TY - JOUR
T1 - Motivations for Private Collecting
AU - Bishop, Susan
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Fashion Theory on 15/02/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1362704X.2018.1425515
PY - 2018/2/15
Y1 - 2018/2/15
N2 - In his seminal text, Collecting in a Consumer Society (1995), Russell W. Belk proposed that modern hedonists live out their desires through the consumption of goods. Other texts contained herein have made explicit that collecting dress is in many respects, unlike collecting other media, not least because the acquisition is not strategic. Clothes are usually bought to be worn, and the fact that a group of dress might at some point constitute a collection often "creeps up" on the wearer. Using oral testimony as the core methodology, this paper explores some individual and intriguing personal motivations for four private collectors of women's dress.
AB - In his seminal text, Collecting in a Consumer Society (1995), Russell W. Belk proposed that modern hedonists live out their desires through the consumption of goods. Other texts contained herein have made explicit that collecting dress is in many respects, unlike collecting other media, not least because the acquisition is not strategic. Clothes are usually bought to be worn, and the fact that a group of dress might at some point constitute a collection often "creeps up" on the wearer. Using oral testimony as the core methodology, this paper explores some individual and intriguing personal motivations for four private collectors of women's dress.
U2 - 10.1080/1362704X.2018.1425515
DO - 10.1080/1362704X.2018.1425515
M3 - Article
SN - 1362-704X
JO - Fashion theory
JF - Fashion theory
ER -