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Mitford at the fashion zoo
\"Mitford the giraffe has always dreamed of working at Cover Magazine, and when Panda Summers needs a new assistant, Mitford finally gets the chance. Together, can they save New York Fashion Zoo Week--or will it all be a disaster?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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\"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Adina wants to put together a perfect act for the school fashion show.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers
Investigates the fashions that New Zealand author Essie Summers uses to clothe her Mills & Boon heroines. Discusses the influence of clothing on communicating who we are to others. Describes how Summers’ descriptions of fashion evolved and provided a clear sense of how brooding, high-spirited heroines dressed. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction
In her immensely readable and richly documented book, Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing. Even as the Education Acts of 1870, 1880, and 1891 extended the privilege of print literacy to greater numbers of the populace, stitching samplers continued to be a way of acculturating girls in both print literacy and what Kortsch terms &dquotedress culture.&dquote Kortsch explores nineteenth-century women's education, sewing and needlework, mainstream fashion, alternative dress movements, working-class labor in the textile industry, and forms of social activism, showing how dual literacy in dress and print cultures linked women writers with their readers. Focusing on Victorian novels written between 1870 and 1900, Kortsch examines fiction by writers such as Olive Schreiner, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Margaret Oliphant, Sarah Grand, and Gertrude Dix, with attention to influential predecessors like Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Periodicals, with their juxtaposition of journalism, fiction, and articles on dress and sewing are particularly fertile sites for exploring the close linkages between print and dress cultures. Informed by her examinations of costume collections in British and American museums, Kortsch's book broadens our view of New Woman fiction and its relationship both to dress culture and to contemporary women's fiction.
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Balancing act
In this collection of four previously published works, Chloe, winner of the Teen Design Diva contest, embarks on her prize--an internship with a famous fashion designer in New York City.
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Generation Z’s intention to use digital fashion items in the Metaverse
Purpose
Fashion companies have been among the first to ride the new trend and develop projects for the Metaverse, considering Generation Z (Gen Z) as a relevant target. The paper aims to investigate Gen Z consumers’ intention to use digital fashion items in the Metaverse.
Design/methodology/approach
The study relies on the technology acceptance model (TAM). The authors include specific aspects of the Metaverse: the user-avatar identification and the development of an alternative identity; fashion innovativeness is discussed as a moderator variable. The model is tested on Gen Z consumers, with 329 survey responses collected in 2022 and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM).
Findings
The paper shows that the two external and explanatory variables the authors added, i.e. user-avatar identification and alternative identity, positively and directly impact the individual attitude to use digital fashion items in the Metaverse. Moreover, according to the proposed research model, the moderating effect concerning fashion innovativeness has positive and negative consequences.
Originality/value
Using TAM, the authors explored consumers’ perceptions (perceived usefulness and ease of use), attitudes and intentions regarding the new technology context (digital fashion in the Metaverse). This study enriched TAM with new consumer marketing constructs (user-avatar identification and alternative identity) and their relationships with consumers’ intention to use digital fashion items in the Metaverse. This study also contributed to TAM by exploring the relevance of moderating the effects of consumer fashion innovativeness on consumers’ intentions and attitudes in the novel context of digital fashion in the Metaverse. The paper contributes to the academic debate by focusing on the individual and personal sphere of the consumer moving in the Metaverse digital environment. The marketing-focused study develops research on Gen Z consumers to provide new insights and possible opportunities for marketers in the Metaverse.
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Fashion face-off
\"Mickey Williams is a top student at Fashion Academy of Brooklyn, the premiere school for aspiring designers. So it's no surprise when her teacher selects her to audition for a new competitive fashion TV show. Even better? Her BFF JC is selected too! But with a major prize at stake, the friendly competition turns into a full-on wardrobe war and the fabric starts flying!\"--Back cover.
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Affectivity of 'Pants Science': Speculative Clothing, Disco Elysium and Pattern Recognition
According to the fashion arm of the Estonian game studio, atelier.zaumstudio.com, FALN track pants and hoodie are available occasionally for €239 and in extremely limited quantities, so that the dedicated player can also experience 'a unique form of continuity in space, engineered with the most advanced Mirovan textures for maximum performance and sweat absorption.'1 Stina Attebery has noted how clothing has been 'as much a defining characteristic of cyberpunk as its cyborg and hacker characters or narratives of opposition to corporate control' (Attebery 2020: 228). Made by Japanese aficionados, the jacket is purported to be 'a fanatical museum-grade replica' (Gibson 2003: 10) of actual jackets worn by US Air Force bomber pilots, 'as purely functional and iconic a garment as the previous century produced' (11 ). Lee Konstantinou has consequently argued that Pattern Recognition draws on 'economic and marketing theories' to observe how 'a new type of person [...] must arbitrate between, on the one hand, the Bohemian impulse to develop distinct stylistic codes as a means of separating oneself from the market and, on the other, the seemingly unlimited power of the market to decode and commodify individual style' (Konstantinou 2016: 224). The ease with which they are able to do so signals the power of capital over consumer choice:
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