Dis/continued Selves: Why do Women Keep Clothes They No Longer Wear?

Guy, Ali; Banim, Maura

doi:10.2752/9781847888921/thrward0018

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“…They can facilitate the construction and retelling of embodied biographical narratives (Hockey, 2012;Twigg, 2009;Weber & Mitchell, 2004), which are shaped, as we noted, by complex and shifting intersections between different aspects of identity (Woodward, 2007). Due to their interconnection with memories of particular people, events and aspects of identity, people often 'hang on to' clothes long after they have stopped wearing them (Banim & Guy, 2001), or retain items of clothing which belonged to a deceased loved one (Ash, 1996;Hallam & Hockey, 2001).…”

Section: Clothing and The Materiality Of Dressmentioning

confidence: 93%

Dress, dementia and the embodiment of identity

Twigg

Buse

2013

Dementia

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The article explores the significance of dress in the embodied experience of dementia, exploring questions of identity, memory and relationship. It suggests that clothing and dress are important in the analysis of the day-to-day experiences of people with dementia, giving access to dimensions of selfhood often ignored in over-cognitive accounts of being. As a result clothing and dress can be significant to the provision of person-centred dementia care.These arguments are explored through ideas of embodied identity, the materialisation of memories, and the maintenance, or otherwise, of appearance in care. The article forms part of the background to an ESRC funded empirical study exploring the role of clothing and dress in the everyday lives of people with dementia, living at home or in care homes, and of their relatives.

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Section: Clothing and The Materiality Of Dressmentioning

confidence: 93%

Dress, dementia and the embodiment of identity

Twigg

Buse

2013

Dementia

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“…5.4 This means treating the consumption of shoes as a social process that goes beyond isolated purchases into cycles of use and re-use as goods are transformed through incorporation into everyday life (Miller et al 1998: 8). Banim and Guy (2001) suggest that clothing is consumed repeatedly, moving from ‘best’ to ‘work’ to ‘scruff’. In work on second-hand cultures, Gregson and Crewe (2003) similarly suggest that prioritising single acts of purchase masks cycles of use and re-use which, in cases such as shoes, may involve divestment rituals designed to overcome traces of previous ownership.…”

Section: Body Agency and Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear

Hockey

Dilley

Robinson

et al. 2013

Sociological Research Online

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This article raises questions about the role of footwear within contemporary processes of identity formation and presents ongoing research into perceptions, experiences and memories of shoes among men and women in the North of England. In a series of linked theoretical discussions it argues that a focus on women, fashion and shoe consumption as a feature of a modern, western ‘project of the self’ obscures a more revealing line of inquiry where footwear can be used to explore the way men and women live out their identities as fluid, embodied processes. In a bid to deepen theoretical understanding of such processes, it takes account of historical and contemporary representations of shoes as a symbolically efficacious vehicle for personal transformation, asking how the idea and experience of transformation informs everyday and life course experiences of transition, as individuals put on and take off particular pairs of shoes. In so doing, the article addresses the methodological and analytic challenges of accessing experience that is both fluid and embodied.

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“…As I mentioned earlier, in Woodward's 2007 study and in other contributions on similar topics (Guy andBanim 2000, 2001;Colls 2004), women's choices of clothing emerge as a mainly intellectual exploration of one's own identity and a conscious decision about which aspects of this identity to show and underline, given the social circumstances under which the choice is made and the characteristics of the situations in which the clothes have to be worn. In this perspective the process of dressing "becomes a means through which women attempt to convince others that they are a particular kind of person" (Woodward, 2007, 33); so choosing clothes and wearing them boils down to a "technology of the self" (Foucault 1988), where the mindful agent, equipped with a distinguished set of aesthetic taste materialised in the contents of her wardrobe, selects the scenic props that allow her to project the best "face" for whatever event.…”

Section: Affective Clothingmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Feeling of Being Dressed: Affect Studies and the Clothed Body

Ruggerone¹

2016

Fashion Theory

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Section 6 of the "Repository policy for OpenAIR @ RGU" (available from http://www.rgu.ac.uk/staff-and-currentstudents/library/library-policies/repository-policies) provides guidance on the criteria under which RGU will consider withdrawing material from OpenAIR. If you believe that this item is subject to any of these criteria, or for any other reason should not be held on OpenAIR, then please contact openair-help@rgu.ac.uk with the details of the item and the nature of your complaint. GREEN RUGGERONE, L. The feeling of being dressed: affect studies and the clothed body. 2016 RUGGERONE, L. 2016. The feeling of being dressed: affect studies and the clothed body. Fashion theory [online], 21(5), pages 573-593. Available from: http://dx.

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Dis/continued Selves: Why do Women Keep Clothes They No Longer Wear?

Cited by 35 publications

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Dress, dementia and the embodiment of identity

Dress, dementia and the embodiment of identity

Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear

The Feeling of Being Dressed: Affect Studies and the Clothed Body

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