Traditionally associated with domesticity, safety pins were appropriated by the 1970s punk movement as a form of decoration that signaled a refusal to participate in mainstream domestic culture and disdain for the dreary norms of everyday consumer culture. Another term for this type of signifying practice is ____________.

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Bricolage refers to the practice of reusing and repurposing existing materials and cultural artifacts to create new meaning or aesthetics. The use of safety pins as a form of punk fashion is an example of bricolage, as it involves taking a mundane object traditionally associated with domesticity and re-appropriating it for a subversive, anti-establishment purpose. The other answer choices (strategy, habitus, kitsch) do not accurately describe this practice.

Traditionally Associated with Domesticity, Safety Pins Were Appropriated by the 1970s