This week, my friends over at Standard & Strange published my paper on the influence of Military Surplus on American collegiate fashion. This paper makes up a portion of my MA Thesis, which will expand on many of the ideas explored here. It begins in the immediate postwar period when WWII veterans on the GI Bill flooded college campuses wearing a hodge-podge of old uniforms and continues to the 1960s when students adopted military fashions in protest to the ongoing war in Vietnam and American consumerism. I’ll ket the paper pick up below. For the full text
Vol. 03 No. 02
Vol. 03 No. 02
Vol. 03 No. 02
This week, my friends over at Standard & Strange published my paper on the influence of Military Surplus on American collegiate fashion. This paper makes up a portion of my MA Thesis, which will expand on many of the ideas explored here. It begins in the immediate postwar period when WWII veterans on the GI Bill flooded college campuses wearing a hodge-podge of old uniforms and continues to the 1960s when students adopted military fashions in protest to the ongoing war in Vietnam and American consumerism. I’ll ket the paper pick up below. For the full text