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MAGNENAT-THALMANN, NADIA, PASCAL VOLINO, and LAURENT MOCCOZET. "DESIGNING AND SIMULATING CLOTHES." International Journal of Image and Graphics 01, no. 01 (2001): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219467801000025.
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The most intuitive and natural approach for building garments takes its inspiration from the traditional garment industry where garments are created from two-dimensional patterns and then seamed together. MIRACloth uses this approach. Working with 2D patterns is the simplest way of keeping an accurate, precise and measurable description and representation for a cloth surface. In the traditional garment and fashion design approach, garments are usually described as a collection of cloth surfaces, tailored in fabric material, along with the description of how these patterns should be seamed together to obtain the final garment. Our virtual garment design system reproduces this approach by providing a framework for accurately designing the patterns with the information necessary for their correct seaming and assembly. Subsequently, these are placed on the 3D virtual bodies and animated along with the virtual actor's motion. In the following sections, we describe the different components — mechanical model, numerical resolution, collision detection and collision response — to develop for the simulation of clothes, then, we provide the different steps and tasks involved in dressing virtual actors, constructing and animating garments on them.
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Korosteleva, Maria, and Sung-Hee Lee. "NeuralTailor." ACM Transactions on Graphics 41, no. 4 (2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3528223.3530179.
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The fields of SocialVR, performance capture, and virtual try-on are often faced with a need to faithfully reproduce real garments in the virtual world. One critical task is the disentanglement of the intrinsic garment shape from deformations due to fabric properties, physical forces, and contact with the body. We propose to use a garment sewing pattern, a realistic and compact garment descriptor, to facilitate the intrinsic garment shape estimation. Another major challenge is a high diversity of shapes and designs in the domain. The most common approach for Deep Learning on 3D garments is to build specialized models for individual garments or garment types. We argue that building a unified model for various garment designs has the benefit of generalization to novel garment types, hence covering a larger design domain than individual models would. We introduce NeuralTailor, a novel architecture based on point-level attention for set regression with variable cardinality, and apply it to the task of reconstructing 2D garment sewing patterns from the 3D point cloud garment models. Our experiments show that NeuralTailor successfully reconstructs sewing patterns and generalizes to garment types with pattern topologies unseen during training.
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Martin, Nancy V., and Connie Ulasewicz. "Building community partnerships through clothing repair, reuse and redesign." International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles 4, no. 1 (2025): 93–111. https://doi.org/10.1386/sft_00057_1.
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Unsaleable clothing donated to nonprofit thrift stores continues to pose challenges to the recirculation of goods through the economy. The primary aim of this study was to explore the options available for removing these donations from the waste stream. The San Francisco Garment Repair Pilot was a collaboration among several entities investigating garments donated to San Francisco Goodwill Industries with the potential for cleaning, repair, or redesign and potential sales on e-commerce. Project coordinators sent chosen garments to licensed contractors for mending and cleaning, and students in one university apparel design programme used creative solutions to give damaged goods new life. Due to the custom nature of the repair and redesign, the coordinators deemed outsourcing financially unprofitable. However, the researchers identified that it benefited apparel programmes by widening pedagogical approaches, so the study evolved into a project that incorporated sustainability theories into apparel design curricula as a skillset students can bring to future careers. Results included the realization that customers were more apt to purchase a repaired product when provided with before and after data and that items identified as damaged still generated sales. The outcomes of this project support the relevancy of challenging students to design desirable, sustainable and durable products that adhere to circular economy goals.
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Dowdell, Carolyn. "‘No Small Share of Ingenuity’: An Object-Oriented Analysis of Eighteenth-Century English Dressmaking." Costume 55, no. 2 (2021): 186–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cost.2021.0199.
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This article details eighteenth-century English dressmaking through an in-depth, object-oriented exploration of garment construction practices and techniques from a maker's perspective. Building upon prior scholarship of women's work and aspects of pre-industrial English garment trades, this article employs primary and secondary source materials in conjunction with extensive object-based research of extant garments. The research findings outline exactly how pre-industrial English dressmakers’ skills were nuanced, sophisticated and adaptive to making and remaking, as well as the personal, haptic connections they cultivated with their work.
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Ramzan, Muhammad Babar, Muhammad Salman Habib, Muhammad Omair, et al. "Role of Design for Disassembly in Educating Consumers for Circular Behavior." Sustainability 15, no. 21 (2023): 15505. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su152115505.
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Promotion of durable materials and products is a common approach to enhance sustainability. However, the effectiveness of such efforts lies on shifts in user behavior and consumption patterns, and these patterns are influenced not only by material aspects but also by social and experiential dimensions. It has been observed that the consumers’ consumption pattern, i.e., post-consumption behavior, is as harmful as production. However, this area remains largely unexplored. The primary purpose of this study is to explore sustainable garment design strategies to enhance emotional durability of garments and reduce pre-consumer and most importantly, the post-consumer waste. For this purpose, 18 garments were produced using ZWPC for pre-consumption waste reduction and DFD for post-consumption waste minimization. Three hypotheses were developed. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through questionnaires and wear trials on the practicality of DFD implementation in garments. The results demonstrated that the combination of these strategies has the potential to curb both pre-consumer and post-consumer waste by designing garments that can enter the biological as well as technical cycle of circular fashion (CF). Furthermore, DFD is a success in increasing the use-life of a garment.
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Aagerup, Ulf. "Accessible luxury fashion brand building via fat discrimination." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal 22, no. 1 (2018): 2–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfmm-12-2016-0116.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate if accessible luxury fashion brands discriminate overweight and obese consumers. Design/methodology/approach The physical sizes of garments are surveyed in-store and compared to the body sizes of the population. A gap analysis is carried out in order to determine whether the supply of clothes match the demand of each market segment. Findings The surveyed accessible luxury garments come in very small sizes compared to the individuals that make up the population. Research limitations/implications The survey is limited to London stores but the garment sizes are compared to the British population. It is therefore possible that the discrepancies between assortments and the population are in part attributable to geographic and demographic factors. The study’s results are, however, so strikingly clear that even if some of the effects were due to extraneous variables, it would be hard to disregard the poor match between overweight and obese women and the clothes offered to them. Practical implications For symbolic/expressive brands that are conspicuously consumed, that narrowly target distinct and homogenous groups of people in industries where elitist practices are acceptable, companies can build brands via customer rejection. Social implications The results highlight ongoing discrimination of overweight and obese fashion consumers. Originality/value The study is the first to provide quantitative evidence for brand building via customer rejection, and it delineates under which conditions this may occur. This extends the theory of typical user imagery.
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Wang, Zhujun, Xuyuan Tao, Xianyi Zeng, Yingmei Xing, Zhenzhen Xu, and Pascal Bruniaux. "A Machine Learning-Enhanced 3D Reverse Design Approach to Personalized Garments in Pursuit of Sustainability." Sustainability 15, no. 7 (2023): 6235. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15076235.
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The fashion industry is facing increasing pressure to move toward sustainable development, especially with concern to cost and environmental sustainability. Innovative digital technologies are regarded as a promising solution for fashion companies to resolve this issue. In this context, this paper put forth a new 3D reverse garment design approach embedded with a garment fit prediction and structure self-adaptive adjustment mechanism, using machine learning (ML) techniques. Initially, the 3D basic garment was drawn directly on the scanned mannequin of a specific consumer. Next, a probabilistic neural network (PNN) was employed to predict the garment’s fit. Afterwards, genetic algorithms (GA) and support vector regression (SVR) were utilized to estimate and control the garment structural parameters following the feedback of fit evaluation and the consumer’s personalized needs. Meanwhile, a comprehensive evaluation was constructed to characterize the quantitative relationships between the consumer profile and the designed garment profile (garment fit and styles). Ultimately, the desired garment which met the consumer’s needs was obtained by performing the routine of “design–fit evaluation–pattern adjustment–comprehensive evaluation”, iteratively. The experimental results show that the proposed approach provides a new solution to develop quality personalized fashion products (garments) more accurately, economically, and in an environmentally friendly way. It is feasible to facilitate the sustainable development of fashion companies by simultaneously reducing costs and negative impacts on the environment.
