From Goodwill to grunge : a history of secondhand styles and alternative economies /

Le Zotte, Jennifer,

From Goodwill to grunge : a history of secondhand styles and alternative economies / Jennifer Le Zotte. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Studies in United States culture .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781469631912


Secondhand trade--Social aspects--United States.
Vintage clothing--Social aspects--United States.
Thrift shops--Social aspects--United States.
Used clothing industry--Social aspects--United States.


Electronic Books.

HF5482 / .F766 2017