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Først og fremst vil vi ønske deg velkommen som kollega! Dette er en veldig gledelig utvikling for Forbruksforskning Norge (SIFO) og vår klesforskningsgruppe, ved siden av selvfølgelig arbeidet i prosjektene du har ledelsen av arbeidspakker.… En samtale med Kate Fletcher

Durable or cheap? Parents’ acquisition of children’s clothing

Parents are faced with a plurality of choices and concerns when it comes to the acquisition of clothing for their children. This paper explores how parents employ longevity in consumption of children’s clothing from a practice-oriented perspective. The material consists of 6 focus groups with 40 parents who have at least one child under the age of 18. The aim of the groups was to establish children’s clothing needs: how many they need of each garment, how long parents expect the garment to last and what they understand as quality in clothing.

Dressing a Demanding Body to Fit In: Clean and Decent with Ostomy or Chronic Skin Disease

This article discusses what kind of strategies people with a stoma or various chronic skin conditions, such as psoriasis oratopic dermatitis, use to find clothes that fit and enable them to fit in. Based on qualitative interviews in Norway, we study how they manage to dress with a demanding body, a poor market and limited economic resources. This includes describing how purchases take place, which clothes fit, how much clothing is needed, and which laundry practices are used. Their main strategy was to reduce the requirements for their own appearance rather than to cleanliness and body odours. If they were unable to appear appropriately dressed, as a minimum odourless and stain-free, they reduced their participation in social life.