Love-Clothes: Exploring Post-Consumptive Narratives Stored in Contemporary British Wardrobes

爱情衣服：探索当代英国衣柜中储存的消费后叙事

• 批准号: 2593619
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2593619
• 关键词: Love; Clothes; Exploring; Post; Consumptive

Research in fashion studies has tended to focus on the clothing of the young or, more recently,the very old, leaving middle-aged working women's experience of dress largely unexplored. Thisproject's feminist approach to material culture aims to correct this absence, making theseoverlooked relationships to everyday dress visible through in-depth wardrobe interviews andsensory ethnography.Having conducted an initial version of this study for my MA Dissertation (2020), I found thatnone of my participants had considered clothing through the lens of love before. Theconversations about the love stories they associated with their clothing revealed a complexdesire/shame dichotomy around clothing consumption that merits further study. By positioning Mundigo-Moore 2love clothing as an autobiographical access point, this project will foreground these women'sspecific life experiences-menopause, having grown-up children, gaining seniority at work,change in health and to significant relationships-to develop a counter-dominant rhetoricaround the participants' relationships to clothes which subverts orthodoxies around love, desire,fashion and fashionability in mid-life.

时尚研究的研究往往集中在年轻人的服装上，最近又集中在老年人的服装上，而对中年职业女性的着装体验基本上没有进行探索。该项目对物质文化的女权主义方法旨在纠正这种缺失，通过深入的衣柜访谈和感官民族志，使这些被忽视的与日常着装的关系变得可见。在为我的硕士论文（2020）进行了这项研究的初始版本后，我发现我的参与者没有一个以前曾从爱情的角度考虑过服装。关于他们与服装相关的爱情故事的对话揭示了围绕服装消费的复杂的欲望/羞耻二分法，值得进一步研究。通过将 Mundigo-Moore 2love 服装定位为自传式的切入点，该项目将突出这些女性的具体生活经历——更年期、生育成年子女、获得工作资历、健康状况的变化以及重要的人际关系——以发展一种反围绕参与者与服装的关系的主导言论颠覆了中年时期关于爱情、欲望、时尚和时尚的正统观念。