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From Goodwill to grunge : a history of secondhand styles and alternative economies / Jennifer Le Zotte.

Author/creator Le Zotte, Jennifer author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Descriptionxiv, 326 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
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.
Series Studies in United States culture
Studies in United States culture. ^A1288018
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2016024923
ISBN9781469631899 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN146963189X hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN9781469631905 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN1469631903 paperback alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book

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