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Jeans: fashion icon and material culture
| Resumo: | This paper aims to present the denim clothing, specifically jeans trousers, as a fashion icon. Seeks to present this product as material culture, considering material culture as detailed understanding of the symbolic properties that remain into the products. Also presents an understanding of how the consumption of jeans trousers happens, in that impregnated symbolic base that has been built upon them, during an evolution of meanings. It is concluded that the understanding of this product as material culture comes to contribute to making these meanings useful for both creators and consumers of these clothing, which can create different meanings for the same costume. |
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| Autores principais: | Broega, A. C. |
| Outros Autores: | Araújo, Raquel |
| Assunto: | Fashion Jeans Material culture Symbolic consumption |
| Ano: | 2014 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | This paper aims to present the denim clothing, specifically jeans trousers, as a fashion icon. Seeks to present this product as material culture, considering material culture as detailed understanding of the symbolic properties that remain into the products. Also presents an understanding of how the consumption of jeans trousers happens, in that impregnated symbolic base that has been built upon them, during an evolution of meanings. It is concluded that the understanding of this product as material culture comes to contribute to making these meanings useful for both creators and consumers of these clothing, which can create different meanings for the same costume. |
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