Dress Code Research Articles

Religija u evropskim javnim prostorima / Religion in the European Public Spaces

This chapter discusses the distinguish between media cases from court cases, concerning Muslims and Sikhs which deal with religious dress codes in the common, political and institutional public spaces. It proves the real issue is not the religious symbol in itself but what it reminds the public of: from the Islamic threat' to the peaceful Sikh community that rescues the Italian parmesan', the media give their own interpretation of the events and news related to religious issues, influencing people's attitudes and common knowledge. Indeed Italian history, characterized by divisions and local arrangements which did not contribute towards creating a strong sense of belonging to the Nation and where the Catholic faith has always been a predominant element of the citizens' identity has often been an example of pragmatic local solutions and arrangements as regards the effects of religious pluralization, such as the greater visibility of religious dress codes in the public spaces.

LANGUAGE ĠS A UNĠQUE INSTRUMENT OF CULTURE

The article deals with the continuity of language and culture based on historical data. The study analyzes the definitions of the word culture and focuses on its nature. It is also important to understand that ancient culture refers to the spiritual and material knowledge of the people, as well as their national mentality, national consciousness, worldview, customs and traditions. The concept of knowledge formation is analyzed. And its coexistence with language is described as «language is a mirror of culture».The main theme of the article is the continuity of language and culture, which have been intertwined since ancient times, their role in the formation of spiritual and material vocabulary in society. At the same time, the role of language in the public consciousness, customs and traditions, rituals is shown and analyzed in the most comprehensive way. Because with the help of language and culture, a culture of speech, behavior, customs, rituals, dress code, art and ethnic symbols, etc. have been formed. The main issue of the article is the continuity of language and culture, which is understood by the people in terms of spiritual and material knowledge. In a word, language and culture is a complex concept that covers the entire national mentality, national consciousness, worldview, customs, spiritual and material wealth, starting with personality traits.

Call Me

Call Me Terri Nowak (bio) Air conditioning blasted inside the library. Though it was late September, a heat wave had struck. I shivered and shelved books. The liveliest day of the year was here, the Friday of Banned Books Week, and the library was electric. This year, I dreaded going alone to the employee party in the evening. Everyone dressed up and brought their plus ones to Sjonan, a restaurant awash in natural light, with timbered beams and Scandinavian decor and complicated food. Last year, my boyfriend at the time, Steven, went with me, and after each introduction, he would take me aside and whisper things like, “What happened to her face?” or, “Didn’t anyone tell him the dress code?” He chatted up the blonde server with a high ponytail. This was the same Steven, a photographer for the Duluth News Tribune, who would later break up with me because he wanted to date someone more interesting. At 5:25, another librarian, Laura, approached through the aisle of books, lit from within. “Ellen, remember to bring your banned book for the exchange tonight.” She sang the last words like a show tune. I liked Laura. We bonded the day I caught her in the break room plucking an empty Diet Coke can from the garbage and dropping it into the recycle bin with an expression of disgust. She was unusually interested in my love life, which I didn’t think was that interesting. Maybe after being married to an insurance adjuster for 24 years and raising two children, anyone single seemed exotic. Maybe she thought of me the way a zookeeper thinks of the fennec fox, a rare canine with a tiny body and huge ears. It’s hard to look away from something like that. I tugged on my left braid and nodded. I was excited to bring my banned book, The Graveyard by Marek Hłasko, a cautionary tale about the realities of life for the average comrade under Poland’s communist regime. I hadn’t been too interested in my Polish ancestry until a few years ago, when a visiting author commented on my last name. I began to pull fragmented memories from childhood, how my father called me his myszka, little mouse, and told vignettes of hardship from the old country, though he was born in Minnesota and had never been to Poland. “It might be too soon to ask,” Laura said. She put her hand on my shoulder. “Are you bringing a date?” [End Page 93] I hoped I didn’t look pathetic. “No date.” I smoothed the crop of stray hairs that formed at my crown. “I’ll probably have more fun than last year. Steven was so rude.” Laura’s mouth tensed. I knew she couldn’t agree with me. Steven had charmed her. “At any rate, I’m glad you’re coming,” she said. I wasn’t sure. Going to a social event without a date was the Olympics of single womanhood. Laura gave me a double thumbs-up with a grim smile and buzzed away. The shelving of books relaxed me. Genre, fiction. Author, Austen Jane. Title, Pride and Prejudice. I used my fingers to make a space between Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility and slid the trade paperback into place. ________ After work I meandered home and thought up wild excuses for missing the party. I stopped short when I saw an old payphone kiosk, a concrete post with rusty holes where the phone had been. Across the top was the cornflower blue and white graphic of a phone and circled bell. I could almost see my father reach for the receiver in a flash of aviator sunglasses and lip-dangled cigarette, a pause from so many life imperatives to call his daughter. In his head were promises he wanted to keep. He would be home in time for my birthday. He would take me to Poland to meet distant cousins after my high school graduation. He loved me. The last time I heard from him, his parting words imprinted on my ten-year-old self, “I’ll call again soon, myszka.” I circled the relic and ran...