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ZHANG, JUNJIE, XIANYI ZENG, MIN DONG, WEIBO LI, and HUA YUAN. "Garment knowledge base development based on fuzzy technology for recommendation system." Industria Textila 71, no. 05 (2020): 421–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.35530/it.071.05.1724.
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With the rapid development of garments recommendation systems, more and more garment knowledge base have been widely developed. The research in this paper aims to build a garment knowledge base in order to help general consumers to identify the most relevant products satisfying their specific requirements. We design four experiments for building this knowledge base by 8 pairs of normalized sensory evaluation criteria for describing both consumers’ expectations and product profile. The theory of fuzzy composition technology is applied for setting up garment knowledge base which can be used for consumer-oriented intelligent garment recommendation system. Compared with the other knowledge base, this knowledge base is more robust and more interpretable owing to its capacity of handling vague, imprecise, uncertain, or ambiguous.
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Hamlin, Robert P., and Lisa S. McNeill. "Marketing Tactics for Sustainable Fashion and the Circular Economy: The Impact of Ethical Labels on Fast Fashion Choice." Sustainability 15, no. 13 (2023): 10331. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151310331.
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This study aimed to contribute to the empirical literature on ethical fashion labelling. It investigates if complex, ethical, point-of-sale labels that ‘rate’ products’ ethical status on an ordinal scale influence consumer evaluations of fast-fashion garments (a) in any significant way at all and (b) in a way that is consistent with their reported ethical scores. In an experiment, 400 consumers evaluated a set of four fast-fashion garments with two levels of the Tearfund ordinal ethical label, a generic binary ethical label and garments with no label. Purchase intention was the dependent variable. The presence of a Tearfund label promoted significantly higher fast-fashion garment purchase intention, whatever ethical status the label was indicating. Thus, the rating label did significantly influence fast-fashion garment purchase intention, but not in any useful way. This is a novel and significant finding that indicates that fashion ethical labels are evaluated by using similar subconscious heuristic decision processes to those found in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) markets. Ethical labels that rely on cognitive processing by the consumer may therefore be ineffective, and simpler iconic brand-like label systems that can support subconscious processing may be more useful in a fast-fashion setting.
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Wan, Yan, Ning Ding, and Li Yao. "FA-VTON: A Feature Alignment-Based Model for Virtual Try-On." Applied Sciences 14, no. 12 (2024): 5255. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app14125255.
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The virtual try-on technology based on 2D images aims to seamlessly transfer provided garments onto target person images. Prior methods mainly concentrated on warping garments and generating images, overlooking the influence of feature alignment on the try-on results. In this study, we initially analyze the distortions present by existing methods and elucidate the critical role of feature alignment in the extraction stage. Building on this, we propose a novel feature alignment-based model (FA-VTON). Specifically, FA-VTON aligns the upsampled higher-level features from both person and garment images to acquire precise boundary information, which serves as guidance for subsequent garment warping. Concurrently, the Efficient Channel Attention mechanism (ECA) is introduced to generate the final result in the try-on generation module. This mechanism enables adaptive adjustment of channel feature weights to extract important features and reduce artifact generation. Furthermore, to make the student network focus on salient regions of each channel, we utilize channel-wise distillation (CWD) to minimize the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence between the channel probability maps of the two networks. The experiments show that our model achieves better results in both qualitative and quantitative analyses compared to current methods on the popular virtual try-on datasets.
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Мазур, Т. М. "АНАЛІЗ АЛГОРИТМІВ ПОБУДОВИ НАГРУДНОЇ ВИТОЧКИ В ЖІНОЧОМУ ПЛЕЧОВОМУ ОДЯЗІ". Fashion Industry, № 1 (25 травня 2021): 34–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/2706-5898.2021.1.1.
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Development of algorithms for designing a bust prominence dart in the construction base (СВ) of the top garments through the construction methodologies using the Julivi CAD means. Methodology: usage of the possibilities provided by the CAD program “Design-development of the basic constructions” by Julivi to prepare basic constructions of the women’s top garments through designing of the separate node using the visual programming method following diff erent construction methodologies. Peculiarities of bust prominence dart design for the construction basis in the women’s top garment using the module “Design-development of basic constructions” by CAD Julivi were studied. Algorithms of bust prominence dart design following diff erent design methodologies for CB of the women’s top garment in CAD Julivi program were provided. Sequence of bust prominence dart design (in accordance with two construction methodologies) using the instruments of visual programming is presented in the form of a table and the description of the construction element building procedure recorded by the CAD Julivi was also provided. Parametric reproduction of the panel front was performed to defi ne the construction quality of the separate element in the basic construction and the quality of schematic drawing areas matching for diff erent construction methodologies was illustrated. Algorithms for more reasonable node building using the instruments from the module “Design-development of basic constructions” by CAD Julivi were off ered.Scientifi c novelty: Created algorithm for reasonable execution of the separate construction mode in the women’s top garment using the CAD program instruments. Process sequence of the bust prominence dart design following diff erent methodologies and using software instruments was analyzed. The practical signifi cance: developed methodological provisioning for the usage of the “Design-development of basic constructions” module by CAD Julivi within the design of the construction sequence for the separate elements of the basic constructions of the women’s top garment and off ered algorithm s for bust prominence dart design using CAD without the processes of the further shoulder cut matching.
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Habib, Ahsan, Sharif Ahmed, Mst Tanjima Khatun, and Osman Babaarslan. "Applying Lean Tools to Improve the Sewing Line Efficiency: A Case Study." Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting 23, no. 16 (2023): 157–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/ajeba/2023/v23i161035.
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In a garments manufacturing industry for selling as well as exporting ready-made-garments, quality improvement is a vital task. Industry will not be able to build up a good business relationship with the buyer if they fail to timely dispatch quality samples and finished product to buyers.
 This paper aims to investigate the changes in various aspects such as productivity, efficiency, capacity etc. of a readymade garment industry in Bangladesh by applying the 5’s lean tool. There is an improvement in production, WIP (work in progress) inventory reduction, space utilization, transport by applying the lean tool compared to conventional method. This study is based on both primary and secondary data. Here, quantitative method for data analysis is used. Data are tabled firstly in accordance with traditional operation break down, then according to lean line operational breakdown. Here data for jacket operation are shown. Results are compared with the help of bar charts.
 In this study the production data of Knitted Jacket are taken. The SMV data in two phases are considered, one with the traditional production process and the other one is with the implementation of Lean technique. Beside SMV (Standard Minute Value) data it has been shown productivity, efficiency, capacity etc. By comparing these data, it is assured that it is more preferable to choose Lean techniques to ensure better productivity level. This study is worked with 5’s and the 5’s will help a manufacturing company to increase its improvement and the company will turn into a self-improving company.
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Ren, Song, Mengyao Han, and Jian Fang. "Personal Cooling Garments: A Review." Polymers 14, no. 24 (2022): 5522. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14245522.
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Thermal comfort is of critical importance to people during hot weather or harsh working conditions to reduce heat stress. Therefore, personal cooling garments (PCGs) is a promising technology that provides a sustainable solution to provide direct thermal regulation on the human body, while at the same time, effectively reduces energy consumption on whole-building cooling. This paper summarizes the current status of PCGs, and depending on the requirement of electric power supply, we divide the PCGs into two categories with systematic instruction on the cooling materials, working principles, and state-of-the-art research progress. Additionally, the application fields of different cooling strategies are presented. Current problems hindering the improvement of PCGs, and further development recommendations are highlighted, in the hope of fostering and widening the prospect of PCGs.
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Ahmmad, Tofayel. "Emergence of Export-Oriented Shipbuilding Industry in Bangladesh: Current Position & Future Prospects." Journal of Bangladesh Studies 13, no. 2 (2011): 35–46. https://doi.org/10.1163/27715086-01302005.
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The export basket of Bangladesh is very limited where ready-made garments alone account for nearly 80 percent of its total exports. The extreme dependence of export earnings on the ready-made garments may pose serious threats in the near future. Thus, product diversification is necessary in that case shipbuilding could be a new horizon. The giant ship building nations such as Korea, Japan, China, and Vietnam have been booked with large orders for the next ten years. Some countries have already announced that they will not go for building ships less than 25,000 DWT (Dead Weight Tonnage). This opens up an opportunity for Bangladesh. If Bangladesh could nurture this opportunity with a helping hand from the government, as well as from other quarters, it could be the second largest export earning industry after ready-made garments within less than 10 years. But the shipbuilding industry of Bangladesh currently faces several problems such as high rate of bank guarantee, lack of working capital with low interest rate, lack of availability of land on river banks to build shipyards, etc., which should be solved on a priority basis to get results early from this industry.
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AVADANEI, MANUELA, SABINA OLARU, IRINA IONESCU, et al. "Clothing development process towards a circular model." Industria Textila 72, no. 01 (2021): 89–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.35530/it.072.01.1563b.
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The textile and clothing industry uses many resources. It causes a lot of environmental problems: water pollution, consuming a massive amount of raw materials, energy, chemicals, etc. The garments are produced to be worn and cleaned several times, and their lifespan is considerably reduced. Over 60% of what the consumer buys, becomes unuseful (either the consumer forgot what he/she has, or the product is not fashionable anymore, or it does not fit). It is compulsory and essential to understand the necessity of creating a new balance between the use of resources, the lifespan of the products and consumer behaviour. Closing the loop and building a new understanding of how the textile and clothing industry can exist is the key to the future – to develop and implement the circular business model. This type of business implies some changes in the production flow: the materials are recycled in several rounds, the design process has to take into account several lifecycles of the items (with the same destination or a different one), the products are designed to be re-included in a system where it is possible, and the consumer has to be educated to accept these categories of products. Each stage of the production process has to be sustainable, environmentally friendly and with a low production cost. In terms of a sustainable design process, this paper presents the main stages of the designing process of a garment (leisure sports jacket), with a versatile shape and usage (garment/ backpack). The garment is designed and manufactured to allow and the vice-versa transformation without any technological modifications. By using a creative and feasible design and manufacturing solution, the waste of worn garments will be considerably reduced, and the product lifespan prolonged, as much as it is possible.
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Wang, Bei, Jituo Li, Jiping Zeng, Guang Chen, and Guodong Lu. "Construction of level of details in garment image skeleton." International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology 28, no. 1 (2016): 92–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcst-03-2015-0035.
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Purpose – Skeleton plays an important role in representing the essential feature of garment in image. General skeleton extraction methods often yield many short skeletal branches. Though short branches reflect the geometric details of the garment, they are obstacles in extracting the essential features. The purpose of this paper is to provide an approach to hierarchically remove them to reveal the level of details (LOD) of the skeleton, thus both the essential skeleton and the geometric skeletal branches can be definitely extracted and separated. Design/methodology/approach – First, the initial garment image skeleton is extracted and smoothed. Then, the hierarchically removing mechanism is established on scoring the importance of each skeletal branch by an altered PageRank method and computing the symmetry among skeletal branches. Findings – Experimental examples show that this method can extract and separate garment essential skeleton as well as geometric skeletal branches hierarchically. Garments in same class have a similar essential skeleton with detailed differences, so this approach can be potentially applied in garment recognition and style specification. Originality/value – Traditionally, there is almost no work attempts to build LOD in skeleton of planar shapes. This paper provide an automatic device for building LOD skeleton for garment image. In another word, hierarchic skeletons with details in different prominence level are gradually established. And pairs of symmetric skeletal parts are found by taking advantage of symmetry characteristic of garment. This method is efficient in garment image skeleton extraction.
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Peake, Katrina, and Jeff Kenner. "‘Slaves to Fashion’ in Bangladesh and the EU: Promoting decent work?" European Labour Law Journal 11, no. 2 (2020): 175–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2031952520911064.
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Workers producing garments in developing countries for European brands are often described as ‘slaves to fashion’. They are denied decent work, a core ILO objective and a UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Instead, they are employed in unsafe factories prone to frequent deadly fires or building collapse, subject to anti-union discrimination and violence. The deprivation of their labour rights and poor working conditions might lead to the conclusion that they are in fact ‘modern slaves’, and thus modern slavery is fuelling the garment supply chain which is, in turn, propelled forwards by the fast fashion demands of European consumers. Modern slavery within supply chains can be tackled by brands and retailers, typically those seen as responsible for such abuse and it can be tackled through trade and development policies by actors such as the European Union (EU). In Bangladesh, the EU is the country’s largest trading partner in garments, and it has considerable leverage to improve labour rights, in doing so tackling modern slavery in the supply chain, utilising trade conditionality. The EU has to date lacked a policy focus on tackling modern slavery in its external relations, but with the adoption of the UN SDG 8 which combines elimination of modern slavery with decent work, there is scope for bringing about longstanding change. This paper argues for more normative interconnections between decent work and modern slavery in both national and EU external relations policies.
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Nautiyal, Mitali, Amabel Hunting, Frances Joseph, and Donna Cleveland. "Examining Practices of Apparel Use and End of Life in New Zealand." Sustainability 15, no. 6 (2023): 5141. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15065141.
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Throughout a garment’s life cycle, the use and end-of-life phases are crucial in determining its environmental impact, due to the resources that would be utilised and waste produced during maintenance and disposal. Consumption patterns differ among countries and cultures; however, in New Zealand, there is limited published information to date. To address this gap, an anonymous online poll was conducted examining laundry practices, lifetime wear events and disposal practices for woollen and synthetic-blend knitted jumpers, which are predominantly used as winter clothing in New Zealand. The survey revealed considerable differences in the ways woollen and synthetic garments were worn, maintained and discarded. Over its lifetime, although woollen garments were worn a greater number of times, they were washed less. At the end of life, both types of jumpers showed significant reuse percentages. This information is useful for accurately modelling the inventory needed for assessing the environmental implication of apparel, using the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. By comparing New Zealand’s washing and disposal practises to those of other countries, this study found significant differences, highlighting the need for country-specific data for future LCAs.
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Danjoux, Michèle. "Choreography and sounding wearables." Scene 2, no. 1 (2014): 197–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/scene.2.1-2.197_1.
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This article explores the role of ‘sounding costumes’ and body-worn technologies for choreographic composition, with real-time interactional elements (such as microphones, speakers, sensors) potentially integrated into movement and expressive behaviour. Sounding garments explore the interactions between dancer/performer, the costume and the environment in the generation and manipulation of sonic textures. Briefly discussing historical precedents of integrated composition, the article will mainly refer to sounding prototypes in DAP-Lab’s latest production, For the time being [Victory over the Sun] (2012–2014), for which I designed the wearables, highlighting new methods for building sensual wearable electro-acoustic costumes to create kinaesonic choreographies. The article analyses the multi-perspectival potentials of such conceptual garments/wearable artefacts to play a significant part in the creation process of a performance, focusing on how wearable design can influence and shape movement vocabularies through the impact of its physical material presence on the body, distinctive design aesthetics and sound-generating capabilities. Choreographically, garments and body-worn technologies act as amplifying instruments as well as sculptural constraints or conversely enablers of new movement and ways of sounding/listening that affect different kinetic and acoustic awareness (both in the performers and in the audience).
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Zhao, Mengmeng, Chuansi Gao, and Min Wang. "Development of Air Ventilation Garments with Small Fan Panels to Improve Thermal Comfort." Sustainability 15, no. 11 (2023): 8452. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15118452.
