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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Dressmaking"”.
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An extensive analysis and testing of wedding dress fabric
… each fabric’s individual characteristics to help dressmaking designers further their knowledge and better construct their wedding dress garments.</p>
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e‐Co-Textile Design: How can textile design and making, combined with social media tools, achieve a more sustainable fast fashion future?
… fashion has shifted dependence on skills such as dressmaking, repairing and altering, passed from one generation to the next. Because of the accessible and affordable nature of mass manufacture the consumer is becoming less active within the design, production and maintenance of their clothing. …
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A Gendered Analysis of Formal Vocational Education, Skills Development, and Self-employment in Accra, Ghana: Exploring enterprise development and outcomes of women’s self-employment in the feminized trades
… education in the domestic trades (catering and dressmaking) for women in Ghana leads to sustainable self-employment in the urban informal sector (UIS) in Accra. The research adopts a qualitative methodological approach using interpretive analysis to gain an in-depth understanding of the primary …
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The Impact of the Purchasing Power of Young, Employed, Modern Working-class Women on the Design, Mass Manufacture and Consumption of Fashionable Lightweight Day Dresses, 1930-1939
… stores, independent dress shops and home dressmaking as well as discussing the specific impact of this new product within the emerging mass manufactured goods mail order catalogue industry in England. In addition, these outlets of consumption are analysed in the context of old and new …
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A study of student and faculty reactions to the teaching of a course in priciples of clothing construction
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Textiles, Clothing, and Related Arts, 1962
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Styles Make Fights: Fashioning the Male Boxing Body in Contemporary British Boxing Ring Dress
This study is an anthropological and cultural exploration of professional male boxers and their boxing ring dress. In boxing, once fighters have debuted and become professional boxers, they have complete creative expression in the ring and the economic means to hire a designer who will create their …
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The development and evaluation of a comprehensive self-instructional manual for a college introductory clothing construction course
The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a comprehensive self-instructional manual for teaching basic construction principles and skills in a college introductory clothing construction course. The specific objectives were: (1) To develop an instructional manual which can be used to …
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Mundane Fashion: Women, Clothes and Emotional Durability
This research investigates emotional durability of clothing through the lens of a designer-maker practice. The current discourse on fashion futures urgently recognizes that a deeper understanding of the behavioural drivers behind long-term use of clothing is critical in order to move beyond …
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A study of patternmaking and the contributing factors making it a scarce and critical skill
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Applied Arts: Fashion, Durban University of Technology, 2018.