Classroom Mistakes in Use of Photoshop and Illustrator for Fashion Design and Presentation and Advices and Suggestions for the Fashion Instructors

The demand and requirement of skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop is increasing for fashion industry based on the analysis of job recruiting websites such as the fashion career section in Women\u27s Wear Daily (WWD) (www.wwd.com). In addition, there have been more fashion companies required the Adobe skill for their internship opportunity

Diffusion of Appearance Information from Consultant to Client

The purpose of this study was to examine how a client’s perceived similarity to (homophily) and differences (heterophily) from a stylist impacts adoption of a fashion message. The stylist or appearance consultant is a significant influencer in the fashion industry, creating new looks and sellable fashions (Shala, 2012). Appearance messages, unlike other products, can be complex given the fashion look, the individual wearer, and the various contexts where it is found (Damhorst, 1999)

College Students’ Perceptions and Practices Towards Environmentally Friendly Clothing: A Comparison and Exploratory Study

Despite the growing interest of environmentally friendly clothing (EFC), there have been discrepancies among customers in defining EFC. The purposes of this study were to assess the participants’ environmental orientation and environmental knowledge toward EFC, to compare them in terms of college major and gender and identify relationships between orientation and knowledge, and to acquire the current perceptions and practices toward EFC. The revised New Environmental Paradigm scale (NEP) with 15 items, the Environmental Apparel Knowledge scale (EAK) with 11 items, and the developed perception and practice question sets with 12 items were used. A total of 122 undergraduate students participated through an online survey. Results indicated that students in sustainability-related majors have higher ratings in knowledge than students in other majors. Gender was not found to make a significant difference in either orientation or knowledge ratings. Orientation and knowledge were positively correlated, but not strongly. Results present the need for reinforcement of sustainable contents in university curricula. Practical feedback from this study has the potential to assist with the development of effective marketing campaigns. Sample size and grouping of majors are possible limitations in this study

Development of Bodice Basic Pattern Algorithm Using 3D Human Body Shape Body Surface Pattern Flattening

This research has departed from the standard method of flat surface binding of mesh pieces that requires various transformations and restrictions, and instead has attempted to conceive a novel approach that can develop 3D body surfaces into 2D level. Opposed to existing standard pattern flattening method which took utmost reflection of 3D body surface forms, this research placed its center on standardization of 2D flattened pattern forms appropriate for high utilization of final 2D body surface flattened pattern outputs

Arm armor systems: Fit analysis and performance factors

Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to compare the performance effects and perceptual responses of subjects wearing three different arm armor systems versus no arm armor. Armor treatment with four levels (control garment and arm armor systems A, B and C) and shoulder/arm movement treatment with five levels (flexion, extension, abduction, horizontal flexion, and horizontal extension) constituted the independent variables. There were five dependent variables: range of motion (ROM), localized pressure, garment impediment perception, wearer acceptability, and visual armor coverage. Ten volunteer healthy males, ranging in age from 19 to 30 years, who wore size medium battle dress uniform with recent experience serving in the military or in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps served as subjects. This experimental study contained two major sessions: 1) a one-hour "Pre-test procedure", and 2) a two-hour "Test procedure". Subjects were instrumented with localized sensors and performed five selected shoulder and arm movements in a 3D body scanner chamber while wearing each of the armor treatments. Data for five dependent variables were gathered simultaneously.Findings and Conclusions: The dependent variables were analyzed primarily using one and two-way repeated measures ANOVA. For localized pressure, no significant main effects for armor system nor for movement in areas 1 and 2 were found, possibly due to several methodological issues. Significant main and interaction effects were found for ROM. There was a trend for ROM to decrease from subjects wearing the control to system A to system C to system B for all five movements. For wearer acceptability, no significant differences were found between the control and system A for all eight items, indicating that subjects did not perceive a difference between wearing the control and the control plus arm armor. There was a trend for wearer acceptability to decrease from wearing the control armor to system A to system C to system B. For visual armor coverage, significant main and significant interaction effects were found. Mean differences were apparent between system A and system B with system A providing more coverage except for flexion

An Analysis of the Difference between Direct and Automated Anthropometric Measurement Using a 3-D Tool for the Age Group of 70-85 Elderly

In this study, the suitability of an automated anthropometry method was evaluated by comparing the data of direct measurement and automated measurement, and considered is the potential modification of automated methods based the results of the study

Building Networking Skills as Part of a Fashion Internship Course

Networking has been identified as one of the critical components in career exploration and professional development (Paulins, 2005). Researchers have emphasized the importance of networking referring to the prevailing wisdom, which suggested that 70-80% of professional jobs are acquired through effective and consistent networking (Kross-Feder, 1999). De Janasz and Forret (2008) commented that many students lack knowledge and skills for effective networking

Fabrication of n-type nanotube transistors with large-work-function electrodes

The authors found experimentally that carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) could exhibit n -type characteristics even though their electrodes consist of a large-work-function metal such as Co. To explain their result, which is contrary to the general belief that CNFETs with large-work-function electrodes always lead to p -type characteristics, ab initio electronic structure calculation for the metal-carbon nanotube junction was performed, which showed that the Fermi level alignment at the junction could sensitively depend on microscopic structures of the metal-carbon nanotube junction. This suggests that deposition method of electrodes as well as the metal type could be utilized to obtain n -type CNFETs.open121

Chiral orbital-angular-momentum in the surface states of Bi2Se3

Locking of the spin of a quasi-particle to its momentum in split bands of on the surfaces of metals and topological insulators (TIs) is understood in terms of Rashba effect where a free electron in the surface states feels an effective magnetic field. On the other hand, the orbital part of the angular momentum (OAM) is usually neglected. We performed angle resolved photoemission experiments with circularly polarized lights and first principles density functional calculation with spin-orbit coupling on a TI, Bi2Se3, to study the local OAM of the surface states. We show from the results that OAM in the surface states of Bi2Se3 is significant and locked to the electron momentum in opposite direction to the spin, forming chiral OAM states. Our finding opens a new possibility to have strong light-induced spin-polarized current in the surface states.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl