About the conference
The conference is supported by the Fashion and Textiles Institute at Falmouth University and will take place at the University’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall, UK.
Dress Devolution 3 focuses on age as a category that excludes and challenges mainstream dress practices, both onscreen and off. Since the ‘youthquake’ of the 1960s, young people became the arbiters of taste and the key practitioners of fashion, popular culture and style. Many of the vanguard of this cultural shift are today octogenarian icons who continue to shape the cultural norms of their great grandchildren’s generation.
The conference is supported by the Fashion and Textiles Institute at Falmouth University and will take place at the University’s Penryn campus in Cornwall UK. The conference will feature 20-minute presentations, panels of three speakers, and 10-minute flashtalks on themes such as:
- Costuming age on screen
- Representing youth culture in media and onscreen
- Dandy grannies and grandma-core
- True vintage lifestyles
- Global challenges to youth’s dominance
- Wrinkly rockers, silver foxes, age and gender
- The silver sisters movement
- Plushies, Lolitas and childhood nostalgia