Shifting Cultures of Recycled Style: A History of Second-Hand Clothing Markets in Montreal

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Shifting Cultures of Recycled Style: A History of Second-Hand Clothing Markets in Montreal
Abstract
An examination of the cultural history of the evolving circuits through which discards of the fashion system pass. The focus is on three manifestations of the market: the female dominated charity circuits of the nineteenth-century into which the flow of used goods was redirected following the introduction of mass-produced garments; the revival of castoff clothing's stylish potential by punk and grunge subcultures in their respective creations of a poverty aesthetic; and the more heterogeneously mainstream market of the late 1980s and 1990s operating within a consumer environment seeped in nostalgia. The author focuses on the Montreal Ladies Benevolent Society and the role of the city's Anglophone elite in the "charity circuits" of the second half of the nineteenth century.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
1998
Language
en
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Citation
Diggins, Kimberly A. “Shifting Cultures of Recycled Style: A History of Second-Hand Clothing Markets in Montreal.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol1/QMM/TC-QMM-28259.pdf.
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