Clothing Style Research Articles

Ergonomic assessment of office worker postures using 3D automated joint angle assessment

Sedentary activity and static postures are associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and worker discomfort. Ergonomic evaluation for office workers is commonly performed by experts using tools such as the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA), but there is limited evidence suggesting sustained compliance with expert’s recommendations. Assessing postural shifts across a day and identifying poor postures would benefit from automation by means of real-time, continuous feedback. Automated postural assessment methods exist; however, they are usually based on ideal conditions that may restrict users’ postures, clothing, and hair styles, or may require unobstructed views of the participants. Using a Microsoft Kinect camera and open-source computer vision algorithms, we propose an automated ergonomic assessment algorithm to monitor office worker postures, the 3D Automated Joint Angle Assessment, 3D-AJA. The validity of the 3D-AJA was tested by comparing algorithm-calculated joint angles to the angles obtained from manual goniometry and the Kinect Software Development Kit (SDK) for 20 participants in an office space. The results of the assessment show that the 3D-AJA has mean absolute errors ranging from 5.6° ± 5.1° to 8.5° ± 8.1° for shoulder flexion, shoulder abduction, and elbow flexion relative to joint angle measurements from goniometry. Additionally, the 3D-AJA showed relatively good performance on the classification of RULA score A using a Random Forest model (micro averages F1-score = 0.759, G-mean = 0.811), even at high levels of occlusion on the subjects’ lower limbs. The results of the study provide a basis for the development of a full-body ergonomic assessment for office workers, which can support personalized behavior change and help office workers to adjust their postures, thus reducing their risks of WMSDs.

Personalized Smart Clothing Design Based on Multimodal Visual Data Detection.

In the traditional clothing customization system, only the designer participates in the clothing design, and the style is single. In the face of numerous styles, the user just repeatedly arranges and combines the styles, but does not realize the user's innovative design. In this paper, we propose a novel multitask deep convolutional neural network training method for task-by-task transfer learning, and learn deep image features for image retrieval tasks on noisy user click data. Image retrieval model based on image-text multimodal correlation features: this paper uses image-text multimodal correlation features to calculate the correlation between query keywords and images, and calculates the correlation between images and images. In this paper, the method of automatic generation of clothing style is researched, and parameterized coding is designed for it. Taking the typical style of suits as the initial population, through the human-computer interaction interface, the scoring value is assigned to the fitness value to carry out the evolution process. The binary string of the suit style generated by the genetic algorithm is decoded through the decoding algorithm and rules, decoded into a visual style diagram of the style of the suit style, and the style diagram of the suit style is automatically drawn. From the perspective of clothing design, this paper summarizes the general design methods of outdoor sports smart clothing, follows the integration of people-clothing-environment, and proposes a wearer-centered design concept to deeply explore the rationality of outdoor sports smart clothing design methods. This paper further solves the key problems in the design process, and takes the fashion of clothing as the core principle to design the structure of clothing modeling. The fabric selection of suits is based on the principle of clothing comfort. The key is to realize the outdoor sports monitoring function of suits through sensing technology. The design uses Arduino as an electronic prototype platform, so as to detect the heart rate of the human body during exercise and the microclimate temperature under the clothes. This kind of suit with monitoring function is ultimately a combination of sensing device and clothing. It not only has monitoring function, but also has the aesthetic concept of clothing design and conforms to the performance of human body structure, which will provide reference and reference for the design of outdoor sports smart clothing.

Clothing Visual Representation for 3D Human Reconstruction

To address the problem of fuzzy representation of clothing visual information in three-dimensional human reconstruction, a multi-stage based optimization method is proposed. Firstly, semantic features, shading features and high-frequency features are extracted from input images in preprocess. Secondly, the signed distance field is constructed based on the local depth features to implicitly represent the shape of clothed human. Then, to optimize the signed distance field and generate the rough three-dimensional human model, the dress hierarchy module is constructed, and the clothing semantic context is perceived by defining the dress hierarchy loss function. Finally, combining the shading features and high-frequency features to capture the details of wrinkles in the UV space, and an accurate three-dimensional human model is generated. The experimental results on BUFF dataset show that the normal <italic>L</italic>₂ error and the chamfer distance error are 0.13 and 1.30 respectively, which reduce by 13% and 2%. The proposed method can improve the accuracy of three-dimensional human reconstruction, which generates three-dimensional human model with clothing style, dress hierarchy and wrinkles.

