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Negotiating vulnerability and attractiveness through dress

Hahmann, J.; Leontowitsch, M. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2024 · Heft 4 · S. 278 bis 283

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Zeitschrift
Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
Autor:innen
Hahmann, J.; Leontowitsch, M.
Ausgabe
Heft 4 / 2024
Jahrgang 57
Seiten
278 bis 283
Erschienen: 2024-05-16 00:00:24
ISSN
1435-1269
DOI
10.1007/s00391-024-02312-5

Zusammenfassung

The ageing female body is particularly exposed to the social gaze. While it should remain fit and durable as well as attractive and desirable, there is the danger of ridicule through supposedly too youthful or too outlandish performance. Women’s clothing practices can conform to social expectations, can circumvent them, can actively protest against them, and possibly change social demands. In every part of the process, i.e., the experience of bodily changes, the experience of social expectations, consumer choices, the practices of clothing and reactions to clothing choices, the body and getting dressed becomes a…

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Social Clothing Practices Vulnerability Expectations Dressed Through Women Process Experience Bodily Changes Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie