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Showing 1 to 20 of 200 for “"Clothes"”.
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In the Clothes of Others
<p>In the Clothes of Others is a collection of poems that begins with a nontraditional evocation of the muses and is followed by three different sections of poems. The thirteen poems in first section deal with how we use narratives to understand our daily lives and how those narratives often fail. …
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Mundane Fashion: Women, Clothes and Emotional Durability
… women’s routine relationships with the clothes in their wardrobes. Focusing specifically on what matters in everyday use, I examine the possible applications of emotionally durable design in fashion design and making. This approach challenges the imperative of disposability in fashion …
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Just not 'girly': Clothes, appearance and 'alternative' femininities.
The research focuses on 'alternative' femininities through the participants' narratives about their clothing, appearance, and body modifications. It examines how these are used to signal continuing resistance to certain traditional notions about femininity and how this resistance links to wider …
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Energy conservation with clothes dryers: evaluation of techniques
… the energy consumption of a household electric clothes dryer? The data were collected in July and August, 1981, using a Maytag washer and dryer. The preconditioned load used was a variation of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers' standard eight pound load with fiber content of cotton …
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Changing clothes: re-dressing voice for a stylish return
This paper concerns the idea of voice within the field of composition studies and more specifically the canon of style. I examine the current rise of style to a place of prominence within composition and take issue with the exclusion of voice from this resurgence. By looking more closely at the …
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Sartorial Choreography: The Materiality and Performance of Clothes-Making Gestures
The materiality of clothes is closely tied to bodily movement and performance, and fashion designers and researchers have explored how clothes become expressive through wearing and performing. However, while the performative aspects of wearing clothes have been extensively investigated, the …
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Ideology and Clothes: The Rise and Decline of Socialist Official Fashion
… past and the search for a totally new type of clothes. Socialist official fashion reflected the regimes' ontological fear of change and discontinuity, and in the later phases of socialism their need to dress up their new middle classes in civilian clothes. The socialist regimes failed to invent …
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Electroelastic Modeling and Testing of Direct Contact Ultrasonic Clothes Drying Systems
… the most energy during use is the electric clothes dryer. The common form of this technology in the United States relies on the generation of thermal energy by passing electrical current through a metal. The resulting heat causes liquid within the clothing to evaporate where humid air is …
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The Storytelling Entrepreneur Has No Clothes: Risks and Rewards of Narrative Pitching
Scholars have shown that individuals and organizations can tell resonant stories, or narratives, to persuade audiences to evaluate them more highly. Yet other research has cast doubt on the persuasive power of storytelling, particularly for professional audiences like investors. To explore the …
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The Emperor's New Clothes: Media Representations Of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 1990-2005
The purpose of this dissertation is to reflect on the author’s published work in the field complementary and alternative medicine, specifically that produced between 1996 and 2005. It examines how the production of this work was influenced by the author’s previous and concurrent experience as a …
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The logic of practice - understanding the Chinese newly rich consumers' status consumption in luxury fashion clothes.
Chinese newly rich consumers have gained substantial power in the luxury sector through their conspicuous consumption. Chinese consumers lack of cultural capital and inexperience in the purchase and use of material commodities in the luxury consumption field has led many to associate their …
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On-line Utopia or Emperor's new clothes? The virtualization of community through computer-mediated communication
The Internet and computer mediated communication offer new opportunities for communication studies. On-line individuals are encountering dramatic new possibilities for personal growth. This thesis critically interrogates these possibilities with its social psychological perspective. Through theory …
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The Autoptic Eye: A Methodology for Drawing Worn Clothes and Narrating the Past in Collections of Textiles and Dress
… subtle marks left by the bodies that wore the clothes, or cared for them, might be drawn as a way to elicit additional narratives of the past. Drawing has historically been valued as a way to think, document, communicate and produce new knowledge (Kantrowitz, 2012a; 2022). However, drawing has …
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Whose Clothes Are They Wearing Anyway? Sartorial Exchange, Disguise, and Accumulation in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
… to construct gendered characters through the clothes they wear. By placing these two disparate texts in conversation, I examine the exchange of clothing and how Chaucer and Dickens further this tradition within the father-daughter-husband triangle. Chaucer creates a traditional framework of …
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"Clothes Make the (One Like a Son of) Man": Dress Imagery in Revelation 1 as an Indicator of High Priestly Status
… that the concept of dress includes not only clothes but also ornaments, cosmetics, devices, treatments, equipment, and tools, and they have repeatedly maintained that dress communicates various types of identity. This understanding is useful inanalyzing the communicative properties of dress …
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The Child, the Emperor, and the Fabulous Clothes: Constructing a theory of how interpersonal difficulty in gifted adults arises, is perpetuated, and can be overcome
In the literature and research on giftedness there are ubiquitous references to interpersonal problems. This project investigated this by comprehensively bringing such references together and analysing them (textual analysis), and by interviewing 20 gifted adults about their interpersonal …
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"Few know an earl in fishing clothes": Fish middens and the economy of the viking age and late norse earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, Northern Scotland
This thesis studies the origin and role of wealth in the Viking Age (late 8th to 11th century) and Late Norse (11th to 15th century) earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, northern Scotland. It has four aims. Firstly, it attempts to elucidate the key sources of wealth in the earldoms and, more …
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An investigation of the components that influence the purchase decision of Congolese millennials in the Democratic Republic of Congo informal clothing market
… are tents housing vendors who sell second-hand clothes. These markets are becoming the millennials' shopping hubs as millennials are on a quest for uniqueness, fashion trends and value for money. Limited research regarding the shopping patterns and purchase decisions of Congolese millennials and …
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The Effects of Perspiration Application, Weathering Exposures, Washing Action of Automatic Home Clothes Washers, and Repeated Laundering on the Ultraviolet Protection of a Naturally Colored Lightweight Cotton Fabric
… exposures, washing action of automatic home clothes washers, and repeated laundering on the UVR protection of a NC lightweight cotton fabric. In addition, five fabric property changes in the test specimen after the treatments of perspiration, weathering exposure, washing action, and repeated …
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