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Mackrell, Alice Ann. "Dress in the Style Troubadour, 1774 1814." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284798.
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Kimsey, Lisa P. (Lisa Pierce). "Dress Style, Counselor and Client Gender and Expectations About Counseling." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc798356/.
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This study explored the effects of counselor dress style and counselor and subject gender on clients' expectations about counseling. Two hundred fifty undergraduate students were given Tinsley's Expectations About Counseling questionnaire. Dress style was shown to have no effect on the expectations measured. Significant main effects were found for client gender, counselor gender and their two way interaction on the measures of responsibility, acceptance, confrontation, empathy, genuineness, tolerance, trustworthiness, concreteness, and immediacy. Post hoc analysis revealed that both male and female participants had higher expectations of female counselors than male counselors. Participants of both genders also expected female counselors to be more confrontive, genuine, trustworthy, concrete, and accepting than male counselors. They also had a higher expectation that counseling would address their immediate concerns.
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Pereira, Isabel Francisca de Vasconcelos Brito. "How to increase value for customers of style in a box: the first Portuguese online platform for renting luxury dresses." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11640.
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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsStyle in a Box (SIAB) is the first platform in Portugal promoting the online rent of high fashion dresses for a fraction of the retail price. The starting point of this work project was the low conversion rate faced by SIAB. It was a sign that visitors did not fully perceive the value in SIAB’s proposition. Accordingly arouse the need to answer how can Style in a Box increase the value to customers? Service, product, price and place were identified as the variables capable of impacting customer value. The key success factor for SIAB is to be able to lead Portuguese women to try the service for the first time. Consequently, it was crucial to understand which variables were contributing to delay the trial and for that purpose assumptions were constructed and further tested through an online survey and semistructured interviews. The research allowed concluding that price and place are the variables that are most likely responsible for deterring the visitors’ conversion. Thus, recommendations were proposed for SIAB to be able to improve the value of these variables, which is expected to boost the conversion rate.
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Kling, Marie. "Dressed for success : Faktorer som har varit avgörande för fem svenska klädskapares framgång." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-67994.
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Arbetets syfte är att beskriva och förstå vad fem stycken framgångsrika svenska klädskapare själva uttrycker som avgörande för sin framgång. Med framgång menas i arbetet framgång ekonomiskt sett. Metoden för arbetet har varit en deskriptiv studie med utgångspunkt i fem kvalitativa intervjuer. Respondenter som har visat positivt resultat i de tre senaste årsboksluten har valts ut att deltaga. Resultatet visar vilka faktorer som klädskaparna själva uttrycker vara avgörande för sin framgång. Faktorer som egen stil, hög kvalité, god ekonomi, god kundkontakt, marknadsföring,prisbild leveranssäkerhet samt hårt och roligt arbete har framkommit.Arbetet öppnar upp för vidare studier genom att ge förslag på frågor att utreda.
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McKinstry, Brian. "Patients' preferences for general practitioners' dress, mode of address, age and consulting style." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21409.
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This thesis presents four related pieces of research around the theme of how doctors present themselves to, and are perceived by, patients in the general practice consultation. The first study used photographs to examine patients' preferences for the way their general practitioners dress. It showed that patients preferred their doctors to dress in a formal or traditional way. Forms of dress associated with social success (a smart suit) and medical expertise (white coat) were found to be particularly popular. The second study used structured questionnaires to examine patients' preferences for how they wish to address and be addressed by their general practitioner. It showed that, while many patients were willing to have doctors refer to them by first name, they are unwilling to use the doctor's own first name. This may suggest willingness by patients to accord their general practitioner higher social status than themselves, or at least show deference to medical knowledge by use of the title. The third study also used structured questionnaires to explore patients' attitudes to the age of their doctor. The results of this study were inconclusive. Older doctors were accorded more positive attributes, and were considered to have more authority than younger doctors, but the distinction between age groups was most strongly influenced by the perception of younger doctors being up to date in their medical knowledge and the perceived greater experience of older doctors than any difference in authority. These three pieces of research suggested the possibility that, at least some patients, sought a doctor who presented as an expert or authoritative figure, and possibly a maternal/paternal figure, willing to take control of the consultation. This ran contrary to the prevailing view among medical educators that decision making in the consultation should almost always be shared between doctor and patient. This latter view appeared to be held on ideological grounds.
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Fehrenbacher, Morgan Mary. "Clothing style and color preferences for the socially active mature female." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998fehrenbacherm.pdf.
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Park, Jae Ok. "Clothing style preference of working women related to self- image/clothing-image congruity and public self-consciousness." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-140007/.
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Strubel, Jessica L. "The decline of music subcultures the loss of style meanings and subcultural identity /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1173232632.
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Huckabay, Dabney A. "Perceived body cathexis and garment fit and style proportion problems of petite women." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10062009-020234/.
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Todd, Wendy Leiko. "Development of a method for kinematic analysis of the doffing process for a specific garment style." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10242009-020310/.
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Bulman, Julie Catherine. "L'Habit en Révolution: Mode et Vêtements dans la France d'Ancien Régime [Revolution in Style: Dress and Fashion in Pre-Revolutionary France]." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/533.
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Thesis advisor: Ourida MostefaiThis thesis addresses the role of dress in the blurring of social class lines in pre-revolutionary France. The Ancien Régime had a set code for costume, in accordance with rank and birth. I outline this particular order, and the resulting disorder from this social structure through factual evidence and literary examples. The second part will discuss the creation and practice of fashion in the 18th century, leading up to the Estates General of 1789. This building significance of appearance in France made dress both a political and social tool that became incredibly useful during the French Revolution
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Romance Languages and Literature
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Belkaid, Leyla. "Le design comme fabrique de l'altérité : trajectoires sino-américaines et vêtements en devenir à New York." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20020.
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Basée sur une enquête de terrain à Manhattan, cette thèse appréhende le design en tant qu’arène transnationale de formation de la différence à partir de l’analyse des expériences, des pratiques créatives et de la production des designers de mode sino-américains nés en Asie orientale. Elle scrute les objets vestimentaires créés par un groupe de designers indépendants de la diaspora chinoise pour expliquer les cohérences et les dissonances des logiques identitaires et des processus mnémoniques qui influent sur leurs performances subjectivantes. Les récits de vie des designers et le contexte historique et social qui conditionne leurs parcours biographiques et artistiques sont examinés dans la première partie de l’essai. La seconde partie porte sur l’analyse comparative des traits stylistiques singularisants d’artefacts qui composent une sélection de collections de prêt-à-porter, selon la méthode des degrés du fait de Leroi-Gourhan. Les itinéraires sociaux hétérogènes de vêtements en circulation au moment de l’enquête à travers les réseaux commerciaux et médiatiques qui orientent leurs trajectoires de marchandises sont interrogés dans la troisème partie de la thèse. L’étude se poursuit par l’investigation des modes d’incorporation de la dynamique des innovations conçues par les designers diasporiques dans les styles de vie, les conduites sensori-motrices, les attitudes corporelles et les apparences des consommateurs. L’exploration des mécanismes par lesquels le capitalisme global opère sur les identités, les imaginaires, les objets, les techniques du corps et les techniques de soi des sujets met en lumière l’émergence de nouveaux “cosmopolitismes vernaculaires” associés à la conception, à la diffusion et au port du vêtement de mode contemporainBased on a fieldwork in Manhattan, the dissertation deals with design as a transnational arena for the formation of otherness through the analysis of the experiences, the creative practices and the production of Chinese-American fashion designers born in Eastern Asia. It scrutinizes the creative work of a group of independant designers from the Chinese diaspora to explain the coherences and the dissonances of the identity logics and the mnemonic processes which impact their subjective performances. The designers’ life stories and the historical and social context which determines their biographical and artistic pathways are examined in the first part of the dissertation.The second part addresses the comparative analysis of the stylistic distinguishing features of the artefacts which make up a selection of ready-to-wear collections, according to Leroi-Gourhan’s “fact degrees” method. The heterogeneous social routes of clothing items in circulation at the time of the inquiry through the commercial and media nets which drive their trajectories as commodities are questioned in the third part of the dissertation. The essay also investigates the modes of incorporation of the innovations fashioned by the diasporic designers in the lifestyles, the sensorial and motor behaviours, the bodily conducts and the appearances of the consumers. The exploration of the mecanisms through which global capitalism operates on the subjects’ identities, imaginaries, objects, bodily techniques and “technologies of the self” sheds light on the emergence of new “vernacular cosmopolitanisms” associated to the design, the dissemination and the display of contemporary dress
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Frööjd, Tobias. "When All Comes down to Clothes : An Interpretation of P.G. Wodehouse's The Inimitable Jeeves." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-21134.
