Search for dissertations about: "clothes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 65 swedish dissertations containing the word clothes.

2. 1. Body Acts Queer

   Author : Maja Gunn; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Body; Clothes; Design; Desire; Direction; Fashion; Feminism; Gaze; Gender; Ideology; Other; Perception; Performance; Performative; Performativity; Power; Research; Sexuality; Text; Queer; Writing.; Textiles and Fashion Design ; Textil och mode konstnärlig ;

   Abstract : Body Acts Queer is an exploration of the performative and ideological functions of clothes with regard to gender, feminism and queer. It is an artistic, practice-based thesis in the field of fashion and design. The thesis includes three projects: On & Off, If you were a girl I would love you even more and The Club Scene. READ MORE

4. 2. Tailoring the Unique Figure

   Author : Niina Hernández; Gothenburg University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; dressmaking; pattern construction; pattern adaptation; figure registration; body measurement; disfigurement; clothes; garment; made-to-measure; mass customisation; klädsömnad; mönsterkonstruktion; tillskärning;

   Abstract : Today, it is possible to offer customers a garment to order according to their desires and body figure. The new, more automatic, equipment and software make the process faster and possible to realise. However it is important to have the basic knowledge about how to adapt the patterns according to the many variations of figures that exists. READ MORE

5. 3. Old Swedish Business in New International Clothes : Case Studies on the Management of Strategic Resources in Foreign-Acquired Swedish R&D firms

   Author : Angelina Sundström; Jan Löwstedt; Esbjörn Segelod; Svante Schriber; Jim Andersén; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

   Abstract : Which conditions are needed for research and development firms to stay competitive? Such firms must continually develop new products and processes if they are to provide their customers with value, and equal, if not exceed, the offerings their competitors provide. Firms that lack sufficient innovation and creativity risk losing customers, their reputation, and their position in corporate structures and in their industries. READ MORE

6. 4. Used Clothes and Social Goods: Two economic problems

   Author : Rick Wicks; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Paper 1: used clothes; second-hand; imports; exports; LDCs; development aid.Paper 2: altruism; caring behavior; club goods; communitarian; communities; complete markets; complete contracting; economic ideology; economic theology; general equilibrium theory; inherent non-marketability; methodological individualism; neoclassical economics; rational choice; religion of the market; rhetoric of economics; separability; social capital; social economics; social environment; social goods; social institutions; social realm; social values; social wealth; social welfare; three realms; universal market;

   Abstract : PAPER 1: Used Clothes As Development Aid: The political economy of rags Report of a study for Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) by Rick Wicks and Arne Bigsten Abstract: Should Swedish used-clothes exports continue to be subsidized as development aid? Theoretical analysis and review of empirical evidence regarding effects of both commercial and charitable (subsidized) used-clothes imports in LDCs. Includes statistics on the world used-clothes trade, including 127 gross used-clothes-exporting countries and 181 importing countries in 1990 (with values, weights, average prices, and weights-per-capita), and some specifics of U. READ MORE

7. 5. 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