From an Intangible Idea of a Fashion Collection to an Intangible Digital Future. A Yannis Tseklenis Vase Look Dress

Fashion is defined as changing styles in dress and appearance, adopted by a group of people in a specific place and time; it also relates to the market economy. Roland Gérard Barthes (1915–1980) noted that the annual change in dress code means that the consumer has a new code to learn from year to year, and in this process of learning, fashion magazines have an important role to play. Fashion magazines fulfil this role by combining image with text.
 Since the 1950s, developing countries with a surplus of unskilled labour were in an advantageous position to attract investments for industrial units that would produce cheap products, as the cheap labour cost of the work hour made them extremely competitive. Developed countries with skilled workforces could only compete with the production of items requiring know-how and high-tech infrastructure if they could justify higher labour costs. These countries, however, had no choice but to import mass-produced goods, produced in developing countries with cheaper labour, such as Greece.

Infection control measures to stop the spread of sequence type 15 OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in a Swedish Burn Center

ObjectiveTo describe the course of the outbreak and infection control measures to stop the spread of sequence type 15 OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in the Burn Center of Uppsala University Hospital, between November 2014 and the end of April 2015. MethodsCompliance with hand hygiene, dress code, and cleaning routines were reviewed, the ward’s environment was systematically investigated to identify potential environmental sources. Sampling routines for A. baumannii, from patients and environment, were established, and the epidemiological relationship was analysed for all carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii isolates using arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). ResultsA total of 54 patients were treated at the burn intensive care unit during the studied, approximately five months period, and an OXA-23-producing A. baumannii was isolated from nine patients (9/54, 17%), whereof two died (2/9, 22.2%). All isolates shared identical PFGE-genotype patterns and belonged to sequence type 15; AP-PCR was eligible for prompt epidemiological investigations. ConclusionsHigher awareness and increased compliance with hand hygiene and dress code as well as intensified cleaning protocols of the environment and equipment were successfully established and likely to have led to stop the spread of sequence type 15 OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii.

The Fashion System’s Environmental Impact: Theorizing the Market’s Institutional Actors, Actions, Logics, and Norms

Drawing on institutional theory, we examined New York Times readers’ views on fashion’s environmental impact by analyzing and interpreting comments posted in response to a sustainability and fashion-focused opinion article. Based on our interpretations, we developed a model to think through new opportunities in the mechanics of the organizational field of fashion. Collectively, readers identified multiple actors responsible for fashion market’s environmental footprint: consumers, industry, and governing institutions. Further, readers offered various approaches for addressing the fashion environmental footprint—from conscious consumption practices to industry shifts and governmental regulations. We discovered two fashion logics—the logic of dress codes and the logic of planned obsolescence—that extend our understanding of the fashion system. The two fashion logics operate within the larger, overriding logic of capitalism that defines the behaviors of and relationships between the actors in the fashion marketplace. Recognizing societal norms, or institutional logics, that serve as barriers to a sustainable future of the fashion market has profound implications for realizing this future. We demonstrate how the fashion logics are being challenged for their moral legitimacy as the logics’ materialistic values are at odds with sustainability values and centering environmental justice.

Literature Study of Hindu Religious Life In The Reform Era

The rapid development of the times accompanied by the currents of globalization has caused a process of change in culture in Indonesia. One of the changes felt by the community is the change in Hindu religious life. The changes that occurred in Hindu religious life along with the development and pace of globalization caused a cultural shift. This cultural shift certainly has an influence on the pattern of Hindu life in people's lives. Cultural shifts in Hindu religious life such as dress codes, lack of participation of the younger generation in religious activities such as ngayah, furniture, mekidung and the fading of traditions that develop in society. In addition, the changes that have occurred in Hindu religious life have occurred due to the development of tourism. This is due to technological advances that make it easier for people to make Bali a cultural-based world tourist destination. Currently, the existing cultural system is packaged by keeping up with the times. The purpose of this study is to find out how the development of Hindu religious life in the revolutionary era. This research method uses a literature review approach

The Point of View of Spreading the Culture and Habits of Young People through Korean Drama Films

This article discusses the point of view of spreading the culture and habits of young people through Korean Drama films. In this case, the dissemination of culture and habits of young people through Korean drama films is very rapid so that it affects the dress code, behavior, language and several other aspects. This has a positive and negative impact on a country. As a positive thing that is raised is the increase in knowledge and insight of teenagers, the existence of a new culture that can increase youth creativity. But apart from that, there are also negative impacts for adolescents, namely the existence of a gradual shift in culture so that adolescents will forget their own culture. In addition, the standard of beauty / good looks of society will increase, causing many things that are forced by teenagers so that they can look like Korean artists.

