Fashion Accessories Research Articles

The Influence of William Hogarth on Later Generations

The Influence of William Hogarth on Later Generations

Leather Businesses in Bengaluru-A Post pandemic Study

Leather goods such as footwear, bags belts and other accessories are in big demand among today’s population the craze for fashionable leather goods and accessories has only increased day by day.In Bangalore every shopping area has its stock of leather goods from handmade footwear to bags, jerkins, waistcoat belts and purses.This is one of the main businesses which involves mostly unskilled and semi skilled leather artisans.This leather craft making is mostly unorganized.The are many outlets in (retail) in Bangalore and to understand if this craft actually provided employment and income generation for the rural artisans were the often asked question. The study area chosen was Majestic and Avenue Streetin Bangalore. The sample size was 200 and 24 leather retail outlets were selected for simple random sampling.The research gap intends to explore whether these leather ancillary or primary manufacturing and retail outlets are actually employing jobless youth from the deprived classes and if so are they employed in the manufacturing primary units orlooking after sales in the retail leather units?What is the scope for the growth projection of the leather businesses in Karnataka given the major scarcities of labor and raw hides?The research methodology used was both primary and secondary data. The data collected data was analyzed using percentage method. The findings have indicated that all theretail outlets have employed majority youth from socially depressed classes with rural background with some of the collected samples being handicapped. Their earnings were100 Rs to Rs.200 rupees per day. In this leather business it has been noticed that the demand for raw hides has outstripped the supply though there is a huge demand for leather made handbag shoes footwear most of the time it is being seen due to the fast fluctuating markets and loss of buildings used for tanning and dyeing leather this industry has slowly started diminishing.never returnedThe leather industry has incurred huge losses especially in Bangalore as tough laws and the repeated incurrence of losses contributed in driving theworkers out of work and post pandemic since June 2022 they were there seen to be struggling with loss of work and loss of sustenance as Bangalore tanneries employed a huge migrant workforce who travelled back to their native statesduring the pandemic. The main law which gave a deathblow to leather businesses and tannery and tanning industries was the Karnataka Anti cow-Slaughter Legislation June2020.

Malay Traditional Jewellery: The Innovation of Pending as Contemporary Fashion Accessories in Malaysia

Pending is part of traditional jewellery, often used to complement Malay clothing. Aristocratic people usually wear this pending on the waist on special occasions and gatherings, such as weddings and cultural events. Since Pending is no longer as popular as it once was, this study suggests improving and innovating existing functions. New mechanisms have shown viable replacements for traditional features. This study aims to resurrect the Pending into a modern multi-function buckle as a contemporary fashion accessory in Malaysia. Qualitative research involving observation and description analysis is applied using a formal analysis approach. This research helps to preserve Malaysia’s culture and become a reference point for academics, designers, goldsmiths, historians, and other related professions in art, culture, and heritage of traditional jewellery.

Textile bio-based and bioactive coatings using vegetal waste and by-products

This work aimed to fulfil one of the great consumer trends related to ethically and environmentally sustainable attitudes. The main concept was to develop an alternative material to natural and synthetic leather by creating new bio-coated textile structures with improved environmental credentials, and to use vegetable wastes and by-products from agroforestry industries, as well as biopolymers. Different residues, such as sawdust and pine bark were successfully incorporated in polymeric aqueous formulations and applied as textile coatings. The Life Cycle Assessment of these new textile products showed that they present a lower environmental impact in comparison to natural leather used for clothing and shoe applications. Overall, the alternative material developed here is a favourable sustainable material. The use of by-products to create bio-based materials comprises a great potential for a broad spectrum of applications in other fields in the Textile and Clothing Industry such as fashion, eco-design, sports and protection apparel, furniture decoration, home textiles, footwear, fashion accessories, in addition to others.

Low-cost Chinese goods in Tanzania: the rise of transnational trade routes’ peripheral branches

This article illustrates how rural margins and urban-rural relations in southwest Tanzania join up with transnational trade routes for Chinese goods. It examines the trade of low-cost imported goods from China (plastic sandals, cheap jewellery, various fashion accessories, cheap clothing, etc.) that are widely spread in Tanzania, up into the peripheral countryside. By examining the concept of trade routes, the article contributes to the literature on urban-rural relations in African Studies and ‘inconspicuous globalisation’ by proposing a contrary perspective, where rural areas viewed as areas of consumption of imported products. It then rescales the globalization analysis by situating urban-rural relations at the heart of local and global interconnections. The article demonstrates that geographically peripheral places and actors have a capacity to influence the direction of the global trade route as they combine complementarities between the urban-rural continuum and topological continuity of networks from local to global. The global trade geography is profoundly influenced by what goes on in its inconspicuous tentacles in upcountry regions, such as the Uporoto Mountains, where the global trade route relies on the dynamism of local agriculture, which is increasingly merging with other livelihoods. This is exemplified by the complementarities between trade and agriculture in terms of livelihood, circulation of capital, urban-rural mobility, and links to global scales, which highlight the de-agrarianization process and the development of a mass consumption society.

