Explore the relationship between garments and their wearers where secondhand objects are excavated from personal archives, inherited as hand-me-downs, preserved as family heirlooms, and recontextualized through stylization.
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Using inherited garments, how is the choice of clothing significant in the context of the wearer’s surroundings and culture? How does it communicate one’s self-identity as a second-generation immigrant?
When we dress ourselves, we are visually narrating to the world how we wish to be seen. Therefore, styling is a form of storytelling. It is a medium that provides a framework to exhibit cultural connections and ethnic pride celebrated through place and time; the outfit tells a story. Author Nicole K. Rivas combines visual and material culture to investigate sartorial representations of self-identity from the perspective of first-generation Americans using garments of the past through contemporary archaeology.
Touching on themes of memory, upbringing, culture, and autonomy, this book is ideal reading for students of Fashion and Personal Style, Textiles, Art, Material Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, and History.
Nicole K. Rivas is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at St John’s University.
Using inherited garments, how is the choice of clothing significant in the context of the wearer’s surroundings and culture? How does it communicate one’s self-identity as a second-generation immigrant?
When we dress ourselves, we are visually narrating to the world how we wish to be seen. Therefore, styling is a form of storytelling. It is a medium that provides a framework to exhibit cultural connections and ethnic pride celebrated through place and time; the outfit tells a story. Author Nicole K. Rivas combines visual and material culture to investigate sartorial representations of self-identity from the perspective of first-generation Americans using garments of the past through contemporary archaeology.
Touching on themes of memory, upbringing, culture, and autonomy, this book is ideal reading for students of Fashion and Personal Style, Textiles, Art, Material Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, and History.
Nicole K. Rivas is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at St John’s University.
