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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Fashion Design (Womenswear)"”.
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We Are not Designers: Pattern making and garment making as practices of co-design for social change
… this doctoral research project investigated how fashion design, and more specifically, the practices of making patterns and garments, can give them tools to enhance their agency and build community resilience. This research aimed to explore how pattern making and garment making can be used to …
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Developing Fashion Embellishment: Decorative Alternatives to Fur and Exotic Animal Materials
While the use of animal materials in contemporary fashion was fervently debated during the period of this research study, fur and exotic animal materials (such as feathers and reptile skins) remained appealing resources in the creation of fashion embellishment. The researcher’s prior experience …
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The Power and Postcolonial Meanings of Lingerie for Urban Professional Indian Women Living In India
… between the periods 2010 – 2014. The research design consisted of: a content analysis of lingerie advertising in the magazines Vogue India and Femina between the post-media-liberalisation years 2003 to 2014; visual and textual analysis of lingerie in three selective Indian films; 106 …
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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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The Modern Woman's Business Suit - An Investigation into Incorporating Freedom of Movement in the Block-pattern Construction for Soft-tailored Mass-produced Womenswear
… field of garment construction for mass-produced womenswear, as it is the repeatable and time and cost sufficient method of flatpattern construction. In Europe the mass production of womenswear dates from the post World War 2 period. In the 1950s, traditional menswear was adapted and simplified …
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Mundane Fashion: Women, Clothes and Emotional Durability
… 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 symptom-based solutions to fashion and …
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Block Pattern adaptation for Greek female adolescents with Scoliosis of the Spine: An investigation into the feasibility of incorporating body shape asymmetry into Sizing Systems to improve garment fit
… issues at the intersection of human anatomy and fashion, while it takes place in Greece, starting with measuring procedures specifically adapted for body asymmetry that comply with the appropriate code of ethics. External body measurements provide non-invasive evaluation of changes in external …
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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 …
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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
… largely untold history of the demand for cheap, fashionable clothing for young working-class women. The term “agents of change” is of deep significance to this study that argues and proves that the close analysis of the consumption choices and the wearing of lightweight day dresses of this …