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Air ventilation garments (AVGs) are reported to be effective in improving thermal comfort in hot environments in previous research. The purpose of this study was to develop AVGs with small fan panels and examine their cooling performance. Three AVGs equipped with more, much smaller sized ventilation fans were developed, including FFV (ten small fans all located on the front body), BBV (ten small fans all located on the back body), and FBV (six small fans located on the front body and four small fans located on the back body). Another garment, without ventilation fans but with the same structure and textile material, was made as a reference garment (CON). The cooling performance of the four garments was examined through subject trials in a moderately hot environment of 32 °C and 60% relative humidity. Simulated office work with 70 min of sedentary activity was performed. The results showed that the physiological indexes of the mean body skin temperature, the mean torso skin temperature, and the heart rate in the three AVG scenarios were significantly lower than those in the CON condition (p < 0.05). Thermal sensation, thermal comfort, and wetness sensation were also improved when wearing the three AVGs (p < 0.05). No significant difference was displayed among the three AVGs on the whole body and the whole torso (p > 0.05) due to the similarity of the air velocity created by the fan panels. A significant difference was found on the local torso skin, with FFV significantly reducing the chest and the belly skin temperature, and BBV significantly reducing the scapula and the lower back skin temperature (p < 0.05). This study indicates that the AVGs with the small fan panels were effective in reducing heat strain and improving thermal comfort, and thus are recommended for use in hot environments.
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Huang, Zhen Zhen, and Xiao Yun Wang. "Research on Silk Apparel Retail Marketing Development Strategy." Advanced Materials Research 175-176 (January 2011): 900–905. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.175-176.900.
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As large marketing research data shown, silk clothing marketing share of china has been small. So far, there is still lack of a high-profile silk clothing brand in our country, which has great potential for developing. In this paper, silk apparel retail marketing development strategy were profoundly analyzed and studied. Firstly, silk garments’ marketing research data was analyzed. In order to expand silk clothing marketing comprehensively in the perspective of marketing channels and brand-building, the retail marketing strategy and mathematical statistics methods were used. At last it simulated the retail marketing development strategy in a small silk garments marketing sample in order to have a more intuitive view for the implementation of the strategy. Thereby, it can contribute to grasp silk apparel marketing, make full use of china’s rich silk resources and create silk brand power to make china silk flare brilliant in the world.
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M.K, Vasanthi. "The Occupational Principles of the People of the Sangam Age." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-13 (2022): 297–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s1344.
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Tamil is a language with an ancient literary tradition. Literature is a time mirror that captures the lives of people. In this way, the people who lived during the Sangam period took up various occupations to improve their standard of living. Food and water are essential to human life. Agriculture is the basis of food. The agriculture industry and the equipment (implements) related to it are explained. Clothing is essential for men. The textile industry, which produces garments, is explained. It is also explained by the carpentry industry, which produces the materials necessary for human life. Ornaments are used by man to beautify himself. This article examines the gold industry, the building industry, and the fishing industry through the Sangam literature. The significance of the weaving industry, the techniques used in weaving garments, and the barter system are examined and explained through the Sangam literature. The specialties of carpentry, iron, gold, and building industries and the methods of production of goods have been examined. It is established in the Sangam literary evidence that the people of the Sangam age developed their occupations in the best possible way by doing various occupations such as fishing, salt cultivation, etc., for their needs, for economic development, and for the betterment of life.
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Rodrigs, Marcus Craig. "Use of the Internet for investor relations by public listed companies." Corporate Ownership and Control 13, no. 4 (2016): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv13i4p8.
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With the increasing emphasis on developing economies and the use of the internet for corporate relationship building, this study aims to investigate the usage of internet by listed companies in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. The study will also include comparison of the contents of investor relationships with empirical evidence from around the world. The sample size contains 105 firms listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange. Employing statistical analysis for measuring investor relations based on available contents disclosed in firms’ website for investor information, this study found that the 105 firms disclose contents related to investors on their websites but fall short of the standard of other countries with only the company profile as the most prominent disclosure. Study result reports that companies in Bangladesh are still behind compared to developed economies in terms of using internet for investor relations. The study also recommends the Dhaka Stock Exchange, Bangladesh Garments Manufacturing and Export Association (BGMEA) and other indigenous regulatory bodies encourage firms to disclose more investor related information
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Xu, Huiya, and Ha-young Song. "Key Factors Influencing Chinese Consumers’ Demand for Naturally Dyed Garments: Data Analysis through KJ Method and KANO Model." Sustainability 16, no. 3 (2024): 1189. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16031189.
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The growing global emphasis on environmental issues has driven companies to exert greater efforts on making their products more sustainable. Natural dyeing, an eco-friendly dyeing method used in the textile and apparel industry, is safer for both the environment and human health, aligning with the needs of sustainable design development. This paper examines the key factors affecting Chinese consumers’ satisfaction with naturally dyed garments, aiming to provide research-based strategies for the design and development of such garments. In this study, we utilized the KJ method for the detailed categorization of the functionalities of naturally dyed garments, establishing five dimensions and thirty demand indicators. Based on this, the KANO model, coupled with the Better–Worse coefficient and the quadrant analysis method, was used to classify different demand items, ranking their satisfaction and importance. The results indicate that the wearing experience and environmental characteristics of products are key determinants influencing Chinese consumers’ demand for naturally dyed clothing. The top five factors significantly impacting product satisfaction, in descending order of importance, are comfort, environmentally friendly dyeing techniques, safety, degradability, and durability. Therefore, to ensure consumer satisfaction with naturally dyed clothing, these factors should be prioritized when establishing a support system that caters to consumer needs. Our findings can help companies to better understand consumers’ actual need for naturally dyed garments, enabling the more targeted development and optimization of such garments, enhancing product competitiveness, and promoting the green transformation and sustainable development of enterprises. Simultaneously, this study also contributes novel theoretical approaches and ideas for future research on consumer demand.
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Ghaasyiyah, Khansa Nur, Dedes Nur Gandarum, and Rita Walaretina. "IMPLEMENTATION OF NET-ZERO ENERGY BUILDING CONCEPT IN THE DESIGN FACADE ARCHITECTURE BUILDINGS IN CENTRAL JAVA." Jurnal Arsitektur ARCADE 5, no. 1 (2021): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31848/arcade.v5i1.679.
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Abstract: Issues relating to conventional energy and environmental sustainability is a hot topic that has been often discussed in today's developing world. Researchers have predicted that in the coming years, numerous non-renewable resources would be scarcer and harder to get access to. This phenomenon would cause a detrimental influence on energy use in the future, resulting in the need for the development of alternative energy resources and implementation of energy conservation energy efficiency policies in every construction design. One of the most essential elements in constructions that have great influence in resolving this problem is the construction facades. Therefore, this research will focus on types of construction facade designs using the NZEB concept approach. The methodology used in this research is analytical descriptive by using case studies that relate to the construction of Net-Zero Energy Building, namely: BCA Academy, ENERPOS, PT. Ungaran Sari Garments, NUS School of Design & Environment 4, dan CIC Zero Carbon Park. The purpose of this research is to identify various types of innovation façade designs of NZEB technologies that could be applied in construction that resides in Central Java considering the area has a tropical climate. This research also proves that construction that resides in warm climates prefers to use technologies that could prevent and reduce the fallout of sun radiation towards its buildings without sacrificing any natural light and takes advantage of the wind to minimalize the usage of frosting energy in buildings.Abstrak Isu mengenai krisis energi konvensional dan kelestarian lingkungan menjadi perhatian khusus yang marak diperbincangkan dalam perkembangan dunia saat ini. Telah diprediksi oleh sejumlah ilmuan bahwa dalam beberapa tahun kedepan, sumber-sumber alam tak terbarukan akan sulit dan langka untuk dikonsumsi. Masalah ini akan menimbulkan dampak yang sangat besar terhadap penggunaan energi di masa depan, sehingga diperlukannya pengembangan teknologi yang dapat menghasilkan sumber-sumber energi alternatif terbarukan dan implementasi kebijakan efisiensi energi di setiap rancangan bangunan. Elemen penting pada bangunan yang memiliki pengaruh besar dalam mengatasi permasalahan tersebut adalah fasad bangunan. Maka penelitian ini difokuskan pada macam-macam desain fasad bangunan dengan Konsep NZEB. Metodologi yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah metode deskriptif analitis dengan menggunakan studi kasus bangunan Net-Zero Energy Building, yaitu gedung BCA Academy, ENERPOS, PT. Ungaran Sari Garments, NUS School of Design & Environment 4, dan CIC Zero Carbon Park. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasikan berbagai macam inovasi desain fasad teknologi NZEB yang dapat diterapkan pada bangunan di Jawa Tengah yang iklim tropis basah. Penelitian ini juga menunjukkan bahwa bangunan di daerah beriklim panas lebih menggunakan teknologi yang dapat mencegah atau mengurangi jatuhnya radiasi matahari pada bangunan tanpa mengorbankan pencahayaan alami dan memanfaatkan angin untuk meminimalisir penggunaan energi pendingin pada bangunan.
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Tang, Honglei, Zeeshan Rasool, Mohsin Ali Khan, et al. "Factors Affecting E-Shopping Behaviour: Application of Theory of Planned Behaviour." Behavioural Neurology 2021 (November 23, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/1664377.
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E-shopping is a rapidly growing phenomenon among different individuals who intend to shop online. However, a trust deficit in the E-shopping environment has always been a critical issue in the brick-and-click mode of shopping, being one of the main reasons for E-cart abandonment in E-commerce. This empirical study is aimed at investigating the perceived effect of website trust on E-shopping intentions and behaviour, drawing upon the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires from working adults who shop for garments online. Structural equation modelling was used to evaluate the model fit and assumptions. Our findings suggest that website trust and E-shopping attitude play substantial roles in building E-shopping intentions and actual behaviours. Both are the significant predictors of the behaviour mediated by E-shopping intentions. However, E-shopping intentions did not mediate between subjective norms and E-shopping behaviour, when working adults decide to purchase garments online.
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Vanacker, Hester, Andrée-Anne Lemieux, Sophie Bonnier, Margaux Yost, and Shanon Poupard. "Circularity, Garment Durability, and Just Transition: Understanding the Trinary Interrelationship through an Integrative Literature Review." Sustainability 15, no. 15 (2023): 11993. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151511993.
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Large quantities of second-hand clothing have been exported from the Global North to the Global South in recent decades, placing a heavy social and environmental burden on local communities. Consequently, countries in the Global South are leveraging indigenous craftsmanship through various practices, such as care, repair, and upcycling, to enable durability and extend product life, saving millions of garments from landfills. However, this knowledge is not included in global narratives on durability and the circular economy. Moreover, the Global North dominates the conversation, often leaving out the social dimension and risking a circular transition from achieving important goals such as decent jobs to reducing the unequal distribution of negative environmental and social impacts. This study examines the trinary interrelationship between circularity, garment durability, and just transition through an integrative literature review. The review revealed several key findings. Firstly, the authors posit that garment durability is an ongoing interaction between the garment and its changing environment(s) and user(s), enabling it to move through different life cycles via the practices of care, mending, and repair. Secondly, all three concepts must place people at the heart of the fashion industry to ensure a just and circular transition.
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Chowdhury, Sajal, Khandaker Shabbir Ahmed, and Yasuhiro Hamada. "Thermal performance of building envelope of ready-made garments (RMG) factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh." Energy and Buildings 107 (November 2015): 144–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.08.014.
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Jain, Sweta, and Jacob Joseph Kalapurackal. "A Systematic Review of Green Apparel Manufacturing." Environmental Research, Engineering and Management 79, no. 4 (2023): 124–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.erem.79.4.34368.
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The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of the literature on green manufacturing practices in the apparel industry to map green practices across various apparel manufacturing departments. The review includes academic journal articles that were retrieved between March 2013 and March 2023 from several different databases. As part of a comprehensive literature assessment, content analysis was applied to 138 publications that were published in peer-reviewed journals over ten years. Green practices in garment manufacturing process are covered, including product design, raw material procurement, fabric spreading, cutting, sewing and assembly, washing, printing and embroidery, finishing, and packing. The review of eco-friendly production practices at each phase of the production process shows the variety and complexity of green practices in apparel production companies. However, there is a lack of research on the conditions of developing countries, where the majority of apparel production takes place, as well as on the methods used in the manufacture of garments. The study is distinct in that it focuses solely on the garment manufacturing industry, and will not include textiles because the production processes for textiles and clothing are fundamentally different. This study assists managers in building a company’s sustainability competency by outlining best practices at various phases of production. It also provides scholars with a uniform representation of environmentally sustainable practices to spur additional scholarly investigation.
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Imran, Bin Hussain*. "STUDY OF AIR FLOW AND TEMPERATURE ON OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH: A STUDY ON DELMAS APPARELS (PVT.) LTD." Global Journal of Engineering Science and Research Management 5, no. 9 (2018): 68–82. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1435383.
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The ready-made garments (RMG) sector has a superior prospect than any other sectors in Bangladesh in terms of employment and foreign currency earnings thereby reduce poverty and making a major role to the national economy. More than 81% of Bangladesh’s export earnings come from the readymade garment industry. However, working condition of workers is not pleasant. Moreover, workers suffer various kinds of diseases due to lack of ventilation and unhealthy thermal condition. Workers are more productive in a positive environment. The research analyzed the problem/issue of ventilation and thermal aspects that effects on health. The study will also explore the relationship among and thermal aspects and existing thermal condition. Geographically, this study focuses on the Chittagong, and can be considered as a contribution to understanding ventilation issue of RMG buildings in Bangladesh. However, the findings may be relevant for other cities as well. A range of distinctive questionnaires survey and related environmental data will be collected from garments, workers, from Delmas Apparels (PVT) ltd located at CEPZ, Chittagong, Bangladesh. The study was summarized on the basis of the information provided by the respondents and environmental data using both qualitative and quantitative tools. With quantitative data, the current version of data analysis program, absolute Figures, graphs, charts, maps, diagrams, tables, percentage and statistical tools such as Pearson R Test, Simple linear regression and Multiple regression is applied whereas qualitative will be made use of description, analysis of description and feedback from interview and personal observation. By studying such impact of ventilation and thermal Environment with regard to occupational safety and health, coherent actions and means of mitigation may be recognized. Such steps can be categorized for improving working atmosphere and health condition. RMG Entrepreneurs, Architects, Engineers, and RMG staffs may be tempted to take these factors into consideration while making or working in such typologies of buildings. On the other hand, Policy makers can take decision cited in this study into consideration while making related regulatory policies and framework.
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Ræbild, Ulla. "Sustainable collection practices and life cycle strategies: A fashion design perspective." Artifact 7, no. 1-2 (2020): 14.1–14.19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/art_00014_1.
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The fashion collection is a primary format in fashion design. Nevertheless, literature on the phenomenon is limited. In the transition towards new sustainable ways of designing and producing fashion garments, it is important to understand (1) how designers can promote change through their core collection design practice, and (2) how collection practices manifest within life cycle strategies for design. The study is constructed as a qualitative comparative analysis of interview data from three designers in a company context. The data is analysed in two modes: first through a framework for sustainable collection practices and second through a life cycle strategy framework. The study contributes with insights on how designers work with sustainability strategies in their collection building design practice and the key role that both material choices and design for garment longevity play in driving the strategies. Furthermore, it shows that the represented approaches to sustainability: circular system, slow fashion and fibre sourcing, reside within technical life cycle strategies with slowing and closing circular loops objectives, and that strategies solely in biological life cycles appear nonexistent. The study is small scale, and insights are therefore indicative.
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Shi, Hengliang, Xiaolei Bai, and Jianhui Duan. "3D fabric dynamic simulation based on Mapreduce." International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology 27, no. 6 (2015): 793–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcst-02-2014-0023.
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Purpose – In cloth animation field, the collision detection of fabric under external force is very complex, and difficult to satisfy the needs of reality feeling and real time. The purpose of this paper is to improve reality feeling and real-time requirement. Design/methodology/approach – This paper puts forward a mass-spring model with building bounding-box in the center of particle, and designs the collision detection algorithm based on Mapreduce. At the same time, a method is proposed to detect collision based on geometric unit. Findings – The method can quickly detect the intersection of particle and triangle, and then deal with collision response according to the physical characteristics of fabric. Experiment shows that the algorithm improves real-time and authenticity. Research limitations/implications – Experiments show that 3D fabric simulation can be more efficiency through parallel calculation model − Mapreduce. Practical implications – This method can improve the reality feeling, and reduce calculation quantity. Social implications – This collision-detection can be used into more fields such as 3D games, aero simulation training and garments automation. Originality/value – This model and method have originality, and can be used to 3D animation, digital entertainment, and garment industry.