Education's economic return in multicultural Australia: Demographic analysis

This article focuses on the impact of education as the most important human capital endowment in the context of migration, religion, gender and ethnic identity from a demographic perspective. It presents research-based evidence to address such key research questions as whether and how significantly women's education provides equal benefit in the labour market for individuals, based on their migration status, religion, and ethnic identity. The field of this study is the multi-ethnic and multicultural context of Australia with a wide range of ethnic and religious groups of migrants from throughout the world. Preliminary results show that labour market achievement is positively and significantly associated with the educational attainment of individuals, irrespective of their migration status, religious affiliation and ethnicity. However, more comprehensive analysis from comparative perspectives reveals that the positive economic return of education is higher for natives (compared with migrants), for ethnic migrants from developed regions of origin (compared with those from less developed regions of origin) and for non-Muslims (compared with Muslims). The article provides two plausible explanations for these patterns. The first refers to the lack of recognition of overseas qualifications and to the devaluation of foreign education that particularly applies to ethnic migrants from less developed regions. The second relates to disadvantage through structural discrimination against migrants, particularly when their cultural and religious identity, such as Islamic names and dress codes, are distinctively displayed. In sum, this analysis presents further research-based evidence to go beyond the human capital theory in order to explain more appropriately the economic return of women's education in the context of religion and migration from a demographic perspective.

Class performativity, modernity and the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide the Jewish urban middle classes of Egypt in Israel 1948-1967

ABSTRACT In the analysis of Israeli society and the experience of immigration and integration into it in the first decades after its establishment in 1948, an Ashkenazi-Mizrahi dichotomy became prevalent, and the explanatory efficacy of other contributing factors went mostly unnoticed. The academic, institutional and public discourses that focused on those among the Mizrahi Jews, who struggled to fit-in, perpetuated the early Ashkenazi establishment’s biases against all that was Arab and by extension Mizrahi. Exploring socio-cultural practices - such as dress codes and choice of language, of Jews arriving in Israel from Egypt during this period, this paper will examine the role of class identity and performativity (rather than ethnicity) in shaping the immigrant experience of newcomers. Relying on multiple sources including interviews, life stories and oral testimonials, it will argue that the Jews of Cairo and Alexandria shared an urban middle-class habitus with the Israeli Ashkenazi elites; and that the performative expression of this shared identity enabled them to open doors closed to many other Middle Eastern and North African groups and paved their way into the Israeli mainstream despite their Mizrahi decent.

Importance of Style and Dressing in Business World

Clothes can be used to create an identity. Clothing can also enhance the existing identity and is therefore an important part of establishing a professional status. In creative professions dress codes were minimal or did not exist. The strictest dress codes were in conservative professions such as banks. Trust could be created with professional clothing. On the other hand, people wearing casual dress were seen more approachable. Companies, who have dress codes as a part of their policy, can use it to monitor their employees. In business world looking professional is an important factor. Busy prints, bright colors and extravagant outfits draw an attention, but it does not mean that they are seen professional in the business field. Colors have different meanings and associations in different cultures, but the colors used in the business world were generally acknowledged almost everywhere. Certain items of clothing are also associated with being a professional.

