Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives

Focuses on emotions and connections to understand how vintage fans live with their belongings Examines gender and embodiment as played out through an adoption of glamour

Draws on empirical data consisting collected from attending vintage events, vintage shops, vintage dance festivals and vintage themed cafes

Autorentext

Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK, where her work is focused on gender, leisure, popular culture and subcultures.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction .- 2. Studying Vintage (Or, What I Did) .- 3. "With Sentiment Still Attached": An Overview of Vintage .- 4. A Form of Time Travel: Everyday Vintage .- 5. Search for Hours in a Dark Room: Finding vintage .- 6. Expertise, Knowledge & Inherited Memories .- 7. Dressing Up and 'Wardrobe Moments' .- 8. 'Sensual and Imaginative': Glamour & the Vintage Body .- 9. Virtual & Physical: Vintage Places & Spaces .- 10. Conclusion: I Like Living with the Past.