vintage clothing

Elective poverty and postwar politics

Genderfuck and the boyfriend look

Connoisseurs of trash in a world full of it

Epilogue: popping tags in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908502-1-8

979-88-908502-2-5

1-4696-3192-X

1-4696-3191-1

OCLC:

971493681