FOTO IKLAN SEBAGAI MEDIA PROMOSI PADA INSTAGRAM "AH LURIK"

UMKM named "AH Lurik" is one of the lurik businesses located in Klaten City which has existed since 1959, has developed with a number of fashion products and accessories. The lack of promotion causes many young people, especially in terms of the products offered, therefore it is necessary to have visuals that are used to make young people interested in these products. Promotion is one means to boost sales, because promotions can attract the attention of consumers to buy. Promotion can be done by uploading photos through Instagram online media, the purpose of making this work is to make commercial photos as promotional media for "AH Lurik". The methods used include exploration, improvisation, and formation. In the exploration stage, they search for data, while improvisation performs experiments such as lighting, color selection, and objects, then in the formation of the work, they turn sketches into photographs. The basic form of work creation is a product variant, which is produced by “AH Lurik”, and is implemented through the social media platform Instagram. Thus, the results of commercial photography can attract the attention of consumers, especially young people to buy and preserve the lurik culture in Indonesia.

Implementation of Industrial Traceability Systems: A Case Study of a Luxury Metal Pieces Manufacturing Company

Technological advances have shown an accentuated growth trend, which is directly proportional to the quality of life in today’s society. As a result, the business market is becoming increasingly competitive and customers are becoming more demanding, forcing companies to look for new tools and adopt new work methodologies to improve their flexibility, effectiveness and efficiency, ensuring a better response to market needs. In this context, the tools for tracking objects, totally or partially automatic, are considered essential technologies to all kinds of analysis and the treatment of business data, providing several benefits to companies, including waste reduction, identification of bottlenecks, cost reduction, improvement of product quality and the entire flow of business information. A case study of an industrial company specializing in machining, polishing and galvanoplasty of metallic alloys, small size pieces to be incorporated in luxury fashion accessories, is presented. Derived from the difficulties underlying the implementation of a traceability system supported by identification technologies and obtaining data in an automatic way, the focus of the study is based on the identification of a base model, with sequential steps, which allows any industrial company to adapt these types of technological tools and systems. Based on the pillars of knowledge acquired through a bibliographic review on the subject, as well as on the recognition of the whole production flow, this work makes use of an implementation model already developed, studied and tested, supported by a project viability analysis measuring the benefits obtained with the results found after the respective implementation. Production performance increased with the implementation of a traceability system, as the time worked throughout the flow decreased. Production performance prior to implementation was around 98.6%. Applying a Kaizen (continuous improvement) strategy and based on the times collected in the pilot test, this indicator rose by 0.5%, obtaining a production performance of 99.1%, corresponding to an annual increase of 99 pieces. The integration of a robust and simple traceability system supported by automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) technologies in this industrial environment allowed for automated data collection and processing. In addition to the financial and productive benefits, this Industry 4.0 implementation encompasses a huge medium- to long-term impact in functional and monitoring terms, providing enormous aid to the management of production flows.

NIVA: business expansion dilemma

Learning outcomes The purpose of this case is to expose readers to the dilemma of expanding domestically or internationally and simultaneously taking key decisions while expanding the business to the international markets. It could be a foundational case for understanding international expansion and growth strategies. After the case analysis, students would be able to: • understand the potential of the domestic market and the factors affecting the international expansion; • evaluate the various methods to enter an international market; • identify the challenges of expanding a business into emerging markets such as India; • analyze the various growth and expansion strategies in an emerging market such as India; and • assess the online promotion strategies in an emerging market. Case overview/synopsis NIVA, The Satin Collection, is a manufacturer and distributor of a luxury collection of silk and satin products. Founded in 2020, NIVA is based in Dubai with more than 1,000 customers. The products include silk bedding, silk sleepwear, fashion accessories and reusable satin masks, and they are made-to-order, custom-made and tailored locally in Dubai. Currently, all the operations are run and managed by the company’s founder, Purva. The only operation which is outsourced is the stitching process. The company is completely operating online and is currently promoting products only through social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. Purva is planning to expand her business. The two options are extending her existing operations in the UAE and expanding to other emerging markets, starting with India. Purva needs to decide on a suitable internationalization strategy to decide whether it is the right decision to enter the Indian market, including an entry and promotion strategy in her target market. In addition, she needs to decide whether to continue with NIVA’s current business model in India. There might also be additional possible challenges for NIVA in entering the Indian market. Complexity academic level Postgraduate MBA students, other graduate-level management programs and undergraduate-level students. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 5: International Business.