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Baytar, Fatma, Telin Chung, and Eonyou Shin. "Evaluating garments in augmented reality when shopping online." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal 24, no. 4 (2020): 667–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfmm-05-2018-0077.
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PurposeAugmented Reality (AR) integrates computer-generated images to a physical environment in real-time. Online apparel shopping presents some product-related risks, as consumers can neither physically see and touch the products nor try them on. The present study examined whether AR conveys reliable apparel product information in terms of fit, size, and product performance; and how AR affects attitudes toward apparel and purchase intentions when shopping online.Design/methodology/approachThis research was designed as a within-subject quasi-experimental study using repeated measures in two conditions: virtual try-on using the AR technology vs. physical try-on. A scenario was developed to help participants imagine themselves shopping online for a specific dress.FindingsResults indicated that size and color of dresses were conveyed accurately when utilizing AR as compared to physical try-on. Visual attributes such as style, garment details, and coordination with other items were found to be satisfactorily predicted when AR was employed. Overall, attitudes towards both AR and real dress, and purchase intentions were favorable. Participants with higher telepresence levels were found to have more positive attitudes towards the dress and greater purchase intentions when using AR as compared to the participants with low telepresence levels.Research limitations/implicationsOur findings implied that AR can provide enough information especially for garment sizes and visual characteristics when making purchase decisions. AR technology can be instrumental in introducing a certain style, building positive attitudes towards products, and driving sales, when the consumers perceive a certain level of “being there”. This study was limited to female students in North America. Also, because a single stimulus was used, the results cannot be generalized to other stimuli.Originality/valueOur study findings showed that participants were able to select the right garment size by using AR. The average ratings for visual characteristics such as style and detail were above the neutral level when using AR; indicating that participants can understand visual attributes in AR when shopping online. Moreover, in the AR condition participants with higher telepresence levels had higher attitudes towards the garment and purchase intentions as compared to the participants with low telepresence. AR can be instrumental for online apparel shopping. Retailers need to understand the potentials of these technologies and work with technology developers to enhance consumers' experiences.
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Maalouf, Miguel Malek, Peter Hasle, Jan Vang, and Abu Hamja. "Complementarities between Operations and Occupational Health and Safety in Garments." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (2021): 4313. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084313.
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There is an ongoing debate in the extant literature regarding whether the relationship between occupational health and safety (OHS) and operational practices is contradictory or complementary. However, previous research has focused on companies situated in developed and highly industrialized countries. We contribute to the debate by investigating the relationship between OHS and operational practices in 50 selected garment factories in the context of a developing country (Bangladesh). We investigated OHS and operational practices in a developing country because the institutional context and the industrial tradition are different from those in developed countries, and these factors are very likely to influence how companies invest in enhancing work conditions and improving operational practices. Indeed, the main contribution of this study is that, in contrast to findings from developed countries, our results indicate that both the maturity levels of OHS and operational practices and the complementarity between them depended on plant size. In particular, large plants had higher levels of maturity and were more likely to perform well in both OHS and operational practices than small and medium plants. Based on these findings, we emphasize that, to enhance work conditions and remain competitive, small and medium companies must embrace multi-stakeholder initiatives involving international buyers, local government, and international labor. Organizations can contribute to building the capabilities of suppliers and balance the pressure of cost reduction with investment in OHS improvement.
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Moon, Sadia Jahan, and Md Abdul Momen Miah. "Empowerment of resource poor women through income generation activities (IGAs): a case of slum area in Dhaka city corporation of Bangladesh." Research in Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries 4, no. 1 (2017): 14–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/ralf.v4i1.32401.
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The main purpose of the study was to determine the level of empowerment of women working at garments industry in Bangladesh. The factors influencing the achievement of empowerment of women were also analyzed. A total of 50 women serving in garment industry at Pallabi Thana in Dhaka were selected randomly from a total of 240 women. Data were collected by using structured questionnaire during January to February 2016. All the women opined for having moderate to higher level of empowerment in terms of freedom of mobility and participation in household decision making process. Even none of the women fell in low empowerment category. Before involved in IGAs it was difficult for them to go out even in relatives house and were not consulted in making household decisions. After getting job, they contributed approximately 40 to 58 percent of their income to meet family expenses. The age, level of education, family income and job experience were related to their empowerment. The women identified that social superstition, existing value system are still hinder empowerment. The adult education programme and awareness building campaign by the development agencies could mitigate the existing limitations of empowerment of women.Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.4(1): 14-20, April 2017
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Tan, Zhengtang, Shuang Lin, and Zebin Wang. "Cluster Size Intelligence Prediction System for Young Women’s Clothing Using 3D Body Scan Data." Mathematics 12, no. 3 (2024): 497. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math12030497.
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This study adopts a data-driven methodology to address the challenge of garment fitting for individuals with diverse body shapes. Focusing on young Chinese women aged 18–25 from Central China, we utilized the German VITUS SMART LC3 3D body scanning technology to measure 62 body parts pertinent to fashion design on a sample of 220 individuals. We then employed a hybrid approach, integrating the circumference difference classification method with the characteristic value classification method, and applied the K-means clustering algorithm to categorize these individuals into four distinct body shape groups based on cluster center analysis. Building upon these findings, we formulated specific linear regression models for key body parts associated with each body shape category. This led to the development of an intelligent software capable of automatically calculating the dimensions of 28 body parts and accurately determining the body shape type for young Central Chinese women. Our research underscores the significant role of intelligent predictive systems in the realm of fashion design, particularly within a data-driven framework. The system we have developed offers precise body measurements and classification outcomes, empowering businesses to create garments that more accurately conform to the wearer’s body, thus enhancing both the fit and aesthetic value of the clothing.
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Seijas, Elena Miramontes. "A textile workshop to approach Classical civilisation." Journal of Classics Teaching 22, no. 43 (2021): 55–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2058631021000088.
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Every day teachers try to improve their students’ awareness of how life was in Classical times. We talk about mythology, politics, the building of cities and many other aspects that made the ancient world, but what do we actually know and teach about clothing in ancient times? Our society seems to pay a lot of attention to the physical aspect of the ancient world. We know that clothing and adornment are important ways in which people were defined as a part of a social group, yet our students seem to believe that our ancestors just had a poor selection of national garments to make their identity clear.
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Al-Rawi, Ahmed. "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s standardized media and jihadist nation-state building efforts." Communication and the Public 4, no. 3 (2019): 224–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057047319853323.
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In its efforts to establish order and legitimacy among the people it once controlled, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria followed standardized and systematic nation-state building policies. The terrorist group attempted to establish an imagined jihadist nation-state with the assistance of standardized media productions and practices. These media productions that are examined in this article reflect Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s unified vision of the ultra-conservative society that it once intended to form in its different territories. I argue here that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria used standardized media productions to promote strict sharia laws including emphasis on men and women’s garments, distrust in secular rule, and calls for jihad in the different cities that it controlled. For Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, media is jihad and journalists are Mujahideen whose main purpose is to mobilize the masses and assist in creating a jihadist nation-state.
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Lee, Suyeon, and Hee Jung Ha. "A Study on Current State in Stitches and Seams Usage for Building Smart Sewing Systems: Focused on Sewing Specification of Cut and Sewn Knit." Family and Environment Research 58, no. 3 (2020): 357–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.6115/fer.2020.026.