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Abstract My aim for this paper is to analyse the character Jeeves' obsession with perfect clothing in P. G. Wodehouse's The Inimitable Jeeves (1923). My method has been to study the historical context of the British aristocracy at the time of the first publication of the book in 1923, as well as the previous four decades during which the author grew up and decisive changes in the British class society took place. This paper studies sources on the significance of clothing in general, and examines its importance at the time in particular. For my analysis I have borrowed elements from new historicism. The norms, traditions and values of the aristocracy lost in importance during this time, and the aristocracy was divided into individuals who were willing to adopt to these changes and others who fought to defy them. My conclusion is that Jeeves considers the strict dress codes to be an important symbol of the old aristocratic values that he has to defend, in order to legitimize his own position, as he is profoundly devoted to his calling of being a first class valet faithful to the old traditions. Wooster, then, acts as Jeeves' opponent on the matter as he embodies the part of the aristocracy willing to embrace the changes instead.
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Neiß, (Neiss) Michael, B. Sholts Sabrina, and Sebastian K. T. S. Wärmländer. "3D laser scanning as a tool for Viking Age studies." Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-180568.
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Three-dimensional (3D) laser scanners are becoming increasingly more affordable and user-friendly, making 3D-modeling tools more widely available to researchers in various countries and disciplines. In archaeology, 3D-modeling has the particular advantages of facilitating the documentation and analysis of objects that are fragile, rare, and often difficult to access. We have previously shown that 3D-modeling is a highly useful tool for shape analysis of archaeological bone material, due to the high measurement accuracy inherent in the latest generation of 3D laser scanners (Sholts et al. 2010; 2011). In this work, we explore the utility of 3D-modeling as a tool for Viking Age artefact analysis. To test the usefulness of 3D-modeling when analyzing artefacts with a very complex morphology, we chose highly ornate Viking Age baroque shaped brooches as study objects. These baroque shaped brooches constitute a group of dress ornaments mainly encountered in eastern Viking Age Scandinavia. Due to their large cast and/or attached bosses they obtain an almost baroque appearance, hence their name (cf. Jansson 1984: p. 81). They appear in two major versions, i.e. circular or equal armed, and in two kinds of material, i.e. silver- and copper-based alloys. Because of the position of bronze brooches in burial contexts, it appears they were used to fasten the cape or shawl in the female dress (cf. Jansson 1984: p. 75ff., Aagård 1984: p. 96ff.; Neiß 2006, figs. 3, 4; Capelle 1962: p. 106). For the present work a recently excavated brooch from Denmark was analyzed, together with three Russian brooches with nearly iconic status in the field of Viking Age studies. In the three case studies, we investigated possible uses of 3D-modeling for artefact analysis, artefact reconstruction, and tool mark and motif analysis. Exploring the usefulness of 3D-modeling for these purposes allowed us to draw conclusions regarding how 3D-analysis can be best incorporated into future artefact analysis. In addition, the case studies allowed us to gain new insights about the baroque shaped brooches and their uses.Forskningsfinansiärer: Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, Svenska institutet (Visby-programmet), Kungliga vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademin (Montelius minnesfond); Svenska fornminnesforeningen
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Kutílková, Dagmar. "Předpoklady vzniku novodobého pánského obleku(Obecné a jedinečné v typologii mužského dvorského, vojenského a církevního oděvu ve světle ikonografických a písemných pramenů v českých zemích raného novověku v rámci evropské kultury odívání)." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-326731.
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v anglickém jazyce The dissertation thesis with title "Presumptions of the formation of the modern men's suit" elaborates the general and unique features in the typology of men's court, military and ecclesiastical clothes. Research, which is based on written, iconographical and material sources, is aimed at environment at the court of the Austrian Habsburgs in early new ages from the end of the 15th century till beginning of the 90s of the 18th century having respect to history of clothing in the in Czech countries in the context with European clothing culture. The conception of the thesis goes out from the approach to men's suit in the history of clothing as to the cultural discipline. The main theoretic-metodological basis is investigsation of the general and the unique features in the concrete types of the men's clothing, which are characterized most of all of the contemporary construction (cut), material (cloth) and colours of the men's clothing and which has got the style-forming importance by means of these general features. The results of the research work amplifies not only the knowledge in the area of the clothing history, but also brings the possibility of practical application of this knowledge to increase of the cultural values of written, iconographical and material memories with time,...