When West Meets East: Towards an Educative Journey in Nineteenth-Century Western Children’s Fashion

Despite their abilities to talk, manipulate, and desire, children are socially immature (Quentel, 1997). Therefore, children’s education consisted of bringing them into history through a constant interdependence with adults and interaction with their material environment. Fashion, as a style, shaped social identities and created a sense of historical belonging. Being dressed in the style of a certain location, time, and environment diminished particularities between individuals to dress them according to their social role and rank (Balut, 2014). However, through the nineteenth century, sailor suits, hussar overalls and bohemian dresses were the norms of a playful, nostalgic and always specific children’s fashion. As illustrated through these examples, a fascination for Eastern European silhouettes and embellishments inspired unexpected styles for wealthy Western children. Far from playing dress-up, children in these outfits seemed to travel across Europe thanks to their clothing styles and experimented with alternative dress codes to possibly acquire alterity. How did adults play with children’s fashion to educate children in the concepts of space, time, and place as a way to define their social belonging? How did children use this interaction with their clothing not only to build their identity but also to feed their appetite for story-telling and therefore divert the educator’s and maker’s initial intention? Based on the study of nineteenth century European museum collections (garments, department store catalogues, and fashion and children’s magazines), this article analyzes the rationale behind the Eastern European trend in children’s nineteenth century fashion and the way this exotic fashion journey evidenced the specificities of an aspect of children’s material culture dedicated to the education and socialization of the child.

Conditions influencing conservation of students’ ethno-cultural competency in the polyethnic environment of the university

The article discusses the aim of polyethnic education to form students' sensitivity to cultural differences.The aim of the study is to identify, define and justify the pedagogical possibilities of ethno-cultural education of students in a multiethnic educational environment. As a consequence of understanding cultural differences, the student must first understand their own culture, and only then other cultures.&nbsp;The peculiarity of the tested course is that the conditions are considered not only localization, as the preservation of an ethnos, but also the geographical environment from which the formation of an ethnos began, as a direct condition for the emergence of an ethnos and culture.&nbsp; Because the climate affects the style of clothing and housing, modes of transport. Geographical conditions also affect the weapons of work and life; climate affects customs and rituals. Language plays an important role in the formation of each culture, a common language supports the cohesion of an ethnic group. Culture, customs and historical memory are mediated in the language. Within the framework of historical culture, ethnic self-cognition&nbsp;and historical memory are formed. Every culture strives to preserve its world through a system of traditions. And thus, the specificity and diversity of ethnic cultures of students are determined by a variety of factors. It is established that the dynamics of intercultural contact will depend on the quality of relationships (communication) between representatives of different cultures. The research uses methods of analysis of scientific literature, experimental work. A curriculum for the development of ethno-cultural competence of students was developed, which was tested at the Gumilyov Eurasian National University&nbsp;and&nbsp;Toraighyrov&nbsp;University. 159 students took part in the experiment Keywords: ethnos, ethnic culture, ethnic self-awareness, ethnic identification, identity, student.

Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of ‘being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop.

