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7 - Youth and Urban Cultures of Consumption

from Part III - Fashionable Transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2023

Karen Tranberg Hansen
Karen Tranberg Hansen
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
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The rapid postcolonial growth of the capital Lusaka, along with the huge expansion of the informal economy, has opened numerous developments in clothing practices and cultures of consumption. Zambians creatively make fashion their own in an increasingly globalised world where dress influences flow in multiple directions and the West no longer is the final arbiter of style. With focus on young women and men, the discussion examines the secondhand clothing market as a popular source for the fulfilment of clothing desires, while discussing the cultivation of appearances along with some of the dress dilemmas that arise from youth, gender, and location.

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Corporate wearsuitsjeansoffice attireclothing competencesecondhand clothingsalaulaapamwamba
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Dress Cultures in Zambia
Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life
 , pp. 119 - 139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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