A garment in the dock; or, how the FBI illuminated the prehistory of a pair of denim jeans

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 293-313

  Hauser, Kitty ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CCTV; Clothing; Commodity fetishism; Criminalistics; Denim; Individuation; Jeans; Wear

Indexed keywords

CRIME;

EID: 10244235281     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183504046895     Document Type: Article

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