Practicing Sustainability: Illuminating ‘Use’ in Wearing Clothes

Gill, A; Lopes, AM; Kaye-Smith, H

Practicing Sustainability: Illuminating ‘Use’ in Wearing Clothes

Gill, A Lopes, AM Kaye-Smith, H

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Publisher:: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Cultural Studies Review, 2016, 22, (1), pp. 32-58
Issue Date:: 2016-04-04

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dc.contributor.author	Gill, A
dc.contributor.author	Lopes, AM
dc.contributor.author	Kaye-Smith, H
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-18T07:34:32Z
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dc.identifier.citation	Cultural Studies Review, 2016, 22, (1), pp. 32-58
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dc.description.abstract	Aspects of the ordinary in everyday dressing remain elusive to fashion studies, meaning the life of what Judy Attfield calls ‘design in the lower case’ escapes notice. In this article, the authors assemble a practice-oriented perspective to illuminate ‘wearing’ as an outcome of sets of commonplace and routine practices related to dressing, that wear a garment in and out over time, and enhance the visibility of clothing use. The central example is a research project that tests the theory of loosening the meaning of clean by trialling alternative laundering techniques to understand the transition to sustain-ability, or less resource-intensive competencies in the spectrum of clothing use. The promise of an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that draws from ‘theories of practice’ at the intersection of cultural studies, sociology and design is also tested as appropriate for the analysis of the quotidian realm of wearing and laundering; the analysis is particularly assisted with sustainable design research about the transition toward sustainable ways of living such as the development of ‘slow fashion’.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
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dc.subject	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing, 2002 Cultural Studies, 2005 Literary Studies
dc.title	Practicing Sustainability: Illuminating ‘Use’ in Wearing Clothes
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Abstract:

Aspects of the ordinary in everyday dressing remain elusive to fashion studies, meaning the life of what Judy Attfield calls ‘design in the lower case’ escapes notice. In this article, the authors assemble a practice-oriented perspective to illuminate ‘wearing’ as an outcome of sets of commonplace and routine practices related to dressing, that wear a garment in and out over time, and enhance the visibility of clothing use. The central example is a research project that tests the theory of loosening the meaning of clean by trialling alternative laundering techniques to understand the transition to sustain-ability, or less resource-intensive competencies in the spectrum of clothing use. The promise of an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that draws from ‘theories of practice’ at the intersection of cultural studies, sociology and design is also tested as appropriate for the analysis of the quotidian realm of wearing and laundering; the analysis is particularly assisted with sustainable design research about the transition toward sustainable ways of living such as the development of ‘slow fashion’.

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