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Min, Yu-Tsui, and 尤翠敏. "Dresser Furniture Design For Ladies Employee From Life Style." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78009085604239313648.
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碩士大葉大學
設計研究所
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The consumable ability of ladies employee has increased recently ; however ,they also have to face the pressure from their work ,their family ,and the society. Owing to the increasing of women’s salary , women’s consumable market has been noticed. But , furniture design is still considered by the whole concept .It has never considered designing a product according to ladies employee’s need. The main purpose of this research is to discuss the application of ladies employee’s life style reflected on the design of a dresser. Try ladies employee’s life style and background. Moreover , try to find out the living custom and behavior of using furniture in ladies employee’s group from humanized product’s viewpoint. Then , we can try to understand the utilized element of dresser related to consumer style of purchasing furniture products in ladies employee’s group. And , we can analyze and survey the utilized demand of using dresser of ladies employee. Therefore , we try to apple the results of this research to design a real furniture product. This questionnaire chooses ladies employee to be our examiner , and then analyze and make a research and discussion through the result of the questionnaire. According to our data , we discover that the interviewee will have different basic elements. Thus , it is impossible to design a dresser available to all ladies employee’s utilized demand .In this case , this research will confine to the ladies employee who have independent thinking ability and social ability to be our subject and make a research to figure out the connection between life style and utilized behavior of using a dresser through humanized demand concept. We choose ladies employee who have thinking and social ability to be our study subject , and make a research and analyze the data through statistic method. In the last analysis , we can apply the results of this research to be the ideal and main point of designing a real dresser.
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Nguyen, Thi Tuyet-Mai, and 阮氏雪梅. ""The Legendary Love" – A collection of western style wedding dress inspired with "Four-panel dress" style and patterns from “DongHo painting and DongSon drum” Vietnamese culture." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17258324137108535388.
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碩士樹德科技大學
應用設計研究所
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he integration between the exquisiteness of traditional patterns and the styles of traditional cultural costumes; combining with the modern look of western wedding dress will give my collection a niche, praising Vietnamese culture and modern aspects with the introduction of “The Legendary Love” to bring the excellence of Vietnamese culture to the world. Hence, my research has been formulated as the following: (1) Ideas of styles: choosing the four-panel dress with ''AoYem'' is the traditional wedding dress costume of north Vietnamese women until the 20th century. (2) Ideas of embroidery patterns (main point in thesis), choosing traditional Vietnamese culture patterns: Patterns and scripts from DongSon drums (The essences of Vietnamese culture and its courageousness) and DongHo paintings (portraying the simple, friendly way of life of Vietnamese peoples). This combination accentuates the traditional beauty, the feminine, the attraction and loyalty of Vietnamese women. (3) Method of embroidery: Choosing the traditional hand embroidery in Vietnam. Fabric materials: the main fabrics used are the traditional fabrics available in Vietnam. (4) Key colors of fabric: choosing red and yellow (two traditional wedding colors in Vietnam). Colors design of embroidery patterns: use the colors on the original paintings or patterns. (5) Design and make the wedding dress collection which is named "The Legendary Love".
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CHEN, YI-HSUAN, and 陳億瑄. "The Application of Chinese Style and Image in Wedding Dress Design." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4r8574.
