Venäläisten työväenluokkaisten nuorten vaatetrendit

Idäntutkimus. 2014. No. 2. P. 64–71.

Margarita Kuleva

Clothing and fashion play significant role in the process of ageing, helping to put the bodily experience in the context of culture (Twigg 2000). It is especially important for young people as social subjects, becoming independent and not having sufficient experience and social competences. In this case, clothing is the space of social experiment in which youngsters socialize, explore, measure and learn to construct presentations of their bodies.This paper focuses on the meaning of fashion and clothing in everyday life of Russian working class youth mainstream without subcultural (or any specific cultural) background. Following results is based on 61 IDI with trade schools students of St. Petersburg. Conventionally, students of trade school are related to working class in Russia, whether representatives of middle or higher class associate themselves with higher education (Walker 2000, Zaslavskaya 1997, Belenkii 2005).  

Keywords: дизайн, working class, рабочий класс, youth culture, sociology of fashion, российская молодежь, youth fashion

Publication based on the results of: Между дисциплиной и экспериментом: телесные режимы молодежи в повседневной жизни в современных российских социо-экономических условиях (2012)