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This study suggests the use of standardized sewing terms for the construction of smart sewing systems. This study analyzed the use of stitches (ISO 4915) and seams (ISO 4916) for cut and sewn knit garment which are the basic elements of sewing on an ISO basis. The results of the analysis of sewing specifications of cut and sewn knit garments are as follows. First, the use of stitches and seams were analyzed. As a result, both stitches and seams were used as non-standard terms. Second, among 3,263 stitches, ISO 4915 No. 406 followed by 401, 504, 605 were the most frequently used; however, ISO 4915 No. 514 was anticipated the most because the ISO 4915 No. 514 used for joining was not recorded in the sewing specification. Finally, the use of stitch for each seam was analyzed. The most common stitch used for ISO 4916 No. 6.02.07 was ISO 4915 No. 406. In addition, when it was sewing ISO 4916 No. 4.04.01, ISO 4915 No. 504 was used in step 1, and ISO 4915 No. 406, 602, and 605 were used in step 2. It is important to use the international standard sewing terms for the production site based on the results. In addition, the construction of smart sewing systems and the work of international standardization through industryuniversity cooperation are important for securing global competitiveness. Therefore, the use of international standard terminology and practical training should be conducted with a focus on stitching and seams with high frequency of use.
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BROUDY, HARRY S. "The Role of the Foundational Studies In The. Preparation of Elementary Teachers." Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative 2, no. 1 (2018): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.55016/ojs/jet.v2i1.43509.
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I shall begin the discussion of the role of the foundational studies in the preparation of elementary teachers by registering some dissatisfaction with the terms "foundation" and "foundational." A brave band of professors at Columbia Teachers College deserve our gratitude for the idea of foundational studies, but not for the term. Inevitably the word makes one think of the building trades, or those great philanthropic geese that lay the golden eggs for educational reform, or the art of corsetry. All these connotations have their roots in the notion of a beginning. The foundation of the edifice is the first layer of the building, and when one founds an establishment he institutes or originates it; presumably an establishment is called a foundation when its goal is to assist in the founding of other enterprises. As for the foundation garments worn by women, they too are supposed to be the first layer of clothing, as well as the means of establishing a basic contour for the figure's subsequent adornment.
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Wu, P. C., Greg Jones, Chrisy Shelle, and Bert Woelfli. "Novel Microporous Films and Their Composites." Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics 2, no. 1 (2007): 155892500700200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155892500700200105.
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Cost-effective microporous films and composites can be made by using polyolefinic material and inorganic fillers. These microporous films and their composites can be designed and manufactured at high speed using commercial equipment for disposable hygiene articles, protective health care garments, building construction and many other industrial applications where air and moisture breathability is needed. The theory, formulations and methods of making these cost-effective polyolefinic-calcium carbonate compositions are discussed. Special engineering fibers and their fabrics can be combined with these novel microporous films to achieve a variety of properties for practical applications. However, one should keep intellectual property considerations in mind when contemplating the manufacture of microporous film products, their companies and their applications.
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Apriliyanthi, Sri Rahma, Tomonori Sakoi, Akhlish Diinal Aziiz, et al. "Perceived thermal acceptability and behavioural adjustment for Indonesian workers." E3S Web of Conferences 396 (2023): 01049. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202339601049.
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Behavioural adaptation is a fundamental factor in thermal comfort. Clothing insulation, opening windows, and integrating cooling systems within buildings are key to ensuring thermal comfort while conserving energy. This study collected behavioural adaptation data from 3000 Indonesian adults who regularly worked indoors. The results indicate that the thermal acceptability is in a similar range for all groups separated by residence space type despite the dominant thermal conditioning measure in each group is different. Based on ISO 9920, the typical clothing ensembles were determined for each group, and their clo-values were estimated. Office workers tended to wear more garments than factory workers, while at home, people wear light clothes. Therefore, the estimated clo-value in home are much lower compare to the workplaces clo-value. Clo-value in the workplaces with AC tends to show a higher value compared to naturally ventilated building. Clo-value for female is also higher than male. In general, AC usage in the office was higher than in factories and homes. Females tends to use more AC than Males. These differences reflect variety of socioeconomic and cultural aspects in public and private in Indonesia.
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Binte Rab, Naharin, and Rehnuma Hoque. "Is ‘Greening’ the Key to Sustain in Global Market for Bangladeshi Readymade Garments Industry?" International Journal of Business and Management 12, no. 3 (2017): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v12n3p135.
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RMG (Readymade Garments) industry is life-blood for the economy of Bangladesh since she contributes around 82% in the export revenue and 14% in GDP. In the backdrop of ‘Savar Building Collapse’ in 2013, the second most horrifying industrial disaster of all time, the country image of Bangladesh has suffered. As a consequence of which GSP facility was withdrawn. The industry now faces a new set of challenges to sustain in the global market. Vietnam exceeded Bangladesh in apparel export to US, just last year in 2015. Another threat has been developed when Vietnam signed TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) in February, 2016 which would leverage Vietnamese export to US market. There is pressure from US to make RMG in Bangladesh safe and sustainable. Safety pushes the cost equation up but lack of which pulls the image of the country down. Bangladesh RMG enjoys the greatest cost advantage of all the nations due to the lowest wage paid to the workers. With a standing of $25 billion export revenue in RMG, now Bangladesh projects to reach $50 billion in 2021. This paper would look critically into the role of greening in sustainability of the industry, in particular, reaching the 2021 target. The authors would approach critical analysis through exploratory study of academic literature and newspapers.
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Cao, Huantian, Kelly Cobb, Michelle Yatvitskiy, Megan Wolfe, and Hongqing Shen. "Textile and Product Development from End-of-Use Cotton Apparel: A Study to Reclaim Value from Waste." Sustainability 14, no. 14 (2022): 8553. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14148553.
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The textile and apparel production and consumption generate a huge amount of solid textile waste. Mechanical recycling is one main method to recycle cotton waste; however, shredding in mechanical recycling shortens fiber length and reduces fiber quality. As a result, the application of mechanically recycled textiles may be limited. This research investigated mechanical methods to recycle post-consumer cotton textile waste and designed and developed second-life products. This study applied research through design methodology and documented step-by-step textile and product development practices to communicate the results. Using the textiles from deconstructed end-of-use garments with a high cotton content (80% or higher), combined with other materials, the researchers developed yarns, and nonwoven, woven, quilted, tufted fabrics. The researchers tested textile properties such as “yarn” tensile strength and elongation, fabric thickness, thermal resistance, air permeability, and stiffness. Using fabrics developed from end-of-use cotton waste, the researchers designed and developed high-value products such as bags, decorative textile, a hat, cell phone and glasses cases, and garments to contribute to the sustainability and circularity of cotton.
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Papalas, Marylaura. "Fashion in interwar France: The urban vision of Elsa Schiaparelli." French Cultural Studies 28, no. 2 (2017): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155817693512.
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Elsa Schiaparelli’s avant-garde designs and her collaborative efforts with surrealist artists are the subject of most analyses of her work, which focus on themes of glamour, gender and the construction of a modern feminine beauty. Yet a number of lesser-known creations from the 1920s and 1930s, equally experimental in nature, reveal other progressive themes in the Italian-born designer’s oeuvre. References to the city in a number of her pieces, for example, provide a commentary on the important relationship between fashion, women and their urban environments. This article examines designs like the skyscraper silhouette, plastic accessories and new synthetic fabrics, echoing contemporary building materials, alongside the changing landscape of interwar Paris. Comparing the imagined city suggested in Schiaparelli’s sartorial creations with the real metropolis where these garments were worn, this study reveals fashion’s potential to express women’s desires for an improved urban reality.
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Green, Denise Nicole, and Kelly L. Reddy-Best. "Curatorial reflections in North American university fashion collections: Challenging the canon." Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 13, no. 1 (2022): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/csfb_00035_2.
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Once-embodied garments take on new life through curation, where they have the potential to reveal histories, pose questions, inspire creativity, and challenge oppressive systems by bringing attention to inequalities and injustices through the lens of fashion. While the garment does this work materially, it is the curator and their team who conceptualize an exhibition, conduct in-depth research, design the display and author interpretive text, all of which empowers artefacts to convey a narrative. However, the very ‘elevation’ of fashion within major museums has been tethered to an ideological fabrication of fashion as a Euromodern phenomenon, which has created, produced, performed and sensationalized an exclusionary narrative of fashion history. At the same time, this narrative is being challenged through curation, especially in smaller institutions like community archives, tribal museums and university fashion collections. The contributors to this Special Issue reflect on the latter within the context of the United States. They write about the challenges of producing curated displays while offering insights into, and evidence of, the possibilities that curatorial practice offers institutions of higher education and the communities they serve. University collections in the United States create a space of learning that offers possibility for rethinking, reimagining and critiquing fashion. Education is the premise of the university collection and therefore world-building becomes possible through curation. While the university fashion collection is not without colonial baggage, corporate and industry connections, ideological interests and neo-liberal pressures, it is ideally a space premised on scholarly pursuit. This Special Issue grapples with the complexities of curating fashion in North American universities, and the potential of this work to agitate, challenge and resist dominant narratives.
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Pramanik, Md Azizur Rahman, Muhammad Rabiul Hossain, and Md Abul Kalam Azad. "Management of mass casualty in Rana Plaza tragedy, the worst industrial disaster in Bangladesh." Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh 9, no. 2 (2015): 10–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jafmc.v9i2.21819.
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Introduction: On April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza, an 8 storied building accommodating 5 garment factories, a bank, a number of commercial shops and offices collapsed at Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, while more than 4 thousand people were working inside. A massive rescue operation was carried out in following 21 days by the Government of Bangladesh involving all of her associated organs with a key role played by the Armed Forces. A total of 2438 injured victims were rescued between 24 Apr 2013 and 10 May 2013 including a female garment worker who was rescued after 17 days of the building collapse. The death toll finally reached to 1132 including 2 rescue workers. This unprecedented disaster was mitigated by extraordinary responses from almost all the organs of government and also from non-government bodies. All available medical resources were utilized for immediate, short term and long term management of the injured victims. Objective: This study is aimed to find out the pattern of injuries in the victims of this catastrophe and also the management of mass casualty in Rana Plaza tragedy which occurred due to the multistoried commercial building collapse. Methods: This observational study was conducted on pre-hospital, in-hospital and post-hospital management of the victims of the disaster. Each of the injured individuals was tracked for a period of more than 3 months. Data were collected from interviews, observation and by studying the records of field medical units, secondary and tertiary hospitals and rehabilitation centres. Results: This was the deadliest garments factory accident in the history causing 1132 deaths and 2438 injured cases. The rescue operation was carried out upto 14 May 2013. Removal of the whole collapsed building rubbles took 21 days and 1127 dead bodies had been recovered. Two rescuers died during rescue operation. Out of 2438 casualties 407 were brought to SMH Savar, 28 victims of serious injury were evacuated to CMH Dhaka where only one patient died. One thousand and seven hundred casualties were taken to Enam Medical College and Hospital, Savar and 105 patients were taken to National Institute of Traumatology and Rehabilitation (NITOR). Two hundred and twenty six patients received management in the other private clinics. Out of 2438 patients, 951 received prolonged hospital treatment of which blunt trauma was found in 225(23.66%) cases, soft tissue injuries in 149(15.67%) cases, fractures in 137(14.41%) cases, crush syndrome in 46(4.84%), head injuries in 40(4.20%), limb loss in 33(3.47%) and other non lethal injuries were observed in 321(33.75) cases. Three patients expired during treatment due to complications like acute renal failure, ARDS and complication of head injury. Up to 26 Jul 2013, 36 cases were found disabled to sequelae of head injury, spinal injury, fracture of long bones of limbs and injury of peripheral nerves. Among the patients of mass casualty commonest complication or presentation was acute stress reaction in 44.92 percent of patients. Conclusion: Management of mass casualty in this building collapse provides us with a valuable experience which may be utilized in dealing with similar disasters that might take place in any densely populated city in an earthquake prone country like Bangladesh. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jafmc.v9i2.21819 Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.9(2) 2013
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Moon, Jannatul Mawa, T.N. Sonia Azad, Rajib Adhikari, and G.M. Faysal. "From Compliance to Excellence: Transforming Social Responsibility in Bangladesh's RMG Sector." Journal of Natural Science and Textile Techonology (JNSTT) 2, no. 1 (2023): 83–89. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8312649.
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The Ready-made Garments (RMG) industry in Bangladesh, which plays a crucial role in the country's economy, has experienced substantial expansion since its establishment in the late 1970s. Nevertheless, the expansion has been accompanied by difficulties in the implementation of social compliance management practices, which involve several aspects such as labor rights, safety measures, environmental considerations, and regulatory enforcement. This study examines the progression of Bangladesh's RMG sector from compliance to achieving a high standard of social responsibility. In recent times, Bangladesh has developed as a prominent global exporter of garments, securing its position as the second-largest in the industry. This article provides an overview of the historical backdrop of the RMG business in Bangladesh, emphasizing its swift rise and the challenges it has encountered, encompassing several incidents. To tackle these difficulties, Bangladesh has implemented a range of programs aimed at improving social compliance management practices encompassing legislative reforms, international collaborations, and business endeavors that seek to protect worker rights, advance eco-friendly practices, and fortify the ethical framework of the industry. The study additionally examines the impact of consumer awareness and the global emphasis on social compliance, which have led to beneficial transformations within the sector. Notwithstanding these accomplishments, the study underscores the necessity for further measures to guarantee sustainability. The recommendations encompass enhancing regulatory frameworks, creating transparency, allocating resources toward worker training, empowering workers through unionization, enhancing safety and building standards, increasing teamwork, and advocating for environmental sustainability. By adopting the aforementioned suggestions, the RMG industry in Bangladesh can further advance its efforts in effectively managing social compliance, thereby safeguarding the well-being of its workforce and promoting the long-term sustainability of the sector.
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Cayaban, Cristel Joy G., Yogi Tri Prasetyo, Satria Fadil Persada, Rianina D. Borres, Ma Janice J. Gumasing, and Reny Nadlifatin. "The Influence of Social Media and Sustainability Advocacy on the Purchase Intention of Filipino Consumers in Fast Fashion." Sustainability 15, no. 11 (2023): 8502. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15118502.
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The large consumption of fast fashion brings many negative environmental impacts. Filipino consumers love and buy fast fashion because it is relatively cheap but trendy, and there are lots of fashionable designs to choose from. Despite the shortage in water supply and disposal issues of fast fashion, people still continue to purchase. The lack of awareness of consumers on sustainable fashion consumption led the researchers to conduct a study that aims to identify factors affecting Filipino consumers’ buying decisions on fast fashion using the combined theory of planned behavior, elaboration likelihood model, and hedonic motivation. A total of 407 participants were gathered through a convenience sampling approach, and the data collected were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The result shows that attitude towards fast fashion is the highest contributing factor to purchase intention. While social media positively affects purchase intention, sustainability advocacy negatively impacts the consumers’ intention to buy fast fashion. The awareness of sustainability leads to consumption reduction of fast fashion garments. Surprisingly, perceived product price and quality do not show a significant influence on purchase intention. Incorporating sustainability advocacy on social media may be a great strategy to encourage the sustainable consumption of fashion garments. The findings of this study could be a great tool to influence fashion companies and government institutions to promote sustainability awareness and transition marketing strategies to the sustainable consumption of fashion.
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Gardner, Laura, Femke de Vries, and Rowan McNaught. "On the paratextual thresholds of fashion: The creation and early analysis of a dataset of fashion magazine captions." International Journal of Fashion Studies 10, no. 1 (2023): 51–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/infs_00085_1.
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This article focuses on fashion ‘paratexts’ – text snippets such as titles, introductions and captions – as connotative and denotative forces within the ecosystem of the fashion magazine. Building on current research on fashion text and writing, we introduce the ‘Fashion Paratext Dataset’: a research project that explores the technical and aesthetic dimensions of fashion captions and their strategic role in the reading of fashion images. The project employs a methodology from data science to produce a substantial dataset of modern fashion captions that can be analysed and interpreted by the researchers. This article outlines the context, methodology and reports on initial findings of this research project which aims to further understand the way language, via paratexts, functions in the cyclical production of fashion and throughout its history as a modern industry. Further to this, we show how these liminal texts actively mediate editorial content within contemporary fashion media (a hybrid of digital and analogue platforms) and thus define how we relate to garments, and fashion.