"I Love It Very Much". The Intimate Relation with Garments. The Case of Thrift Fashion

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https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v4n7.163

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authenticity, style creation, thrift fashion, prosumer, vintage

Abstract

This article explores the meanings and values given to clothing by women who enjoy a trend we call thrift. In order to capture such meanings and appraisals, we present explanations, narrations and images from exploratory work carried out with thrift clothing retailers and buyers in Monterrey. With the support of images and narrations, we analyze the interaction and the emotional links that retailers and buyers have with clothing. We explain the intimate relation with the garments and the verbal and visual expression of such links, as part of the effort that the thrift community makes to obtain authenticity in the framework of the creation and consumption of clothing.

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Author Biographies

  • Efrén Sandoval Hernández, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

     Efrén Sandoval Hernández He is a research professor at the Northeastern Headquarters of the ciesas (Monterrey). He is a member of the National System of Researchers level 1. His work deals with "border economies" in the region of northeastern Mexico and South Texas. His most recent publication is (2020) "Winning 'clients' and managing favors. Union delegates in Monterrey tianguis", Sociological studies, 40 (118). In 2019 he coordinated (together with Martin Rosenfeld and Michel Peraldi) the book. The northern or southern hemisphere. Global production, cross-border trade and informal markets of used clothing. (Paris: Éditions Pétra / imera / ehess). He has been a professor in different national institutions, and has received funding for his research from national and international institutions.

  • Carolina González Castañeda, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

     Carolina González Castañeda (Kat Azul) is a visual artist. Intern for the degree in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Visual Arts of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. She is currently a fellow of the CIESAS External Thesis Scholarships Subprogram (2020 class), with the thesis project “Fashion, identity and thrift economy. Preparation, design and resale of vintage type used clothing ”. In 2019 she was the winner of the artistic residency “Spaces in Collision”, awarded by Sitio and the Council for Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León (CONARTE). His artistic project "Topofilia" was exhibited in 2018 at Galería Aparato, and in 2019 exhibited, for conarte and El Móvil, his work "Are you coming home? Or are you going home? Collectively, among others, he exhibited the work “Ucronías”, at the Galería Réplica, in Valdivia, Chile (2019).

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2021-03-23

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Vol. 4 No. 7 (2021): The Promises of Tomorrow. Calculating the Future in the Financial Practices of Today

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"I Love It Very Much". The Intimate Relation with Garments. The Case of Thrift Fashion. (2021). Encartes, 4(7), 203-228. https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v4n7.163