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Accepted Paper:
Paper Short Abstract:
If the prefabricated, designed narratives of clothes is re-written and altered by peoples vestimentary practices, then what happens once such personalised clothes are to be discarded? This paper investigates the processes and storytelling in practices concerning clothes donations for secondhand and reuse. It documents how peoples’ contradictory attitudes towards donations of ‘private’ clothes complicate the transition towards a circular economy of textile. Through ethnographic data obtained from 2024-25 in Denmark, it exemplifies how there exist, simultaniously, a narrative stressing the ‘greener good’ of donating instead of discarding clothes, while in practice this narrative is being unwritten by people’s aversions towards donating ‘personal’ clothes. Thus, the paper unfolds how the transition towards a circular economy of textile is negotiated between the moral imperative/narrative of a ‘greener good’ and sentiments of deeply personal feelings towards and identifications with one’s clothes.
Paper Abstract:
If the prefabricated, designed narratives of clothes is un-written and altered by peoples vestimentary practices, then what happens once such personalized clothes are to be discarded?
This paper investigates the processes and storytelling in practices concerning clothes donations for secondhand and reuse. It documents how peoples’ contradictory attitudes towards donations of ‘private’ clothes complicate the transition towards a circular economy of textile. Through ethnographic data obtained from 2024-25 in Denmark, it exemplifies how there exist, simultaniously, a narrative stressing the ‘greener good’ of donating instead of discarding clothes, while in practice this narrative is being unwritten by people’s aversions towards donating ‘personal’ clothes. Thus, the paper unfolds how the transition towards a circular economy of textile is negotiated between the moral imperative/narrative of a ‘greener good’ and sentiments of deeply personal feelings towards and identifications with one’s clothes.
Un-writing and re-writing dress narratives. Storytelling in individual vestimentary practices
Session 2