&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; When building a global brand of any kind—a political actor, clothing style, or belief system— developing widespread awareness is a primary goal. Short of knowing any of the stories or products of a brand, being talked about in whatever fashion—raw fame—is, as Oscar Wilde would have it, better than not being talked about at all. Here, we measure, examine, and contrast the day-to-day raw fame dynamics on Twitter for US Presidents and major US Presidential candidates from 2008 to 2020: Barack Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. We assign “lexical fame” to be the number and (Zipfian) rank of the (lowercased) mentions made for each individual across all languages. We show that all five political figures have at some point reached extraordinary volume levels of what we define to be “lexical ultrafame”: An overall rank of approximately 300 or less which is largely the realm of function words and demarcated by the highly stable rank of ‘god’. By this measure, ‘trump’ has become enduringly ultrafamous, from the 2016 election on. We use typical ranks for country names and function words as standards to improve perception of scale. We quantify relative fame rates and find that in the eight weeks leading up the 2008 and 2012 elections, ‘obama’ held a 1000:757 volume ratio over ‘mccain’ and 1000:892 over ‘romney’, well short of the 1000:544 and 1000:504 volumes favoring ‘trump’ over ‘hillary’ and ‘biden’ in the 8 weeks leading up to the 2016 and 2020 elections. Finally, we track how only one other entity has more sustained ultrafame than ‘trump’ on Twitter: The K-pop (Korean pop) band BTS. We chart the dramatic rise of BTS, finding their Twitter handle ‘@bts twt’ has been able to compete with ‘a’ and ‘the’, reaching a rank of three at the day scale and a rank of one at the quarter-hour scale. Our findings for BTS more generally point to K-pop’s growing economic, social, and political power.&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D;

Globalization and its impact on contemporary Arab media

The phenomenon of globalization emerged during the nineties of the twentieth century. It became one of the most widely used terms and occupied a leading position in the seminars and conferences. It effected various areas of life, its effects appeared in all its sectors especially in politics, economy, culture and the media. There are several factors which have combined to contribute to its consolidation and spread in the world. The first and foremost is communicative technological progress and influence of the media at the global level. The media has contributed immensely to the marketing of the phenomenon of globalization and the consolidation of its values ​​and goals, which are summarized in the melting of the world in one crucible, one style in food, clothing, customs and traditions, the abolition of international barriers to impose the global capitalist system, the creation of a modern feudal system through the penetration of multinational companies around the world and the influence of international organizations, legislation of the law of the jungle “Might is Right”, enrichment of the rich and making the poor poorer. This research article talks about the impact of globalization on contemporary Arab media, and discusses whether it is responsible for a social change that has not been seen in previous centuries? Did it cause cultural and linguistic homogenization at the global level? What are its advantages and shortcomings? What is the best way to deal with media globalization?

NATIONAL CLOTHING AS A HISTORICAL AND SPIRITUAL EVENT

Today, the role and significance of clothing design and its features in the development of our youth as fully mature and versatile people, in the formation of their spiritual and cultural worldview, and also in a sense influencing their moral education, are incomparable. The article is aimed at instilling a clothing culture of modern youth, i.e. boys and girls, at a time when they are rapidly immersed in the world of fashion. In addition, the specific features, mental influence and the importance of design and style of clothing in the moral and complex education of young people, the positive or negative influence of national and modern clothing on the worldview and norms of human behavior, as well as the use of experience are revealed. problems are highlighted.

Automatic fabric pattern recognition and design based on deep learning and portable device

With the development of e‐commerce, online shopping has become the main approach to buy clothes, in which accurately classifying clothing through images becomes more and more important. However, most of clothing classification works focus on clothing types. With the increasing volume of online clothing transactions, various platforms have accumulated a large number of unmarked clothing images that cannot be fully utilized. Meanwhile, many consumers pay more attention to the clothing style. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a clothing style recognition framework based on Alex Net run on a portable device. The proposed clothing style recognition is evaluated on Deepfashion dataset. The experimental results show that the proposed clothing style recognition is superior to traditional convolutional neural network (CNN), ResNet and Bilinear convolutional neural network (Bilinear‐CNN).

