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  • The Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, finishing departments 1890-1962

    Creator:
    Allen, Patricia Gehrman
    Abstract:
    The Thomas Kay Woolen Mill operated between 1890 and 1962. The mill produced predominately woolen blankets and woolen fabrics for outerwear garments. Mission Mill Museum Association purchased the woolen mill after its closure in order to develop the property as a museum. The purpose of this study was to provide...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Apparel, Interiors, and Merchandising presented on May 4.1987. Title: The Thomas Kay Woolen Mill

  • Radon released during the simulated laundry process

    Creator:
    Ying, Tzung-hung
    Abstract:
    Public concern has recently focused upon the presence of radioactive radon in homes. The Environmental Protection Agency and others have researched this health hazard. Radon gas is given off during typical household water uses such as showering, bathing, dishwashing, and clothes washing. However, few studies have been performed on radon...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Commencement June 1989 APPROVED: Redacted for Privacy Professor of Apparel, Interiors, and Merchandising in

  • Home sewers' and fabric store managers' expectations of fabric store sales personnel's product knowledge, education, and experience

    Creator:
    Hughes, Heidi P.
    Abstract:
    Previous research suggests that fabric store customers are not satisfied with the service provided in fabric stores. According to the EBM consumer behavior model (Engle, Blackwell, Miniard, 1986) and Oliver's consumer satisfaction/dissatisfaction model (1981), fabric store customers' dissatisfaction may be a result of their unfulfilled service expectations. The purpose of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    OF Heidi P. Hughes for the degree of Master of Science in Apparel. Interiors, and Merchandising

  • Congruency between self-concept and store image within an elderly apparel consumer population

    Creator:
    Fukumura, Dawn H.
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    The purpose of the present study was to test the selfconcept and store image congruency theory with an elderly population. The self-concept and store image congruency theory predicts that individuals patronize stores that they perceive as having an image similar to their own self-concept (Martineau, 1958). The present study specifically...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Master of Science in Apparel, Interiors, Housing and Merchandising presented on April 24, 1990. Title

  • Relationship between fashion leadership and apparel buying behavior among Oregon women

    Creator:
    Johnson, Cheryl Cruzan
    Abstract:
    Researchers have investigated the behavioral and demographic characteristics of fashion innovators, opinion leaders, and innovative communicators in samples drawn from populations residing outside of Oregon. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to examine differences between innovative communicators and non-innovative communicators in a sample of Oregon women in their...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Master of Science in Apparel, Interiors, and Merchandising presented on May 4, 1989. Title

  • Marketing practices of textile-related, home-based business owners

    Creator:
    Duggan, Lynette I.
    Abstract:
    The present research was an exploratory study which investigated the marketing practices of textile-related, home-based business owners. Questionnaires were mailed to 204 textile-related, home-based businesses throughout the continental United States. The final response rate was 42 percent with 86 useable questionnaires. A five-point semantic differential scale was used to measure...
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    Apparel, Interiors, and Merchandising presented on April 29, 1988. Title: Marketing Practices of Textile

  • Wardrobe expenditures of women employed full-time in five occupational categories

    Creator:
    Van Slyke, Ruth E.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to examine and compare annual work wardrobe expenditures, work wardrobe expenditure influences, and selected demographic characteristics of women employed full-time in five occupational categories: professional and technical, managerial and administrative, sales, clerical, and other. The survey questionnaire included an itemized list of 37 wardrobe...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Science in Apparel, Interiors, and Merchandising presented on July 26, 1988. Title: Wardrobe

  • The effect of Crafted with Pride in the USA cues on evaluations of sweaters made in the USA a developed country, and a developing country

    Creator:
    Surerus, Jo Anne M.
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    The present study examined the influence of Crafted With Pride in the USA stimuli and country of origin on consumers' attitudes toward and evaluations of clothing. The sample consisted of 112 female college students enrolled in one of three courses in the College of Home Economics, Spring term, 1988. A...
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    Masters Thesis
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    privacy Head of Department of Apparel, Interiors and Merchandising Redacted for privacy Dean of Gradua

  • The effect of music in fashion video advertisements on attitude toward apparel brand

    Creator:
    Hennessy, Karen E.
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    Products as diverse as soda-pop, fashion and automobiles are selling to the tunes of classic and current pop and rock music. The combination of MTV (Music Television), the latest audio-visual technology, and the replacement of movie stars by rock stars as the idols of contemporary youth (Beckett, 1985; Hartman, 1987),...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Arts in Apparel. Interiors and Merchandising presented on May 2, 1989. Title: The Effect of

  • Color in the work environment

    Creator:
    Ainsworth, Rebecca A.
    Abstract:
    This study examined the effect that three environmental hues had on subjects' work performance and on mood levels of anxiety, depression, and arousal in an office work environment. Pre-test post- test measurements of differences in work performance and mood levels were used to test twelve hypotheses. Work performance was measured...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Home Economics Apparel, Interior and Merchandising 29 courses 250 and 475, and were asked to