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In recent years, the wedding industry has risen rapidly. The "Bridal Street" cultural industry can also be seen around every corner in Taiwan. Unlike the 19th century, the civilians in the Western world put on their wedding dresses, which is the imagination of the upper class, for modern people wedding dresses play an essential role in inheriting. During the internship in the bridal shop, the study found that in addition to domestic customers, foreign guests also came to take wedding photos. They wanted to integrate oriental elements into the modern Western wedding styles, so their memories in life can also reflect cultural heritage. The purpose of this study mainly divides into five points: 1) Screening and sorting out traditional Chinese image elements; 2) Using focus group method to analyze typical Chinese style and suitable for wedding dresses Design image elements. 3) Designed for the image elements after the screening, through three digits of media and designers who visually convey the relevant background, and applied to Chinese style wedding dress design. 4) The thirty-six Chinese style image elements will be designed and analyzed by the results of the image preference survey, and the six most popular preferences will be analyzed and applied to the wedding design. 5) Six Chinese style image elements selected and complete six sets of Chinese style wedding concept designs. Based on literature reviews, the analysis re-synthesizes the traditional Chinese image elements, which divide into 1)animals, 2)plants, 3)utensils, 4)patterns. Using expert questionnaires, through the eight experts in the field of fashion design, we can select the image elements that represent the Chinese style and are also suitable for the design of fashion wedding dresses. Then we will analyze and design the six elements with the highest score, and invite three designers to design. Thirty-six images and six image elements were selected through the image questionnaire survey, and apply them to the eastern-western fusion wedding dress design. This study uses six Chinese style elements such as phoenix, peacock, peony flower, embroidered ball, Ru-Yi, and cloud to carry out six wedding dress designs. In each design, the image features of the element used as the tailoring and designing points. Finally, using the color of Chinese style, the wedding dress is a combination of classical and modern, showing the unique culture of the East.
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Makina, Rumbidzai Charity. "The role of dress style for senior women in a corporate consulting firm." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12336.
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M.Phil. (Leadership in Performance and Change)Studies by numerous authors such as Damhorst, Jondle, and Youngberg (2005), Damhorst (2005), Hymowitz (2005), Miller-Spillman (2005), Peluchette, Karl, and Rust (2006), Rafaeli, Dutton, Harquail, and Mackie-Lewis (1997), Rafaeli and Pratt (1993), and Schmalz (2000a) have corroborated the belief that appearance and dress style are important and significant factors in a person’s career progression. This is because people are often judged on their outward appearance in the first four to 10 seconds of the first interaction. Additionally, the way women dress is scrutinised more than men because of pre-existing notions about what constitutes masculinity and femininity (Kalkowski & Fritz, 2004; Omair, 2009). Rarely are these first impressions changed, and often the decision for future interactions are made based on these first impressions. There may also be an impact on women’s career progression due to the opinions of their co-workers, partly based on the women’s dress style.
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LUE, LO MENG, and 羅芷婕. "Research on psychology of The Dress and Style-Taking The Mini-skirt for Example." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63261636191394471595.
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碩士大葉大學
造形藝術學系碩士班
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ABSTRACT Since Marry Quant who first invented the mini-skirt with vivid colors and patterns in 1966, that set in motion the trend of the mini-skirt. Marry Quant created the shortest skirt in fashion history,Today, the mini-skirt is coming back to the fashion stage. Why mini-skirt is so irresistible? The main aim of this study is to find the psychology of clothes in Taiwan and take mini-skirt as example. There are four parts in this study. First, the researcher stated the purpose of this study, and then explored a brief history of costumes for human being in the Western culture and Chinese tradition. Second, an explanation of method that the researcher has taken for this study: The stimuli were three pairs of mini-skirts assorted with red, blue and black colors. Subjects for answering the questionnaires there were 195 valid answers collected mostly younger male and female population. In the third part, it contains many results of data treatment. The researcher used statistic soft SPSS 10.1 version for calculation and analysis tool and showed many charts and semantic differential profiles, Reliability and validity for each question toward different length and colors of each mini-skirts were calculated and show its satisfactory. The researcher put emphasis on diversion of grading and showed many histogram charts to observe the diversities for bi-polar adjectives. The final part, the researcher has concluded this study and made suggestion about future study about this subject, which could be cover the whole Taiwan area if there is a financial support to carry the study.
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"More than a Pretty Dress: Rhetoric of Style & Identity Construction of Stateswomen Fashion Icons." Doctoral diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.49215.
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abstract: This research examines four stateswomen fashion icons—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diana, Princess of Wales, Michelle Obama, and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge—and the way these stateswomen used clothing and personal style to create a public identity. Dress is a powerful tool of personal expression and identity creation and when we look at stateswoman style, we see the ways that dress gives them agency to negotiate the “official” identity that’s being placed on them. Personal style is the way we use personal adornments (clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, etc.) to form messages about who we are, who we dream we could be, and what our personal values are. It is a system of communication with rhetorical influence on others that, in return, offers a way to embrace, challenge, or subvert societal expectations and cultural norms. The choice to embrace, challenge, or subvert to the expectations is fluid, and the women continuously move back and forth between these states. I argue for the ways the selected women in this analysis make choices and negotiate such expectations on the national stage through their clothing choices.
