Cinderellas in Breeches

Selvedge is a specialist textiles magazine with an international circulation. An article which documents the biography of a pair of breeches issued as part of the uniform of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War. It considers the history of corduroy and its decline as a UK textiles industry, garment styling, manufacture and distribution to the land girls. How, where and when they were worn and the postwar biographies of breeches as ‘authentic’ uniform for living history or as stylish vintage fashion

Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion

An exploration of how the rose—the most ravishingly beautiful and symbolic of flowers—has inspired fashion over hundreds of years. The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing is a fascinating exploration of how the rose has inspired the way we look, dress, feel, and fantasize. It foregrounds innovative, refined, and challenging fashion design from elite 18th-century woven silks to the latest gender-neutral catwalk trends and Alexander McQueen rose dresses. Drawing upon fashion clothing, everyday dress, millinery, fine jewelry, perfume, and artificial and fresh roses, multiple expert contributors make reference to love, beauty, sex, sin, gendered identities, rites of passage, transgression, degradation, and death. This sumptuously illustrated book also includes a contribution and stunning images of roses by visionary photographer Nick Knight. Wild yet cultivated, savage yet delicate, this flower has remained an enduring symbol perhaps due to its versatility and the dichotomies it represents. Exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition, Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

Chants pour la maisonnée au chevet du défunt La communauté et l’exil dans les funérailles des Yézidis d’Arménie

Dans les villages yézidis d’Arménie, les funérailles sont un moment particulièrement important dans la vie de la communauté. En même temps qu’elles aident le passage de l’ici à l’ailleurs, elles permettent, de multiples manières, de réaffirmer l’unité et la continuité du foyer (mal) et de la communauté. Omniprésent dans les lamentations, l’exil, littéral ou métaphorique, est toujours lié à un état émotionnel particulier : la douleur de la perte. Cette douleur, qualifiée de « communautaire », est exprimée notamment à travers les mots, gestes et attitudes des lamentations.In Armenia’s Yezidi villages, funerals are particularly important in the life of the community. First of all, they help the passage from the “here” to the “elsewhere”. Further, they allow, in multiple ways, the continuity and reaffirmation of the household (mal) as well as of the community in all. The notion of exile, literal or metaphoric, is omnipresent in the laments, and always entails a specific emotional state : pain of loss. This pain is seen as “communal , and is mainly communicated through the laments’ words, gestures and attitudes

Faux Feminism in a Capitalistic Fever Dream: A Review of Greta Gerwig\u27s Barbie (2023)

Somewhere between meaningful discourse about female agency and the commercial interests of a problematic doll franchise lies Mattel\u27s box office hit film Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig. In a script-flipping interpretation of the real-world patriarchy, it catapults itself into overdue discussions about gender norms, objectification, and the pursuit of Westernized beauty ideals. While it may have introduced liberationist theories to a new generation of women, ultimately it is a film bound by cognitive dissonance. This paper will delve into the profit-making protagonist at the center of its story and argue the film\u27s underlying incompatibility with diversity, feminism, and social progress

Princes, Thieves and Death: The Making of Heroes amongst the Yezidis of Armenia

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from JSTOR via the DOI in this record.This chapter discusses for the first time the production of heroic paradigms among the Kurmanji Kurdish-speaking Yezidis of Armenia and adds to the existing literature on masculinities in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, using an approach derived from the ethnography of speaking. It identifies ciwanmêrî, a ‘traditional’ paradigm resembling the classical ‘princely virtues’ and identifies a newer contemporary paradigm coming from the post-Soviet ‘thieves in law’ model. It is not the values themselves, but the enactment of heroic feelings through the specific speech genre of kilamê ser which produces the heroes

PSVMC Nursing Reducing Anxiety With the Use of Aromatherapy Essential Oil Blends in Patients Awaiting Pre-scheduled Cesarean Section

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When Do People Trust Their Social Groups?

Trust facilitates cooperation and supports positive outcomes in social groups, including member satisfaction, information sharing, and task performance. Extensive prior research has examined individuals' general propensity to trust, as well as the factors that contribute to their trust in specific groups. Here, we build on past work to present a comprehensive framework for predicting trust in groups. By surveying 6,383 Facebook Groups users about their trust attitudes and examining aggregated behavioral and demographic data for these individuals, we show that (1) an individual's propensity to trust is associated with how they trust their groups, (2) smaller, closed, older, more exclusive, or more homogeneous groups are trusted more, and (3) a group's overall friendship-network structure and an individual's position within that structure can also predict trust. Last, we demonstrate how group trust predicts outcomes at both individual and group level such as the formation of new friendship ties.Comment: CHI 201

Elucidation of the effect of cannabinoids on er stress to determine their molecular mechanism of action in breast cancer cells

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is defined as an imbalance between the ER’s protein-folding load and folding capacity. ER stress is induced by various physiological conditions and subsequently triggers the activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) to re-establish homeostasis and promote cell survival. However, under severe or chronic stress, apoptosis is induced. Normal cells generally do not experience ER stress; however, stressful conditions in the tumour micro-environment facilitates chronic ER stress and UPR activation, which plays a pivotal role in tumour survival. Exacerbation of pre-existing ER stress can trigger cancer cell death, with a minimal effect on normal cells. Currently, no high-throughput method exists to detect and quantify ER stress in cell lines. This study showed that Thioflavin T, a fluorescent dye that binds to misfolded protein aggregates, can be used for the high-throughput detection of ER stress, and provides several advantages over currently used methods. Current literature suggests that cannabinoid treatment may induce cancer cell death via ER stress, however little is known about the mechanism of induction. This study proposed a mechanism that occurs via the influx of Ca2+ via the vanilloid receptor 1 (TRPV1), and subsequent ROS production, which affects protein folding. ER stress was induced using various cannabinoids and measured using Thioflavin T and western blot analysis. The effect of cannabinoid treatment on ROS production and the intracellular Ca2+ concentration was measured. Cannabidiol (CBD) was the most potent ER stress inducer, significantly increasing Ca2+ and ROS accumulation; however, the level of accumulated Ca2+ across cell lines varied, which may be due to the differences in the TRPV1 expression and localization. Concomitant treatment of CBD with an antioxidant significantly increased cell viability and decreased ER stress induction in the MCF7 cell line. Concomitant treatment with a TRPV1 antagonist increased viability in this cell line. In conclusion, the results suggested that CBD may induce ER stress via Ca2+ influx through the TRPV1 receptor, thereby elevating intracellular ROS levels and disrupting protein folding