Fashion Consumption By Plus-Sized Consumers: a Socio-Material Perspective

Using socio-materiality perspectives to explore fashion consumption practices of plus-sized consumers, this study finds that consumers attempt to maintain fashion assemblages despite factors that continually threaten to destabilize them. Fashion consumption is discussed as a process that must continuously be reproduced by consumers who seek embeddedness in desired fashion systems.



Citation:

Daiane Scaraboto (2013) ,"Fashion Consumption By Plus-Sized Consumers: a Socio-Material Perspective", in E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 10, eds. Gert Cornelissen, Elena Reutskaja, and Ana Valenzuela, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 9-12.

Authors

Daiane Scaraboto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile



Volume

E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 10 | 2013



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