While personal style does not construct our identities on its own, our dress is often the first indicator of our identity and personality. Dress, therefore, becomes one way to express our identity, even in situations where we are otherwise silenced. Stateswomen are “not body as advertisement”—as celebrities are—but “body as a source of agency.” For every woman, stateswomen included, clothing is a rhetorical statement that they make every day. These women exemplify the way choices can be made powerfully—because they are “like us” more than fashion icons. These stateswomen icons show the public evolving negotiations between personal and public style and identity. They demonstrate the ways that clothing choices can be empowering ways to construct identity and use clothing as an identity statement. This is instrumental in helping average women of the public learn how they can use clothing as a rhetorical statement that creates agency and identity.Dissertation/Thesis
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Hale, Andrew Douglas. "The effects of race, gender and clothing style on stereotype activation /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/1221.
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Simmons, Fiona. "Ukuthwasa style : meaning, significance and change in beadwork and apparel in the White River area of eastern Mpumalanga." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4514.
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M.Tech.The aim of my research is to discover how the garments, beadwork and accoutrements worn and used by proponents of the ukuthwasa1 subculture manifest meaning and significance amongst healers and initiates in the White River area, Eastern Mpumalanga. The visual language and style of traditional healers in this region is unique in South Africa, as it is informed by belief systems incorporating primarily the Nguni2 and the Emandzawe3 cultures. Also, they are influenced by the combined garment styles of the Swazi, and to a lesser extent the Shangaan and Tsonga people resident in this area. I suggest, therefore that ukuthwasa style in this region acts as a visual repository of these amalgamated cultures, which I visually substantiate through relevant photographic documentation. This study includes considerations of the way in which ritual objects, shrines and architectural spaces are dressed and decorated. Furthermore I examine how the beadwork and apparel aid in constructing and establishing identity and status within the designated society, and how, over and above the dictates of their tradition, personal preferences and different ways of teaching doctrine allow for individual interpretation. I also examine ways in which dress and beadwork serve as a site of knowledge and healing, and results in a fluidity of artistic expression, which defies categorisation and constantly invigorates the existing culture. Lastly, I consider change through urbanization and its impact on this culture.
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Kim, Min Ju. "Influence of cultural differences on dress style and identity changes of South Korean female college students in the United States." 2008. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/kim%5Fmin-ju%5F200808%5Fms.
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Chow, Christina Wing Sum. "unDressing Spectacle: An Architectural Discourse on the Event of Space." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6550.
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Woven within fashion and dress is the innate ability to create atmosphere and transformative experiences. Architecturally, the façade of a building acts as its skin, having responsibilities that exceed the functions of shelter and materiality. The process of dressing buildings create and shape dynamic relationships with all the elements of its surroundings. Beyond the basic need for convenience and protection, both practices operate as part of a larger world of personified and tailored objects that create ambience and space.
This thesis, entitled unDressing Spectacle, explores the parallels between the fashion and architecture within the context of their own industries as well as each other’s. Themes of dress and undress are juxtaposed onto both crafts - literally and metaphorically - at three different scales: the adornment of the individual; the design object within society and the urban fabric; and the discourse between branding and the economic condition.
Creating the framework for fantastic events within the urban fabric, this thesis takes the form of a Fashion & Design Event Centre upon which the discourse between user and the design object unfolds. Placed in Toronto’s vibrant west end, the building is a symbol of permanence and an icon for fashion and design. The proposed design is the manifestation of the inherent conflict within the thesis, juxtaposing fashion’s ability to seduce and manufacture desires with the complex structuring of neutral spaces to allow for a multiplicity of users and events. At the city scale, the luminous and dynamic layers of building skin attracts and lures; as users approach and ultimately enter the building, the imagery is transformed into unique atmospheric experiences. This thesis harnesses the glamour of fashion as the medium to ignite the re-imagination of architecture’s value and the interpretation of beauty and style, providing the means for experiences to transcend into a world of spectacle.