Sight, Sound, and Sentiment in Greek Village Dress

Welters, Linda

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“…Social dress and social dressing of a contrasting form comes in the example of a longitudinal study by Welters (2007) of traditional festival outfits from the province of Attica, Greece, during the 1980s and 1990s. In Welters' study, the sensory and sentimental elements imbued in particular dress artefacts were fore-grounded as key elements in a ritualized and spectacular act of leisure practice.…”

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The dress issue: introduction

Goodrum

2016

Annals of Leisure Research

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Section: Dress and Leisure: Embodied Practicesmentioning

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The dress issue: introduction

Goodrum

2016

Annals of Leisure Research

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“…Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions to the way people dress and how they attach value and meaning to clothing. Among the chapters, Welters [33] reported on sound as a factor; Breu [34] wrote about the role of scents and the body in Turkey; Becker [35] studied the awakening of the senses using a Moroccan Berber costume as an example; and Gott [36] analyzed the power of touching the waist beads of women in Ghana.…”

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Fabric Attractiveness Using Four Sensory Evaluators

Kodžoman,

Čok,

Podlesek

et al. 2023

Fibres &Amp; Textiles in Eastern Europe

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All senses elicit emotional responses to goods, services, and the environment. They also play an important role in the process of fashion design and its evaluation. This research is a continuation of several preliminary studies we conducted online to define three attractive and three unattractive colors, textures, smells, sounds, and tastes. In the present study, a sample of textile engineering and fashion design students and experts (N = 54) assessed four groups of 6 fabric samples (sensory evaluators) selected based on the results of the preliminary studies. Each group of fabrics was assessed in one of four sensory modalities (except taste). Two semantic differentials were used to assess each sensory modality: attractive/unattractive and boring/interesting in the case of color, insensitive/sensitive in the case of texture, disturbing/calming in the case of sound, and cheap/luxurious in the case of smell. We found that among the fabrics in six different colors, the pink fabric was the most attractive. Of the six textures presented, the knitted rib texture was found to be the most attractive to touch. The scent of lemon essential oil was perceived as the most attractive among the six scents used, and the friction sound of suede leather was perceived as the most attractive among the six friction sounds of fabrics. Cluster analysis showed that the attractiveness of scents and colors of six fabric samples was highly differentiated and (almost) each sample was perceived as unique, while the attractiveness of the texture and sound of different samples was less differentiated and the samples were divided into only two groups. This suggests that discrimination of fabric attractiveness may be better in some sensory evaluators/modalities than in others. The results of this study will be useful for further research on the integration of different sensory modalities in fabric perception and garment preferences.

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Sensible Dress: the Sight, Sound, Smell and Touch of Late Ertebølle Mesolithic Cloth Types

Harris¹

2014

CAJ

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the sight, sound, smell and touch of different clothtypes in the Late Ertebølle of southern Scandinavia and to argue that such an approach provides stimulating new insights into an area of material culture that has previously been studied by archaeologists in a highly empirical manner. The archaeological evidence drawn together in this paper points to this as a time when furs and skin products were of prime importance and plant fibres were the basis for knotted nets, looped cloth and basketry. In the archaeological literature these cloth-types are usually treated separately and described according to the species of raw materials, such as pine marten fur, or the technology of their production, such as couched button hole stitch. Using an experiment where participants are asked to handle modern cloth-types and answer structured questionnaires, it is possible to create a sensory description of these cloth-types. These descriptive results are then used to reconsider aspects of cloth and clothing in the Late Ertebølle of southern Scandinavia. By moving from the standard technological description to a sensory description, the Mesolithic cloth types investigated in this paper are placed within a sensory and phenomenological theoretical framework. The presentation of these results seeks to provide a new description of these materials and allow archaeologists to revaluate theculturally embedded nature of cloth and clothing at that time.

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Sight, Sound, and Sentiment in Greek Village Dress

Cited by 4 publications

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The dress issue: introduction

The dress issue: introduction

Fabric Attractiveness Using Four Sensory Evaluators

Sensible Dress: the Sight, Sound, Smell and Touch of Late Ertebølle Mesolithic Cloth Types

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