Call number: LD2668 .T4 1962 B38

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1963 A57 / Master of Science

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1965 C28 / Master of Science

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1965 H341 / Master of Science

Survey questionnaires were utilized to solicit information from women between the ages of 65 and 74 who were in attendance at senior citizens' meetings. Primary objectives of the survey questionnaire were (1) to identify an optimum size range (most frequently occurring size) on which to base the measurement portion of the study, (2) to solicit information regarding the fit of clothing, and (3) to seek information regarding garment alterations required by these women. From the eighty-eight respondents, a purposive sample of twenty-one women between the ages of 65 and 74, and falling within optimum size identified in Phase I of the study, was selected for measurement. Fifty-six measurements were made on each subject. The measurements were statistically analyzed and compared with the standard size 12 used by pattern companies and the ready-to-wear industry. The women in this study, by and large, were heavier and shorter than the reference size twelve to which they were compared.

The painting Plaza Mayor de Lima de los Reinos de el Peru, año de 1680, which is held in the collection of the Museo de América in Madrid, presents an idealized image of social interaction in the Plaza Mayor with its depiction of people from a variety of social groups. Little is known surrounding the painting’s commission, and recent scholarship focuses primarily on the colonial architecture within the image. This thesis seeks to shift the scholarly dialogue by examining the depictions of the female figures within the painting. As this thesis will argue, both the portrayal of the female figures in different modes of dress and the location of the figures within the painting document the ways in which distinctions in race and economic class were understood in seventeenth-century Lima. By analyzing the dress and the positioning of the figures, the interactions of Europeans, West Africans, indigenous and mixed raced persons are revealed.

Liu Chung Yan. / Thesis submitted in: September 2006. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-74). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.v / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.vi / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.viii / Chapter CHAPTER 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Woven Label --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Literature Review --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- Objectives of the Research --- p.7 / Chapter CHAPTER 2. --- EXPERT LABEL PATTERN DESIGN SYSTEM --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- Frame Based Expert System --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- How the System Modify the Label --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3 --- System Operation --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4 --- Software Development - VLabel --- p.16 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Color Settings for the System --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Generation of Label Template --- p.18 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Creating New Label from Label Template --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Other Editing Tools --- p.22 / Chapter 2.4.5 --- Font and Edge Library --- p.23 / Chapter 2.5 --- Application Examples of the VLabel software --- p.24 / Chapter CHAPTER 3. --- VIRTUAL LABEL SIMULATION --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1 --- Geometric Modeling of the Label --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Geometric Modeling of Fabric Structure --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Generation of the Geometric Model of the Label --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2 --- Deformation of the Label under the Deformation of Warp Yarns --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Model of a Woven Cell --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Analysis of the Stretched Warp Threads during the Weaving Process … --- p.50 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Analysis of the Warp Threads during the Relaxing Process --- p.51 / Chapter 3.3 --- Result of the Virtual Label Simulation --- p.52 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.62 / APPENDIX I. DEFINITION OF CLASSES IN EXPERT SYSTEM --- p.63 / APPENDIX II.PUBLICATION LIST --- p.69 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.70

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University

Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

This dissertation examines discourses surrounding religious dress in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly how various forms of religious dress were deployed by women. Analyzing the rhetoric used by women wearing distinctive religious garb as well as outsiders writing about religious dress, I show how religious dress not only held a variety of spiritual meanings for people of faith, but also served as a visual critique of a dominant Protestant paradigm that constructed religion as invisible, containable and private. I also show how discourses around religious dress were touchstones to negotiate larger cultural issues of the period between the end of the Civil War and the first two decades of the twentieth century, including consumerism and fashion, public education and secularism, and cultural imperialism. I position this project as an interdisciplinary cultural study in dialogue with scholars who engage with a wide variety of sources to trace developments in U.S. culture between the end of the Civil War and the first decades of the twentieth century. Yet, I intervene by drawing more attention to religion, and more specifically women’s religious dress, a category of analysis that has been virtually ignored by interdisciplinary U.S. cultural historians. Primarily using methods of literary and rhetorical analysis, I examine a variety of relevant primary sources, including novels, short stories, newspaper articles, denominational periodicals, promotional brochures, and legal documents such as court rulings and legislative proceedings. This project also intervenes in religious studies scholarship on dress. Most scholars who study religious dress focus on one religion. By examining discourses of religious dress across multiple groups, I illuminate how religious groups in the United States did not operate in vacuums, either apart from each other or from U.S. culture. Although religiously clothed persons may wear very distinct garb from each other, they share a commitment to wearing a visible marker of their faith. This opens up possibilities for a deeper understanding not only between groups, but also by outsiders. Thus, this project takes a more expansive approach than single-group studies, seeking to place multiple discourses in conversation with one another, especially within a context of hyper modernization, secularization, and imperialism at the turn of the century.