Mending at the Margins

Mending at the Margins

Gene Badger, Man Assembling Leather Football Shoes, 1941. Courtesy ICP. This article is based on a multi-sited ethnography with proprietors of everyday high-street launderettes with garment alteration and shoe repair services in a multi-racial London locale, my own neighbourhood of close to two decades. Flipping between theory and life writing through autoethnography, this project blurs the boundaries between work and (my) home, revealing how re…