Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives

Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK, where her work is focused on gender, leisure, popular culture and subcultures.

• 1. Introduction .- 2. Studying Vintage (Or, What I Did) .- 3. "With Sentiment Still Attached": An Overview of Vintage .- 4. “A Form of Time Travel”: Everyday Vintage .- 5. “Search for Hours in a Dark Room”: Finding vintage .- 6. Expertise, Knowledge & Inherited Memories .- 7. Dressing Up and ‘Wardrobe Moments’ .- 8. ‘Sensual and Imaginative’: Glamour & the Vintage Body .- 9. Virtual & Physical: Vintage Places & Spaces .- 10. Conclusion: “I Like Living with the Past”.

“The book is a must read for anybody with an interest or involvement in the vintage scene, however, in examining the detail of a subculture through wider themes such as love, emotion, nostalgia and haunting, Holland ensures the book appeals to a wider audience than only those interested in or working on ‘vintage’. Holland’s attention to methods and methodology also gives this book a varied and widespread appeal. … this makes for invaluable advice for any future social researcher.” (Emma Beckett, Leisure Loisir, May 18, 2020)