Tag: culture

  • Fashion Studies

    I may make this a tradition to read something outside the field on the weekends as the kids are going to bed. This field is an exciting one for me and I have had some connections stir this interest more for me. Clothing is a good indication of the material culture of a society for…

  • The Second Skin

    Moralists believe that our innate feelings of guilt and shame resulting from exposure of particular parts of body date back to Adam and Eve. And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apron, unto Adam also and to his…

  • Enclothed Cognition

    I have a couple library books checked out. As well as a reading queue. I find this research time is helpful in day to day work. I pray to keep to the path. comfort is mental – FCD This ties so much together from me, past work and questions about the cognitive modeling community with…

  • Wild, Minnesotan Muslim Clothing 2

    in 2006, Nike made sports uniforms for Muslim girls from Somalia at a refugee camp in Kenya so they could learn to play volleyball (“Nike Makes Sportswear,” 2006). Nike presented the girls with four possible uniform designs, and let them choose which one they would like to be made. Of the four designs, the girls…

  • Wild, Minnesotan Muslim Clothing

    Its bed time for the girls at my house and so this pomodoro might be interruped with the requiest for a snack or to watch our 1 year old while mom puts the older girls to bed. I have a question. No strict agenda. This is the wild pomodoro. I believe I read something about…

  • The Centerfold Syndrome

    Men compete in this way because they believe that the tokens of masculinity are in short supply. I don’t feel this way now, but I remember from about 14 – 19, maybe into some 20s I felt this way thought I never thought about it in quite these terms. when boys compete to be the…

  • The Way we look

    We need to understand our views and what makes them ours, but also we must understand the aesthetic views of other cultures and their relevance to the market. Increasingly the aesthetic codes and responses of another culture are important to understand. Aesthetic codes. Tell me more. Viewer I saw this language first in Dunne, Observer…

  • The Second Skin, Mores & Laws

    Clothes and the Law I have a feeling I’m going to be thankful for this chapter. This is something I’ve thought a lot about. Hard to say why. I often think of clothing as norms or as some standard placed on people by someone or something else. Restrictions on dress that are enacted into always…

  • The Second Skin

    Sex and Age Roles both sexes rejected all forms of dress that would in any way add to their physical attractiveness. Is this the ideal? Is to dress just shoring up ourselves, projecting something that isn’t really there? Their shabby, drab, and ‘mildewed’ suits became a badge of self-sacrifice to the state. This makes me…

  • Social Aspects of Wearability and Interaction

    Excited for all this. maybe especially the interaction pieces. clothing, accessories, worn artifacts, and body modifications that make “dress” Interesting. how socially comfortable and individual feels while wearing a piece of technology. subject to social perceptions and norms Someone might reject a wearable item because it doesn’t reflect the role with which they identify. static…