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Full-Text Articles in Fashion Business
Big Business, Small Plastic, Hannah Johnson
Big Business, Small Plastic, Hannah Johnson
Senior Honors Projects
No abstract provided.
Women's Self Perceptions And Fashion Industry Rhetoric, Grace Cody
Women's Self Perceptions And Fashion Industry Rhetoric, Grace Cody
Senior Honors Projects
No abstract provided.
The Evolution Of Women's Opportunities In The Workplace: A Look At The Past To Interpret The Present, Emily Milich
The Evolution Of Women's Opportunities In The Workplace: A Look At The Past To Interpret The Present, Emily Milich
Senior Honors Projects
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Transgender Identity And Dress Behavior, Lauryn Devine
Transgender Identity And Dress Behavior, Lauryn Devine
Senior Honors Projects
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine how transgender individuals experience their bodies (e.g. body dissatisfaction) and how their body experience affects their shopping and clothing experiences. Clothing is often used as a way to define and express oneself. Therefore, if transgender individuals have a negative shopping experience and a negative outlook on clothing, it could make it more difficult to express their true identity. Society places extremely high expectations on individuals regarding appearance, which can be psychologically and emotionally difficult for cisgender individuals, but even more egregious for those individuals who do not fit society’s conventional gender …
Mirror Of Culture: The Study Of A Nineteenth-Century Sewing Diary, Elizabeth M. Dellabadia
Mirror Of Culture: The Study Of A Nineteenth-Century Sewing Diary, Elizabeth M. Dellabadia
Senior Honors Projects
Hidden inside the library of the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts is wonderful resource for the study of late nineteenth-century America. When Ann Eliza Cunningham was middle aged, she compiled a sewing diary that included scraps of material from dresses she wore or China trade fabrics brought home by her father. Ann Eliza not only included assorted swatches; but she associated the fabrics with different events in her life. She includes swatches from dresses she wore on her wedding day in 1856, for Thanksgiving, and for various family celebrations like birthday parties. Similar to the work of a …