Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives Ghosts & Glamour /

• Main Author: Holland, Samantha (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Culture.; Sociology.; Gender.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Sociology of Culture.; Gender Studies.; Culture and Gender.

This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the gendered and classed contexts of these...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Studying Vintage (Or, What I Did)
• 3. "With Sentiment Still Attached": An Overview of Vintage
• 4. "A Form of Time Travel": Everyday Vintage
• 5. "Search for Hours in a Dark Room": Finding vintage
• 6. Expertise, Knowledge & Inherited Memories
• 7. Dressing Up and 'Wardrobe Moments'
• 8. 'Sensual and Imaginative': Glamour & the Vintage Body
• 9. Virtual & Physical: Vintage Places & Spaces
• 10. Conclusion: "I Like Living with the Past". .