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This empirically grounded article draws on an ESRC-funded project on footwear, identity and transition to offer new understandings of how a linear model of the life course may, in practice, be disrupted, subverted or reconfigured. Combining the insights of material culture and life course studies, it develops the notion of a temporal landscape of shoes within which their scope for interrupting life course temporalities can be explored. In particular, it identifies four temporal strategies made possible through the symbolic efficacy of footwear: the retrieval of an earlier identity through the purchase of styles previously worn; the deferral of later life by rejecting comfortable shoes that might symbolically reposition someone as ‘old’; the release of former age-based identities and the embracing of freedom from a felt need to wear impractical or painful shoes; the appropriation or reconfiguring of the past as a contemporary resource through the wearing of vintage/hand-me-down shoes.This article stems from a paper presented to the British Sociological Association's Ageing, Body and Society Study Group. Two years into an ESRC-funded project on footwear, identification and transition,1 we knew the importance of foot health for older adults; that lost mobility could undermine social and physical well-being. Yet to consider footwear and identity among older adults as primarily a question of how physiological changes reduce comfort and therefore choice is to reproduce stereotypes of later life as diminishment, and to privilege a linear model of time. Instead, what interests us is the ‘bit of room for manoeuvre’ that Jamie refers to, her suggestion that despite being placed in landscape and time, agency can be mobilized.Christine,2 in her 60s, described how her mother, Ellen, changed from someone who hated ‘old age’, worried about her appearance, was obsessively busy with housework, to someone inactive and disconnected from life. Ellen had continued ballroom dancing into her late 70s, managing high-heels with style. But falls and deteriorating mobility forced her into ‘sensible’ shoes. Christine said, ‘when she died Susie, my daughter, and I … chose clothes for the coffin and the outfit … was smart – but still glamorous. We looked at [her] shoes and agreed that Nana could not be seen dead in them! In a … department store, we found just the right ones – … extremely elegant, not too high, looked expensive (indeed they were) and something she could wear to a dance. … Buying the shoes gave us a real sense of achievement … something really important … we knew she would have loved.’
This empirically grounded article draws on an ESRC-funded project on footwear, identity and transition to offer new understandings of how a linear model of the life course may, in practice, be disrupted, subverted or reconfigured. Combining the insights of material culture and life course studies, it develops the notion of a temporal landscape of shoes within which their scope for interrupting life course temporalities can be explored. In particular, it identifies four temporal strategies made possible through the symbolic efficacy of footwear: the retrieval of an earlier identity through the purchase of styles previously worn; the deferral of later life by rejecting comfortable shoes that might symbolically reposition someone as ‘old’; the release of former age-based identities and the embracing of freedom from a felt need to wear impractical or painful shoes; the appropriation or reconfiguring of the past as a contemporary resource through the wearing of vintage/hand-me-down shoes.

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