Who Uses Virtual Wardrobes? Investigating the Role of Consumer Traits in the Intention to Adopt Virtual Wardrobes

Over-consumption by consumers is a significant challenge to sustainability. Technology, such as that of virtual wardrobes, can suggest options that may reduce excessive consumption. A virtual wardrobe is a service that allows users to create and manage their wardrobes digitally. It also helps users to realize what they have in their wardrobes and can recommend appropriate styles of clothing for the users based on an analysis of the wardrobe. From the perspective of consumer characteristics, this research investigates what motivates consumers to adopt and use virtual wardrobes and proposes marketing strategies for addressing these behaviors. Fishbein’s attitude theory was used as a theoretical framework. By surveying 265 U.S. college students and using structural equation modeling analysis, the study shows that consumers’ socially responsible consumption behavior and personal innovativeness in information technology positively affect their attitude toward virtual wardrobes, which, in turn, increases their intention to use virtual wardrobes. However, their personal shopping value and fashion involvement have no significant impacts on consumers’ attitudes toward virtual wardrobes. The findings indicate that marketers of virtual wardrobes should highlight social responsibility and technological innovation in product and service promotions. By gaining insight into their wardrobes, consumers can be more strategic about clothing consumption, use, and disposal.

Vitamin D deficiency in Bangladesh: A review of prevalence, causes and recommendations for mitigation.

Vitamin D is essential for the maintenance of calcium homeostasis and bone mineralization. Overt deficiency of vitamin D causes rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. Vitamin D deficiency is an important public health problem worldwide. This review examines the available published data from all peer-reviewed original research articles of community and hospital-based research carried out on vitamin D status in different population groups in Bangladesh. Baseline data of intervention trials are also included. The available selected articles were in English and retrieved from 2002 to January 2022. The paper concentrates on underlying factors for increased prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in Bangladesh. Studies uniformly report very high prevalences of hypovitaminosis D among different population groups. Age and sex-specific comparisons indicate that prevalence is higher for the elderly and women. Hypovitaminosis D ranged from 21 to 75 % for infants, children, and adolescents, 38 to 100 percent for premenopausal women, 66 to 94.2 % for pregnant women, 6 to 91.3 % for adult men and 82 to 95.8 % for postmenopausal women. Important underlying factors related to this silent epidemic include dark skin colour, homebound and sedentariness, insufficient sunlight exposure, atmospheric pollution, clothing style, obesity, use of sunscreen and no supplementation. A comprehensive strategy to alleviate and control the health consequences of vitamin D deficiency is needed. This would include the creation of public awareness, refrain in sunscreen usage, exposure to sunlight, regular exercise, food fortification, and supplementation with vitamin D (bearing in mind potential differences between them and food-based sources).

Teaching culture in foreign language classes

Contemporary globalized world requires teaching culture of the nation, language of which is studied in foreign language classes. This issue is especially urgent in modern Ukrainian schools. It is believed that in order to develop students’ sociocultural competence national culture should be studied in foreign language classes. In particular, students must be aware of the differences between their native culture, the culture of the studied language, other cultures, besides acquire basic skills for overcoming sociocultural diversities. In determining the key methods for teaching culture it is advisable to make the distinction between the notions “big culture” and “little culture”. “Big culture” includes literature, classical music, architecture, historical figures, geography, core values, views or beliefs, norms of the society, etc., while “little culture” involves people’s everyday thinking and behaviour, customs, preferences, tastes, gestures, use of space, clothing styles, food, hobbies, etc. The study of culture in foreign language classes is ensured by involvement of students in educational activities with application of modern teaching methods, including the use of modern technologies. The school curriculum for teaching a foreign language should include audio and video material based on literature, music, cinema, visual arts, as well as textbooks with texts and tasks dealing with culture. This approach to teaching a foreign language enriches the students’ cultural outlook and contributes to the understanding of the diversity of modern world. Studying a foreign language using authentic material is crucial for the development of students’ communication skills and enables them to understand the customs and way of life of the country of the studies language.

Self-Supervised 3D Representation Learning of Dressed Humans From Social Media Videos.

