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Sheer Drift
SHEER DRIFT: The Snake America Newsletters (1-100) is a body of work about valuable and rare things (about 400 eBay auctions for vintage clothes, furniture and similar. Much of this book can be considered reference material: descriptions, stories and provenance regarding a wide variety of sportswear and American men’s vintage produced between the 30s and 80s. The info is based off the author's own extensive collection of reference materials and vintage samples, as well as interviews with vintage sellers and collectors, and, mostly, research.
Sheer Drift also functions as a narrative work about vintage as a product category, a substratum of the clothing market that is half black economy, half black hole; a place without rules. Taken together, the collection of items in Sheer Drift—some valuable, some properly valued, some not—show the seams in how Americans approach clothing, both new and old. Or anything that might be more or less valuable than its sticker price.
Sheer Drift also functions as a narrative work about vintage as a product category, a substratum of the clothing market that is half black economy, half black hole; a place without rules. Taken together, the collection of items in Sheer Drift—some valuable, some properly valued, some not—show the seams in how Americans approach clothing, both new and old. Or anything that might be more or less valuable than its sticker price.
460 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2022
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November 20, 2023
I should just reread this instead of reading something else.
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