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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Womenswear"”.
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Global Branding for Fashion Entrepreneurs: How Womenswear SMEs Design Their Firms to Grow Internationally
… and internationalisation of entrepreneurial womenswear designer fashion enterprises (DFEs). Tis thesis presents an original contribution to knowledge by using the concept of dynamic capabilities as a ‘lens’ to explore the creation of brand identity in the context of the international fashion …
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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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Unraveling the high heel
… Still high heels have remained a staple of womenswear, always returning after brief sojourns out of style. This thesis unpack s the high heel, first looking at the effects of high heel use on the body before turning to the history of the high heel and discussing the reasons why countless w …
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We Are not Designers: Pattern making and garment making as practices of co-design for social change
Set within a global context increasingly hostile to women and girls, 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 …
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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
The purpose of this research is to investigate the power and postcolonial meanings of lingerie for urban Indian professional women (UIPW) living in India to better understand the consumer behaviour of lingerie consumption. This critical marketing studies thesis adds to the existing studies of …
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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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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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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
Scoliosis of the spine is defined as a side-to-side deviation from the normal frontal axis of the body resulting in body asymmetry, and as a complex, three-dimensional and multifaceted deformity, not only affects a female adolescent’s appearance - fit, usability and appearance of clothing - but can …
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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, …
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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
My thesis captures a significant and 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 …
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Estudio para incrementar las ventas del canal online de Lili Pink
El comercio electrónico ha tenido un crecimiento importante en las últimas décadas, especialmente, en el último año a causa de la Pandemia COVID-19, lo que permitió a las empresas, incrementar significativamente las ventas por sus plataformas digitales; sin embargo, en el caso de Lili Pink, el …