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Showing 1 to 20 of 364 for “"Dress"”.
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Registered Dietitian Dress and The Effect of Dietitian Dress on Perceived Professionalism
People use others' dress to make assumptions, including how they believe the wearer will behave. Observers then adjust their behavior in response to the anticipated behavior of the wearer. Physician or nurse dress affects the degree to which patients perceive the medical professional as confident, …
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Dress as therapy: Working with dress on the self in therapeutic settings
This thesis constitutes a critical analysis of “dress as therapy”. Hitherto unconnected dress-related therapeutic approaches to the self, rooted in different countries and medical disciplines, are brought together, systematically documented and critically scrutinised for the first time: “Therapy of …
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Flesh, A Naked Dress
"Flesh, A Naked Dress" is a collection of five poems: "Joy of the Perfect Tool," "Texas," "Estuary," "Flesh, A Naked Dress," and "An Event in the World." The form of the serial poem, adopted for this collection, is the one described by poet Jack Spicer. It is larger scaffolding for the poetry, …
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Dress to Repress: Exploring How Dress Codes & Norms Harm Black Women in the Workplace
Dress codes were originally based on safety practices but have evolved into standards around perceived professionalism that uphold White masculine norms in the workplace. At the crossroads of White male standards is Black women’s hairstyling habits. While some Black women may engage in impression …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
This thesis examines the significance of dress in literary constructions of gendered, especially female, diasporic identities and examines patterns of dressing as strategies that allow for engagement with a grander narrative that takes into consideration history and politics, mapped through changes …
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Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress
… the social and political quagmire of getting dressed. Comprised of contemporary art that looks at the rupture of legible bodily semiotics, this show wonders what new modes of expression form in their wake. Cruising the archive, what legacies and genealogies do artists engage, which ones will …
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Making Sense of Everyday Dress: Integrating multisensory experience within our understanding of contemporary dress in the UK
… to the wearer’s experience of everyday dress, yet this remains an under-researched area within fashion and dress studies.Dress is predominantly described in visual terms, while much less attention has been paid to other relevant sensory aspects such as; touch, sound, smell - and to a …
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Haberdashery for use in dress 1550-1800
… to set the provision and use of haberdashery for dress into the context of the Early Modern period, and challenges widely held assumptions concerning the availability of wares through the country. The purpose of the argument is firstly to demonstrate that haberdashery, being both a necessity and a …
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Aesthetic expressions: punk dress and the workplace.
Work and non-work dress for individuals who identify with the punk subculture involves thoughtful manipulation of appearance. This study asked: What are punk individuals’ experiences concerning the apparel-bodyconstruct for their workplace environments? These individuals negotiate between aesthetic …
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The fit of men's dress shirt collars
… research was to investigate the fit of men's dress shirt collars among men 18 years and older and sized small to large. Fit was evaluated by the subject's response to a comfort scale based on physical comfort. Static fit (ease) was determined by subtracting the neck measurement from the collar …
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The Constitutionality of Dress Code and Uniform Policies
… the constitutionality of public school dress codes based on an examination of relevant case law. The study addresses the following underlying questions: (1) Do students have a constitutional right to freedom of choice regarding their personal dress and grooming in public schools? (2) If …
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Examining factors that influence elementary teachers' dress habits
… finding of the study was that teachers say they dress because of the hands-on nature of the job, to make a positive impression on parents/guardians, to set a positive example for students, and because of the effect their dress has on student behavior. Implications for future research include …
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Exploring Dress and Behavior of the Emo Subculture
<p>The thesis analyzes the dress, behavior, and subcultural characteristics of "emo kids." Interviews, observations, and secondary text analyses are used to determine findings.</p>
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The Sources, Rhetoric, and Gender of Artistic Dress
… in the establishment of three camps of Artistic Dress, one allied with the current art nouveau movement, one an extension of the Reform movement, and a third related to the independence of women. In a study of the relationship of Artistic Dress to gender ideals of the period, a clear distinction …
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Dress and women's self-fashioning in Makonde, Zimbabwe
This study examines dress and women's self-fashioning in rural Zimbabwe. The main research question relates to how Korekore women experience, understand and interpret their dress choices to express their identities. Deploying social constructionism as theoretical frame, I build on decolonial …
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What to Wear: Businesswomen's Choice of Professional Dress
… the individual (e.g., gender, age), can affect dress choice. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the variables within the Choice of Professional Dress system and businesswomen's choice of professional dress along the classic–innovative fashion continuum (e.g., …
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What Would Jesus Wear? Dress in the Synoptic Gospels
… or to negotiate and locate identity, was through dress. Dress in the ancient Mediterranean context enabled a different kind of embodied knowledge than contemporary conventions of dress, and in order to understand passages in the synoptic gospels that use items of dress in the flow of their …
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Blue Collar, Red Dress: A Novel and Critical Commentary
… is comprised of a novel, 'Blue Collar, Red Dress' and a Critical Commentary. 'Blue Collar, Red Dress' is a work of fiction, based on my own experiences of growing up in Housing Commission flats in the 1960s. It is the story of Linda and Heidi, their friendship and their lives as they both …
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