A self-efficacy approach to mediating gender disparity in body satisfaction

Our purpose was to take a self-efficacy viewpoint in examining gender disparity in body satisfaction and to the role of exercise within lifestyle

Designing apparel for Nigerian women: addressing visual appeal, body type and sizing.

Nigerian women’s desire for Western style apparel is mostly expressed through requisitioning custom-made clothing for upcoming social events where one African textile print is selected for all clothing people wear to the event. With growing demand for Western style apparel, dressmakers have challenges in having the resources or expertise to fit and flatter women of various sizes in western styling. As a result, most dressmakers limit their clients demanding western style apparel to smaller size women. The purpose of this study was to combine western style apparel with Nigerian fabric called Ankara to create designs to fit and flatter Nigerian women attending the same occasion. The Functional, Expressive and Aesthetic (FEA) Consumer Needs Model (Lamb & Kallal, 1992) was the conceptual framework for designing and interpreting an online Nigerian Target Market Preference Survey distributed to Nigerian women through women’s associations in Nigeria

Upcycling approach to designing to highlight traditional weaving and knitting techniques.

Our co-design research was focused on balancing looking forward to the future while looking backward over the past. To protect our future, designers need to emphasize sustainable practices. However, sustainability as a design approach often lacks the visual impact needed to entice wearer investment. Upcycling is a promising contemporary sustainability strategy for converting waste materials innovativly into new products with better quality instead of just reusing. Looking to the past in apparel and textile design nostalgically looks to the Arts and Crafts Movement where traditional hand structuring of textiles and apparel were honored techniques. Thus, the purpose of this design process was to create an original design that integrated upcycling of used textiles with use of traditional crafts for textile and apparel structuring

Investigating School Uniform Design of Adolescent Girls in Saudi Arabia

The purpose of this research was to apply a functional, aesthetic, expressive consumer needs (FEA) model to designing and evaluating school uniforms that balance these three FEA consideration within the needs of adolescent girls in Saudi Arabia. Vitamin D deficiency is very common among adolescents in Saudi Arabia. Sunlight helps skin to produce Vitamin D. A total of 210 Saudi Arabian mothers responded to an online FEA needs survey regarding their daughter\u27s school uniform needs relative to the newly adopted Current Style Uniform and the proposed Design Styles A and B. Quantitative survey questions on a 7-point Likert scale were combined with several open-ended questions designed to obtain critique of the three types of uniforms. Results showed strong demand for modifying uniform designs to incorporate tan-through fabric could contribute to mediating this health concern

Production and characterization of bacterial cellulose fabrics

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of using BC nonwoven as textile fabrics to make consumer products. The objectives were: 1) to study the influences of fermentation conditions on the production of BC fabric; 2) to investigate the physical and mechanical properties of BC nonwovens (thickness, weight, tensile strength, tearing strength, and stiffness); and 3) to study the possibility of producing inherently colored BC nonwovens

Social Responsibility Initiative: A Multi-Class Project for Developing Reusable Food Bags

Social Responsibility (SR) in Clothing and Textile Discipline •In teaching apparel and textile product development, it is critical that our students understand the larger social responsibility context of how the knowledge they have learned can benefit the society. •Sustainable apparel design approaches include multiple usage, upcycling, minimum waste, and computer aided design that reduce time and materials or insure long term use