Search for dissertations about: "dress"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the word dress.

2. 1. Dress Matters : Clothes and Social Order in Tallinn, 1600-1700

   Author : Astrid Pajur; Margaret R. Hunt; Jonas Lindström; Janine Maegraith; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dress history; material culture; seventeenth century; social order; Sweden; Tallinn; social hierarchy; early modern guilds; consumer revolution; fashion; clothing; Historia; History;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores the relationship of clothes and social order in early modern Europe. The period has often been characterised as inert and immobile, with especially middling and poorer people living in a sartorially drab world, but a number of historians have demonstrated that it was also a period of profound material change, with consumer demand, democratisation of fashion and global trade engendering cosmopolitan sensibilities earlier than thought. READ MORE

4. 2. Order and Adornment : The Role of Dress in Plutarch

   Author : Peder Flemestad; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Plutarch; ancient dress; textile terminology; dress terminology; Imperial Greece; ancient Greek literature; Latin literature; inscriptions; Greek papyri;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the role of dress in the ancient Greek author and intellectual Plutarch. The works of Plutarch comprise one of the most prolific authorships preserved to us from classical antiquity. READ MORE

5. 3. Dressing wearing : Movement directed by dress - dress directed by movement

   Author : Ulrik Martin Larsen; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : Contemporary dance and modern ballet often focus on conveying emotions through patterns of movement which may be abstract, obvious, or anywhere in between, supported by music, sound, or spoken words that set the mood. Scenography is typically sparse or confined to the available space, leaving the dancers as the main instrument of communication. READ MORE

6. 4. On seeing : in fashion design

   Author : Stefanie Malmgren De Oliveira; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; seeing; fashion design process; image; dress; visual language; Textiles and Fashion Design ; Textil och mode konstnärlig ;

   Abstract : In fashion design, the designer strives for the development of ideas in view of significant visual goals. The process of specifying and developing ideas is a highly visual process. READ MORE

7. 5. Streetlife in Late Victorian London : The Constable and the Crowd

   Author : Peter Andersson; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; London; Victorian London; streetlife; nineteenth century; urbanism; urban history; policing; police constable; performativity; everyday life; behaviour; interaction; traffic; dress; manners; class; crowd;

   Abstract : This study examines the streetlife of London at the end of the nineteenth century from the perspective of behaviour and practice. In reaction to the large number of works on the Victorian city based on a study of literary sources, this thesis takes the approach of analysing social interaction in the street. READ MORE