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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Fashion Design (Menswear)"”.
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Clothing the professional football player: A study of fashion and sportswear promotions 1950-1985
… this thesis is the promotions of a range of male fashions and sportswear by professional football players 1950-1985. The interpretation of these images is not confined to the promotions themselves but instead adopts a broader approach that embraces the narratives surrounding the promotions and …
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Styles Make Fights: Fashioning the Male Boxing Body in Contemporary British Boxing Ring Dress
… in the ring and the economic means to hire a designer who will create their custom boxing ring dress. Objects of boxing dress such as boxing trunks, robes, boots, jackets, and trunks that are worn in the boxing ring often contain embellishments that are distinctive to the boxer’s history, …
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The Janissaries and their bedfellows: Masculinity and male homosexuality in early modern Ottoman Istanbul 1500-1826
… and identifications and modes of self-fashioning from an interpretive framework. My original contribution to knowledge is to consider these connections within a broader historical setting of social transgression, masculinity construction and gendered power relations between state and …
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Developing a Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Sportswear Design Practice: Focusing on Consumers with an Upper Limb Impairment or Difference
… research investigates how sportswear industry designers can better understand consumers with an upper limb impairment or difference to create adaptive or inclusive sportswear. Recently, an increase of inclusive and adaptive apparel has appeared on the market, but many disabled consumers remain …
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Sartorial Choreography: The Materiality and Performance of Clothes-Making Gestures
… 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 choreographic side of making clothes, …
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Men’s Fashion in the Twenty-First Century: Contestation, Inclusive Masculinity, and the Body
Men’s Fashion in the Twenty-First Century: Contestation, Inclusive Masculinity, and the Body is a critical appraisal submitted as part of my PhD by published work. This thesis brings together five pieces of research published between 2015 and 2022 investigating how innovative men’s fashion has …
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Tailoring Digital Touch: An ethnography of designers' touch practices during garment prototyping and the potential for their digitisation
At a time of rapid digital transition in garment design industries and education, this thesis ethnographically documents garment designers’ use of touch and its role in meaning-making and understanding during garment prototyping. A novel diffractive ethnographic attention is utilised to attune to …
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Back to the Future of Fashion Past: Re-Fashioning Future Garment Making
… This research investigates historic re-fashioning skills through three case studies. The case studies span a 200 year time frame, from the mid-18th century to the mid-20th century, incorporating significant periods of change in textile and garment production, both industrial and …