A key challenge of learning a visual representation for the 3D high fidelity geometry of dressed humans lies in the limited availability of the ground truth data (e.g., 3D scanned models), which results in the performance degradation of 3D human reconstruction when applying to real-world imagery. We address this challenge by leveraging a new data resource: a number of social media dance videos that span diverse appearance, clothing styles, performances, and identities. Each video depicts dynamic movements of the body and clothes of a single person while lacking the 3D ground truth geometry. To learn a visual representation from these videos, we present a new self-supervised learning method to use the local transformation that warps the predicted local geometry of the person from an image to that of another image at a different time instant. This allows self-supervision by enforcing a temporal coherence over the predictions. In addition, we jointly learn the depths along with the surface normals that are highly responsive to local texture, wrinkle, and shade by maximizing their geometric consistency. Our method is end-to-end trainable, resulting in high fidelity depth estimation that predicts fine geometry faithful to the input real image. We further provide a theoretical bound of self-supervised learning via an uncertainty analysis that characterizes the performance of the self-supervised learning without training. We demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art human depth estimation and human shape recovery approaches on both real and rendered images.

The Art of Character Setting in Social Media

The traditional character setting refers to the image given to a character in a story. It takes in character shape, body proportion, clothing style, eye color and facial expressions, and includes aesthetic appearance and personality characteristics. With the development and popularity of social media, people play various roles in the online world. The character setting discussed in this paper is a "social role" in network.Character setting culture began to have a widespread radiation effect.

Імідж-дизайн особистості педагога як елемент педагогічного дизайну

In the conditions of modernization of education, the search for modern resources is intensified. It will contribute to the arrangement of an effective educational process and a comfortable educational environment. Such resources include a variety of tools, among which pedagogical design occupies an important place. In research, pedagogical design (instructional design) is interpreted as a systematic approach to the construction of the educational process, taking into account the theoretical principles of psychology, pedagogy, ergonomics, cognitive science and other sciences that study the peculiarities of human perception and cognition. As a holistic process, pedagogical design involves the analysis of educational needs, development of learning environment and teaching aids that are pedagogical efficiency, methodological adequacy and feasibility. An important component of pedagogical design is the image design of the teacher's personality. Its content is most fully revealed through the personal and professional image of the teacher, and its external manifestations are the appearance of a person and his visual image. With the help of visual image, a person demonstrates to the environment his physical and social condition, shows attitude to his own body and health, emphasizes individual style and aesthetic taste in clothing and more. The visual image of the teacher is characterized by the following features: visual attractiveness; communicative attractiveness; aesthetics and ethics of behavior. In our understanding, the image design of the teacher's personality is a process and result of designing and improving his professional appearance, which is a consequence of modern fashion, individual preferences and financial capabilities. It is implemented through the generally accepted requirements for the professional appearance of teachers. The image design of the teacher’s personality is constantly changing under the influence of fashion trends, the practical manifestation of which are the means of external expression (clothing, shoes, hair, hats, accessories, etc.). After all, the spectacular appearance of a teacher directly depends on the design of his clothes, it has a positive effect on students, and the teacher himself acts as a standard of attitude to himself, to students, to professional activities. Therefore, the image design of the teacher's personality is an effective tool of self-presentation and an effective means of his professional activity. Key words: teacher’s personality, pedagogical design, personality image-design, visual image, appearance, clothing design

Islamophobia as a Phenotypical Racism: The Case of the Islamic Style of Clothing in Turkey

There are many more debates about Islamophobia’s racist dispositions in a Muslim-majority society, but the way these dispositions are exercised would be better studied if the fundamental causes were addressed first. Any form of racism can be defined as premeditated acts of degradation, humiliation, and hatred that occur in the context of everyday or regular actions. In previous centuries, racism was limited to phenotypic characteristics such as skin color, hair color, and eye color, but in today’s age of image, phenotypes have been transformed into body extensions such as clothing, resulting in a new type of “racial bias” directed at those who appear to be different from the rest of society. Turkey stands out above many other Muslim countries in terms of culture, traditions, and history, as one of the few superpowers to have ruled over a vast territory without being colonized at any point in its history. The transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic, the social fabric was forced to transform into a new pattern. By showing, representing, and projecting Islam as a specter of reactionary forces, it was alleged it may be eradicated from people’s daily lives. Islam was labelled a public enemy, along with anything that reminded people of it; women were singled out for their outer clothing standards. The self-proclaimed emancipators were able to save and free women from their oppressors by portraying them as meek and backward. Some people in Muslim-majority nations may be treated differently solely because of their phenotypical physical distinctions, which could be termed racism and eventually lead to Islamophobia.

