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Filtering by: Creator Barcellos-Hoff, Mary Helen Remove constraint Creator: Barcellos-Hoff, Mary Helen Committee Member Sugawara, Alan Remove constraint Committee Member: Sugawara, Alan Degree Field Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts Remove constraint Degree Field: Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts

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  • Perception of clothing clues by five-, nine-, and thirteen-year-olds

    Creator:
    Butzer, Peggy A.
    Abstract:
    The significance of dress in a first encounter situation has been demonstrated empirically: clothing serves as a vehicle for communicating information from one person to another. Thus, it is influential in affecting the formation of first impressions. This study was undertaken to explore the elements of dress that are most...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    variety with age" consequently tend to reduce pri- mary errors; however, they lead in turn to new forms

  • Dress and acculturation : clothing transitions of the Mien

    Creator:
    Hoffman, Elizabeth Lee
    Abstract:
    The Mien are recent United States immigrants from Laos. They left Southeast Asia at a time of great political upheaval. Because of their close ties with United States governmental operations during the Southeast Asian war, conditions for Mien in Laos made flight imperative as Pathet Lao forces now control the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    for Privacy Dean of Gradu e School Date thesis is presented October 25, 1982 Typed by Mary J