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Personal Experiences of a Capsule Wardrobe
In recent years, various capsule wardrobe projects have been emerging in the U.S since the great interest in sustainability has increased with the growth of fast fashion. The ultimate goal of a capsule wardrobe is to urge people to purchase fewer apparel products of higher quality so that they will …
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'The emotional wardrobe': a fashion perspective on the integration of technology and clothing
… and computing technologists. 'The Emotional Wardrobe' is a practice-based research project that seeks to address this imbalance by integrating technology with clothing from a fashion perspective. It aims to enhance fashion's expressive and responsive potential by investigating clothing that …
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Christian Themes in the Filmic Representation of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Besides the Christian themes, I would like to lay emphasis on the filmic setting, as well. Firstly, I wish to study the features of the Gothic architecture and literature depicted in the film, namely, the representation of the frightening and gruesome atmosphere, the adoption of the supernatural …
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Emilie Grigsby’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The challenges and opportunities of personal collections of dress for a museum of art and design
… last decade there has been a proliferation of wardrobe studies exploring clothing accrued and worn by an individual over a lifetime. Stemming from multiple disciplines including fashion studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology and life-writing, these studies have revealed that wardrobes …
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Military Administration in Thirteenth Century England: A Study Emphasizing the Contributions of the Wardrobe in the Wars of Henry Iii and Edward I, 1216-1307
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T18:01:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6507081.pdf: 8612209 bytes, checksum: f7db9413ab3b4b516e435cd22170469f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965
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Re-Defining C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman: Conventional and Progressive Heroes and Heroines in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and The Golden Compass
… Their books The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and The Golden Compass straddle the period of writing that Karen Patricia Smith calls the Dynamic Stage of British Fantasy: from 1950 to the present. Both of these books are part of a larger series and both have been made into recent motion …
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Mundane Fashion: Women, Clothes and Emotional Durability
… routine relationships with the clothes in their wardrobes. Focusing specifically on what matters in everyday use, I examine the possible applications of emotionally durable design in fashion design and making. This approach challenges the imperative of disposability in fashion and foregrounds …
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Clothing for pregnant women
… outer garments, undergarments and shoes in the wardrobes of pregnant women were ascertained. The clothing was evaluated according to the likes and dislikes of the women for selected styles or garments, comfort in relation to the garment, ease of care, adaptability or garments to physical changes …
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What matters in Making and Cloth(ing)-led Facilitation in healthcare? Towards a practice framework for enhancing participation and collaboration.
… examine the mechanics of workshop methods. 2. A Wardrobe Probe : The design and deployment of a Wardrobe Probe, by the researcher, provides insight into the role of self-directed methods in the context of breast cancer care. By detailing ‘What matters in Making and Cloth(ing)-led Facilitation in …
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The Practice of Mending Caring-through-use: A Strategy for Clothing Longevity
… to repair participants’ existing garments. Wardrobe interviews were conducted before and after the workshops had taken place. Wrap-up interviews occurred five years later, to determine if mending was still practiced. To complement and further triangulate the findings of the preliminary study …
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Nothing More Delicious: Food as Temptation in Children's Literature
… C.S. Lewis’ <em>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe</em>, Roald Dahl’s <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</em>, and Neil Gaiman’s <em>Coraline</em> food is used as temptation for child protagonists, a tool to lure them into doing evil deeds or being generally mischievous. Some characters, …
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The Influence of Visualization on Fifth Grade Students' Comprehension
… individual copy of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in class. During this five-week period, the students independently read the chapters assigned to them. They then received either a standard lesson and cloze test or a visualization lesson and cloze test directly following each chapter. The …
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Clothing problems of the teen-age boy
… content and cost of an average teen-age boy's wardrobe was ascertained. The cost ranged from $157.20 to $518.00, with an average total cost of $175.00. A large percentage of the family income was spent on teen-age boy's clothing in all age groups. Most of the buying of the boys clothing was …
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Of Mushrooms and Shangri-L.A.: Food in Fantastic Literature for the Young
… by Lewis Carroll, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, and the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block.
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Women and trousers : being a work on dual garnitures and a case study of the bifurcated movement in nineteenth-century clothing for women in North America
… were not ultimately part of women's everyday wardrobe for another half century at least. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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The Household knights of Edward I.
… Based on an examination of the surviving wardrobe accounts and other documents the role of the household knights in many areas of royal government in England and Edward's other dominions has been assessed. The part they played in newly or partially conquered territories of Wales and …
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The beauty of prostheses : designing for female amputees
… interactions with the items in her feminine wardrobe, as clothes are a crucial part of expressing one's feminine identity. The diagrams allow the identification of areas of identity that will be most affected as a result of a particular amputation. Using the three use case diagrams in this …
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The Architectural Patronage of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749)
… court and in the military as Master of the Great Wardrobe (1709-49) and Master-General of the Board of Ordnance (1740-42, 1742-49), and was an important patron of learned societies, Huguenots, the arts and Freemasonry. This thesis examines Montagu’s newly-accessible private archives, institutional …
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Aesthetic expressions: punk dress and the workplace.
… conventional. Some individuals develop two wardrobes representing work and non-work while others prefer one versatile wardrobe. Interviewees strive to push with the boundaries of workplace appropriateness while reaching toward satisfying aesthetic self-expression. How interviewees manipulate …
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Come to Your Senses, Remember Belongings: A Pedagogy of Making, Memory and the Haptics of Home
… research. Beginning with evocative objects a wardrobe, a pair of shoes, a dress this dissertation traces a circuitous material journey to a sensual biography of place. It culminates in two exhibitions, Her Place and What was Learned There, and Her Place-Scraps, distinct drawing installations …
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