Kawaii Affective Assemblages

Kawaii Affective Assemblages

Marketing Masks and Makeup in Mollie Panter-Downes’s “Letter from London”

Abstract Over the span of almost fifty years the British author Mollie Panter-Downes contributed 852 pieces to the New Yorker; this included 153 London Letters during World War II alone. In these Panter-Downes reported on the “everyday” aspects of the British home front experience, including fashion accessories such as the gas-mask case and lipstick. This essay argues that Panter-Downes’s inclusion of these wartime commodities served two purposes. First, she shows how fashion was part of the “total war” culture in Britain, where war equipment (like the gas mask) was sold to British women, but also how a domestic purchase (like lipstick) became a weapon of war. The second and purposely camouflaged result of Panter-Downes’s descriptions of wartime capitalism was to market the war to New Yorker readers to garner American sympathy for, and support of, Britain’s ongoing struggle.

Pengembangan Sistem Aplikasi Barbershop Berbasis Android Untuk Menumbuh Kembangkan Usaha Barbershop

The development of communication and information technology is one of the developments that can be felt in everyday life. The development of smartphones or smartphones and the internet is one of the real evidences. Another development that has felt its impact is the development of fashion. Nowadays fashion is no longer synonymous with women, but also for men. Not only fashion clothes or accessories, but also hair fashion. More and more hairstyles are becoming more and more confusing for consumers to choose the type of hairstyle they want. Many men also do not know the details obtained from other people about the new hairstyle. Therefore, the development of this Barbershop application can also help choose the desired hairstyle and can assist application users in making their choice. In addition, the application can determine the location of the nearest or best Barbershop for its users. Based on the conclusions of the results of this study, the application of barbershop services at Barbershops is useful for facilitating information problems and ordering barber services without customers having to come to the Barbershop and being able to create a good system that can facilitate employee performance at the Barbershop itself

Collaborative Consumption: A Study of Sustainability Presentation in Fashion Rental Platforms

Despite the increased research into the business potential and environmental impact of fashion renting, no previous research has studied the sustainable presentation of fashion (apparel, textiles, shoe, accessory, or jewelry) rental company platforms, which is the purpose of this study. The triple bottom line framework and content analysis methods were used to identify themes in their communications. An open coding method was applied to develop first-level concepts and sub-categories, followed by a calculation of the frequency of the aspects addressed on each website. A total of 56 active fashion rental businesses in the U.S. were identified and analyzed. A total of 11 main themes and 27 sub-themes emerged. The companies with the overall most mentioned sub-themes were REI and The Lauren Look by Ralph Lauren. The results indicate that sustainability information on company websites needs to be more organized for clear presentation and easy access to the public. Many companies can make simple adjustments such as educating consumers on the sustainable nature of their business model and providing data-related evidence for determining the social and environmental impacts. Companies must also provide more detailed information on COVID-19 cleaning/sanitizing practices to reduce the perceived risk while promoting consumers’ willingness to try fashion rental services.

Pickets, Protests and Purses in the American Civil Rights Movement

AbstractAt first glance, perhaps nothing seems more mundane and apolitical than a purse. But purses have always been much more than a fashion accessory. This article analyses how southern Black women – both the legendary and the lesser known – in the ‘classical’ phase of the Civil Rights Movement used purses to appear as respectable ladies' when their dress and comportment were under close surveillance. Yet they simultaneously used their purses as private, female‐controlled spaces that aided them in achieving a wide variety of social, economic and political objectives. In fact, many southern Black women used their purses to hide critical items needed to prepare themselves and protect their bodies as they voted, sat‐in, rode on public transportation and integrated schools. Using oral histories, memoirs, newspaper and magazine stories and photographs, this article argues that Black southern female activists used purses primarily as ‘toolkits’. In the process, it reveals that Black southern women's participation in the armed self‐defence movement is far more significant than scholars have appreciated.