Innovative Research on Denim Elements in Modern Fashion Clothing

Centering on the artistic characteristics analysis of denim elements in modern fashion clothing, this paper studies and interprets denim clothing through the popular characteristics and performance of denim elements in modern clothing, analyzes the design modes of denim clothing and the future trend of clothing style from the point of the view of clothing aesthetics, and integrates modern denim elements into modern fashion clothing, thus provides a new way of thinking for denim clothing design and its development direction.

Numerical Investigation of the Air Gap Distribution of Jackets with Different Fits and its Influence on Human Temperature

The air gaps underneath clothing have a great influence on the thermal regulation of the human body. The distribution of the air gaps depends on the shape of the human body as well as on clothing style, fit, and deformation properties. This paper reports on the influence of clothing fit on thermophysiological parameters of the human body through thermal simulation. Four different fits of jacket and a test person were considered for the investigation and for simulation purposes. The results of the simulation concluded that different thermal regulations of the human body were exhibited for different fits of the jacket, which is due to distinct air gaps between the human body and clothing for each fit of the jacket. This research work presents a fast method to predict the influence of clothing fit on thermal comfort, which is usually studied by a time-consuming, laborious method – the wear trial.

The Study on the Style and Value of Stone Buddha Statue of Hoeamsa Temple in Yangju

This study focus on the characteristics and of the Fragment of Stone Buddha of Hoeamsa Temple(檜巖寺). As is well known, this temple had been developed rebuilding by supporting of the royal family from the late of Korea Dynasty to the early of Joseon Dynasty(朝鮮). The Hoeamsa Temple Site in Yangju(陽州) is believed to have been destroyed in a fire in the late 16th century, and various artifacts have been excavated after several excavations since 1999. This Temple has been excavated a variety of Fragment of Stone Buddha statues. The Buddha statue of Hoeamsa Temple in Yangju has a hole on top of high usnisa(肉髻), and special folds in the left arm and a thick clothing style. It was reflects the sculptural Joseon style modified by the Tibet-Chinese style. This style is very similar to that of Buddha statues produced in the 15th century, supported by the royal family of Joseon. In particular, these statues were believed to have been produced around the first half of the 15th century when the temple was heavily fortified with the support of Prince Hyo-ryeong(孝寧大君). It is also interesting to note that these statues show the sculptural features of the early Joseon Dynasty, reflecting the Tibetan-Chinese sculptures style, compared to those of the Buddhist sculptures in the first half of the 15th century during the year of Yeongrak (1403~1424) and Seondeok (1426~1435), the kings of the Ming Dynasty. This reflects the development of Buddhist sculptures in the early Joseon Dynasty in line with the trend of Buddhist art in East Asia.

К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ЭТНИЧЕСКОЙ ПРИНАДЛЕЖНОСТИ ОДЕЖДЫ ИЗ ЗАХОРОНЕНИЯ В УСТЬЕ Р. СУРАХ (ОЛЕНЁКСКИЙ РАЙОН ЯКУТИИ)

The publication is devoted to the material culture of the Western Evenki on the example of clothing found in burial in the mouth of river Surakh in the Oleneksky district of Yakutia. The research is based on a comparative analysis of the characteristics of the museum exhibit with the ethnographic traditions of the Evenki and related ethnicities of the Tungus-Manchu group. The key features of the clothing are the composition and style of clothing, the style of ornamentation, the type and colour of the materials. As a result of the analysis, the author concludes that the characteristics of the clothing from the Surakh burial consistent with the ethnographic traditions of the local group of Western Evenki who historically lived in the Olenek basin.