A Stitch in Time: Changing Cultural Constructions of Craft and Mending
Over the course of the twentieth century, the availability of cheap, mass-produced fashion has contributed to a decline in everyday domestic mending skills. Indeed, as mass-manufactured goods have become cheaper for the global population it has become normative consumer behaviour to dispose of any i...
Main Author: | Anna König |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2013-12-01
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Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
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Online Access: | https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2079 |
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