EKSPLORASI MATERIAL INSPIRASI GAYA ART NOUVEAU BERTEMU DENGAN IKON INDONESIA DENGAN METODE ATUMICS

History is very essential in design process because to create progress. It requires an understanding of what has already been accomplished. This paper is a learning outcome of history of product design courses in product design of Pelita Harapan University. Art Nouveau is a style that aimed to introduce new art during the 1880s post-industrial revolution in Paris. With its obsession with novelty, Art Nouveau incorporates elements from a variety of cultures, including Japan, Moorish art, nature, and numerous material explorations. Emile Galle, one of the Art Nouveau figures in Paris. He explored and invented numerous new glass techniques such as wheel cutting, acid etching (frosted glass), and glass casing layering. The journal uses of ATUMICS, a method for deriving structured inspiration from artifacts that incorporate technique, utility, material, icon, concept, and shape. The novelty of this journal stems from the combination of two artifacts: the cameo glass technique and an Indonesian icon, the national monument and the rafflesia Arnoldi flower, where the interaction of the two resulted in product design works in fashion accessories. This process demonstrates that the elements that play important role when two artefacts are interacting using the ATUMICS method are technique, relational icon, and concept. Whereas the reciprocal relationship between artifacts on a symbolic level inspires each other in all three dimensions.

Conceptualizing the stylistic body movements in contemporary Ghanaian dances as performance art form

This paper attempts to conceptualize the stylistic body movements in contemporary Ghanaian dances through the aesthetic lenses of performance art. The expressiveness of performance art forms is frequently praised for the emotions we have toward them. These feelings are derived from the symbolic connotations and functionalities of the arts in life. Through an exploratory design of qualitative inquiry, the researchers focus on a contextual dialogue on the aesthetic visual presentations of selected contemporary Ghanaian dances as performance art forms. The critical content analysis of music videos was espoused to examine the stylistic body movements and gestures coded in some contemporary Ghanaian dances such as Azonto, Twerking, Kupe, Pilolo and Shoo as part of an empirical artistic study. Instruments for data collection were observation, document analysis and photography for the contextual visual content analyses grounded in semiotic and aesthetic theoretical discourse. This study again relied heavily on secondary data from recorded communication including music videos, books, transcripts, websites, newspaper articles, journal articles and the like to make objective inferences. The findings indicate that dance is the communication that occurs via the conduit of the dancer's body that ruptures individuals' independent existence and generates a sense of finitude. Whereas some of the dances make aggressively erotic visual statements, others are mere expressive gestural and body movements to simply entertain a targeted audience. The result further shows that, the contemporary Ghanaian dance performances transcend beyond mere entertainment but rather are an embodiment of body language emerging from the indigenous dance symbolisms. Teaching learners to perceive visual aesthetic qualities and symbolic interpretations in dance performances will deepen the appreciation of Ghanaian dance performances not just as entertainment but as another medium for expression to transmit their inherent messages. It is suggested that, these dance forms should be formalized as indigenous knowledge in a quest to blend tradition with modernity in our creative endeavours. This knowledge should be propagated through creative arts education in Ghanaian schools. Other performance art components displayed in contemporary Ghanaian dances including body painting, facial expressions, costumology and fashion accessories present another lacuna for further research by future researchers. Key words: aesthetics, dance, therapy, performance art, body, movement

Typology and Fashion Usage Trends of Ankara in the Twenty-First Century South-Western Nigeria

Usage of Ankara in the twenty-first century south-western Nigeria is dynamic with continual paradigm shifts. But despite its ephemeral nature and the lack of organized museum preservation for the fabric, there has not been scholarly attention to its typology and manners of usage in the fashion of south-western Nigeria. This paper therefore studied Ankara in fashion context of between 1964 and 2018 in south-western Nigeria with the aim of producing a generic typology of the fabrics and determining the trends of its usage. The study was descriptive while qualitative method was used to analyze the data. Samples of Ankara styles and archival images collected from sellers, users and key informants are typologically and stylistically appraised. The study provided typologies based on material and styles. Findings indicated Ankara is used singly or combined with other materials as dresses and fashion accessories, with regional color preferences, in fashion statements reflective of the user’s social standing in trends that interestingly combined Nigerian with Western or Euro-American fashion elements.

