Speaking of Fashion: Consumers' Uses of Fashion Discourses and the Appropriation of Countervailing Cultural Meanings

This article explores the ways that consumers use fashion discourse to inscribe their consumption behaviors in a complex ideological system of folk theories about the nature of self and society. Verbatim texts of 20 phenomenological interviews concerning consumers' perceptions and experiences o...

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Consumer tastes
Consumers
Consumption
Discourse Analysis
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Fashion models
Fashions
Hegemony
Phenomenology
Social Psychology
Studies
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