DON’T TOUCH MY HAIR

AbstractThere is much research on race and schooling focused on punitive discipline, but little attention is paid to how teachers and administrators use minor policies to coerce students to “willingly” adopt hegemonic ideologies, particularly the ones that correspond to Whiteness. In this work, Whiteness is conceptualized as a social concept in which forms of knowledge, skills, and behavioral traits are cultivated for the sake of maintaining White supremacy as the dominant ideology in the social organization of structures and people. My work explores how teachers and administrators use school dress code policies, specifically the policies regarding hairstyles, to indoctrinate Black students into Whiteness. I argue that schools are sites intended to racialize Black students into White society. I argue that dress codes that regulate hairstyles are a form of White hegemony. I ground my work in Antonio Gramsci and John Gaventa’s theoretical views of hegemony to conceptualize how administrators and teachers invoke forms of domination and coercion to force Black students to transform their appearance for the sake of upholding White ideals of professionalism. I offer a critical race conceptual model that articulates how power is enacted upon Black students to further a White aesthetic. The conceptual model highlights how teachers and administrators assign racialized social meanings to different hairstyles and unconsciously or consciously reinforce the idea that Black hairstyles hinder Black students’ performance in the classroom and reduce their future employment opportunities. Contemporary examples of Black students’ experiences in school are cases that validate this model. I argue that dress code policies about hair that incur minor infractions are destructive to Black students’ sense of identity and reinforce Whiteness as the normative frame of civil society.

The Majesty and Dignity of Courts: Changes in Court Dynamics with the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India

The procedures and practices of courts were brought to a sudden halt with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. This led to the promulgation of virtual courts where previously known traditions of the courts changed in many ways. The dress code was watered down and the understanding of the majesty and dignity of courts had to be re-established. This paper documents the seismic changes that occurred in virtual courts and how the courts had to keep redefining what contempt meant in the context of virtual courts. It is argued that majesty and theatrics affect the dispensation of justice, so when it is slightly ‘lowered’ – as was during the pandemic – the seriousness of the justice process is also scrutinised. The question remains as to whether timing, manner, and presentation are still relevant in times of Covid-19. The paper begins with a theoretical explanation of the majesty and dignity of courts in the pre-pandemic era. The next two sections illustrate the theatre of the court, pre-Covid-19 and during Covid19. The following section is an ethnographic account of the redefining of majesty and dignity in virtual courts. The conclusion discusses the effect of the pandemic on the re-imagining of the spatial dynamics of courts in India.

Perception of interns regarding influence of dressing on professional performance at workplace in dentistry.

In a health-care setup, interpersonal communication plays a pivotal role in the attainment of professional outcomes. Dressing is an indirect mode of communication. Since ancient times, it is assumed that doctor's clothing have a positive effect on the minds of patients. This survey evaluates the perception of interns from dental sciences regarding the impact of dressing on professional performance at workplace. A self-designed questionnaire was distributed among a batch of interns who were willing to participate in the survey. Seventy-six interns returned the responses which were complete without any duplication. All the survey forms were scrutinized and the data were collated. Qualitative analysis of the assembled data was performed to evaluate intern's perception about the association between dressing and professional performance at workplace. Results of the survey demonstrated that 81.6% of the participants dress up to work as per their temperament. About 65.8% of the participants believed that dental professionals should choose formal wear for workplace settings. Majority of the participants, i.e., 67.1%, believed that dressing affects perception on personality traits such as dignity and character of a professional. A wide number of interns perceived that dressing alters the behavior of self, patients, and colleagues (55.3%, 71.1%, and 68.4%, respectively). The result of this survey also showed a positive correlation between dressing and professional traits such as confidence, responsibility, and efficiency (75.0%, 63.2%, and 63.2%, respectively). Notably, 55.3% opined against enforcing a dress code for dental institutions/dental offices. The result of the study represents the positive influence of dressing on professional performance at workplace in dentistry as perceived by interns from the faculty of dental sciences.

БРЕНД РОБОТОДАВЦЯ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ ХАРЧОВОЇ ПРОМИСЛОВОСТІ

The questions related to the forming of employer brand of enterprises of food industry for maintenance of business reputation and further engage and development of employees are investigated in the article. Today it is not enough material motivation for workers, additionally pulled out requirement to the development, management, certification, prosperity on international standards, participating in projects, and ratings. The construction of strong employer brand is the actual task of any enterprise in the conditions of competitive activity strengthening for highly skilled personnel is set. Key companies that work in the field of employer brand research are distinguished. The modern international and Ukrainian rating of the best employers that measure the companies’ attractiveness from the point of view of employment is analyzed. The major factors of choice by the search of company-employer, in particular stability of company at the market, financial possibility of company, its social responsible position, corporate culture and others are distinguished. Comparison of criteria of choosing employer for youth and for experience specialists is conducted. Competitive edges, practices of forming and advancements of employer brand of enterprises of food industry, are outlined on the example of companies such as Nestle, Roshen, PepsiCo Ukraine, that engage serious resources in development and support of their own HR-brands. At image forming, it is necessary to consider its constituents, as moral values, advertisement sphere, packing material, location and situation in office, personnel dress code, firm’s name, forms of firm, business cards, packages and other is offered in the article. The constituents of successful brand (image) of employer for three categories of personnel (students and graduating students, highly skilled professionals, other categories of personnel) are distinguished. On the results of the research, it is considered that employer brand is a long-term, strategic resource for the enterprises of food industry, and the search of highly skilled specialists is permanent continuous and difficult task for HR-managers of companies.