Augmented Reality Try-On Watch Application

Augmented reality is a growing trend in marketing and sales strategies in recent times. Augmented reality ads are immersive, meaning that marketers help build a specific emotional connection with customers. Unlike images or banners, for example, AR ads are interactive and lifelong users can see and interact with them. These days people prefer online shopping over traditional window shopping and augmented reality brands allow them to provide unique experiences with the convenience of allowing customers to tap their mobile devices. So, the main goal of creating the "AR Watch Tri-On Application" is to develop an Android application to try out different watches in a virtual manner using a mobile that supports the AR camera. The application can be used on online watch shopping websites and on applications such as Titan, Fastrack, Sonata, etc. This application eliminates the human effort of physically visiting watch shops which is a very time-consuming activity. The user can try many watches and different types of watches. Among the ongoing opportunities, augmented reality (AR) is widely accepted as the new game changer for big tech companies. The idea of augmented reality is much older than creating gaming experiences like Pokémon Go. It is used to improve customer experience and provide excellent solutions for easy detection of manufacturing defects. Throughout this paper, we will evaluate whether AR can be used for online shopping for fashion accessories and its future range. According to several studies conducted, approximately 20% -40% of garments sold through online fashion retailers are returned by consumers. Of this percentage, 60% - 70% is due to product return size issues. The main reason for this inefficiency is the wrong size ordered by the customer - many times by mistake. Because of this, the extra shipping cost for items returned by the retailer can lead to huge money loss and customer dissatisfaction.

PEMANFAATAN SOSIAL MEDIA DALAM INDUSTRI KREATIF RUMAH TANGGA SAAT PANDEMI COVID 19

Currently, Social Media is the leading platform in conducting social activities and buying and selling, especially in this limitation of space due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Government strongly advises all Indonesian citizens to stay away from crowds and try to stay at home. This Global Crisis also has an impact on the high unemployment rate caused by many factors due to the impact of the Covid 19 Pandemic. Of course, every human being tries to survive and find solutions in order to continue to live life, especially in supporting family welfare. Women are social beings who have the ability to multitask by selling food and drinks, crafting and being a fashion designer as a form of economic support in the family. This food and beverage sale is one of the creative industry activities in micro, small and medium enterprises, through integrated marketing communications activities on digital platforms. This study uses a qualitative method by conducting online interviews with three women in the Surabaya City National Craft. In this research it was found that the large role of social media in marketing the food and beverage and fashion accessories business into a creative industry business that is quite easy to apply and supports the household economy.

Combining the traditional craft of twined flower making with stone

Twined flower making has been a handicraft practiced by women since the Qing Dynasty (1885–94) in which wires, papers and silk threads are the main materials used by entwining the materials together in various combinations into the forms of flowers. However, the rise of plastic flowers in the 1970s, the evolution of lifestyle and weakened folk traditions has led to the gradual decline of twined flower craft. The craft of twined flower making has not been taught in a systematic fashion and thus is more difficult to pass onto new generations. The research aims to bring the art of twined flower into daily life to continue the future of this craft. The eastern region of Taiwan has an abundance of stone resources. The conception of the project is to unite the contrasting materials of twined paper flowers and to augment the scope of the craft. Traditionally twined flower handicraft has been applied mostly as an ornament or fashion accessory for women. The project extends the craft to the context of stationery by combining features found in traditional Chinese painting to produce a modern object.

“Reptiles are Here for Good”1

Reptile skins have been sought-after materials for fashionable accessories for the last two centuries at least. This article traces the trend from its historical roots to the present day, with a special focus on the 1920s and 1930s, when “exotic leather” was in particularly high demand for ladies’ shoes, bags, belts etc. Dependent on technical innovations and economic conditions, the development of “reptile fashion” was determined by complex cultural phenomena where orientalism played a significant part. The perception of the material, often connoted as “strange” or “different”, was deeply ambivalent: it oscillated between attraction and rejection, between allure and disgust, between seduction and indignation. Accessories made from the skins of snakes, crocodiles, lizards and other exotic species have been imbued with the ambivalence that surrounded the living animals — an ambivalence shaped by ancient mythology and superstition. On the one hand they are appealing, tempting and attractive, on the other they are repulsive, offensive or even menacing. Aesthetics, ethics and symbolics all combine in shaping our perceptions of these animals and their skins — then just as now. Today’s discussions on the topic seem very much dominated by contemporary ethical considerations centered on the question of cruelty to animals, environmental destruction and ideological as well as economic colonialism. These aspects however were already present in earlier considerations. Despite long standing debates and criticisms the enduring fascination for reptile skins and their associated exoticism, rarity and sensuality still exists today as we can see in contemporary fashion shows.By means of a material culture approach — using images, written sources and extant objects — the article sketches several interdependent layers of perception within the field of aesthetics and ethics. Touching on current issues of sustainability, animal well-being and colonialism, the article highlights subjects such as orientalism, exotism and gender constructions within the realm of fashion history.