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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Menswear"”.
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How can material culture analysis of fashionable menswear augment biographical and museological interpretations? A critical analysis of three wardrobes of menswear at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Fashion Museum, Bath
… interpretations of three wardrobes of menswear at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Fashion Museum, Bath. The thesis objectives propose and demonstrate a research framework combining methods from material culture, fashion studies, museology and life-writing fields. I focus on masculine …
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"Suitable for all parts": the transformation of menswear in the early American Republic, 1780-1830
… the stylistic transformations in plebeian menswear from the end of the Revolution through the first decade of the nineteenth century using data from over 2,700 Philadelphian runaway advertisements. The second chapter examines the dissemination of men's fashion into the American countryside …
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Fashion for the High Street: The Design and Making of Menswear in Leeds 1945-1980
This study reveals the often overlooked but highly significant role of the Leeds multiple tailors in the history of British men’s clothing and fashion from the 1940s to 1980. Focusing on these particular companies, their mass production of men’s tailoring, and the ways these garments were consumed, …
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Men’s Fashion in the Twenty-First Century: Contestation, Inclusive Masculinity, and the Body
… of gender have circulated in Western European menswear and fashion media from the turn of the millennium to 2021. The significance of the slender male body in fashion representation is examined in the context of shifting corporeal ideals and emerging image-making practices. The publications …
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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
… 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 for …
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German Masculine Fashion Culture during National Socialism and the Postwar Era: Constructing and Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustration
… Miracle”), the underexamined West German menswear industry sought to cultivate international diplomatic networks and incorporate new ideals of cosmopolitanism to redefine mid-century modern German identity. This dissertation thus analyses the work of West German fashion illustrators, in …
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Zero-waste fashion design : a study at the intersection of cloth, fashion design and pattern cutting
… creating zero-waste garments within contemporary menswear fashion design practice using cut and sew methods? Fashion design practice is the primary research tool in this study. Design processes and their outcomes are documented in a journal, and the journals are transcribed and analysed. …
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Clothing the professional football player: A study of fashion and sportswear promotions 1950-1985
The focus of 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 …
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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 Janissaries and their bedfellows: Masculinity and male homosexuality in early modern Ottoman Istanbul 1500-1826
This thesis investigates the relationships between male homosexuality, social transgression and the construction of masculinities in the early modem Ottoman Empire. To this end, it primarily focuses on Ottoman conduct and advice literature, court chronicles, sumptuary regulations and state rulings …
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Developing a Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Sportswear Design Practice: Focusing on Consumers with an Upper Limb Impairment or Difference
This 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
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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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
The analysis of historic garments can reveal hidden information of past construction and reconstruction processes. 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, …