A Critique of Muḥammad Shahrūr's Views on the Qur’ān, the Ḥadīth Corpus, Sharīᶜah, and Early Islamic Scholarship

This article describes the life, education, and thoughts of Muhammad Shahrūr, whose discourse on Islam generated confusion and much in the way of polemical debate. His controversial bias favoured modernity, influenced by modern Western epistemology, traditions, and secularism. The author applies qualitative content analysis to select writings. The analysis unveils his position (s) in light of mainstream Islam and focusses on Shahrūr’s approach to Islamic religious thought via (1) theories of Non-Synonymity and Limit; (2) his view of the Ḥadīth and Sharīᶜah; (3) the status of Muslim women with regard to polygamy, dress code and feminism; (4) the law of inheritance; (5) western culture and civilization; and (6) evolution; democracy, nationalism and pluralism, etc.

Application of bayesian networks in the evaluation of projects of corporate uniform

The article reveals the problem of making a decision on the design of a corporate uniform in the context of the contradictory requirements for uniformity of clothing for employees and the needs of participants in the dress code for self-expression. The combination of the above factors creates specificity in the assessment of uniform projects, since it becomes necessary to predict the stability of the dress code policy, the acceptance of its requirements by all interested parties. To solve this problem, a method is proposed for assessing the design decisions of a uniform from the standpoint of a balanced reflection in its design of the values of corporate culture and the possibilities of personal self-identification of participants in the dress code. The article considers an example of the development and testing of a semantic map, reflecting the probabilistic relationship of design parameters, in the assessment and refinement of models-proposals of a corporate uniform. The evaluation criteria presented in the semantic map format allow reflecting both the marketing role of the uniform in the promotion of the company′s services and the actual needs of the dress code participants identified during the expert discussions.

Dress code: the digital transformation of the circular fashion supply chain

ABSTRACT The overproduction and overconsumption of textile products has led to a call for systems and behavioural change towards a circular economy. Correct material flows through a circular system are difficult to achieve, but emerging technology may provide some answers. Among these technologies, blockchain, smart tags and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are showing promising solutions. However, adopting technology gives rise to certain challenges. Observing the global trend in digital transformation, this paper investigates the adoption of blockchain and its associated technologies. Through interviews with designers and technology providers, it identifies the challenges specific to the small and medium enterprise sector. It finds a number of areas that require focus – some outside and some within the control of the business owner. These include the need for more effective communication channels between the information systems (IS) sector and fashion industry stakeholders if the digital transformation of the circular economy is to be effective.

Behind the Scene

In this article, I analyze teacher’s attire as a political phenomenon in the context of the Mari people, a Finno-Ugric minority living in Central Russia. The material for this study is based on observations and interviews made by the author during 1987‒2019 in different places of the Mari region. The Mari teacher’s dress code, a dark dress with a white collar, is usually considered self-evident, but as I argue in this article, in the Soviet Union, and in Russia at the post-socialist time, the Mari female teacher’s dress served two practices. Firstly, clothing represented position and agency of power, the socialist ideal, and later the political trend of the majority. Secondly, clothing represented traditional, everyday Mari life.

Oke-Ibadan Festival and the Ethnography of Aboke people of Ibadan

This study examines Oke-Ibadan festival and the ethnography of Aboke people of Ibadan. The objectives of the study are to document the cultural identity, fashion, family life-style, crafts, and hobbies of Aboke people; and, also, ascertain the significance of Oke-Ibadan festival to Aboke’s at home and abroad. Two sociological perspectives which include structural-functionalism and symbolic interactionism were used to provide a theoretical context for the study. The study adopts exploratory survey design which includes purposive and convenience sampling techniques. Thirty-five (35) participants were selected for the study. The instruments used in eliciting information from the participants were in-depth interview (IDI) guide and focus group discussion (FGD) guide, while the responses were gathered with the aid of electronic gadget such as the audio recorder. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, content analysis, and ethnography summary. The finding revealed that Aboke people have a unique cultural identity among other ethnic groups in Yorubaland. Their cultural identity as attested to by the participants include; hosting of Oke-Ibadan festival, retaining tribal mark, production of traditional/black soap for the cure of measles, narrating folk stories to the young generation in order to encourage high fertility rate, unique dress code, and acceptable physical appearance.