<p>The process to <em>knowing</em> entails perpetual curiosity as well wearied surrender in which one’s understandings transform. This philosophy describes the approach that our team took research, interpret and exhibit patients’ narratives of open-heart surgery “The 7,024th Patient” project – an arts-informed, narrative study resulted installation is 1,739 square feet area over 9 height. With intention physically emotionally engage viewers, stories were aesthetically...

The process to knowing entails perpetual curiosity as well wearied surrender in which one’s understandings transform. This philosophy describes the approach that our team took research, interpret and exhibit patients’ narratives of open-heart surgery “The 7,024th Patient” project – an arts-informed, narrative study resulted installation is 1,739 square feet area over 9 height. With intention physically emotionally engage viewers, stories were aesthetically translated into poetry photography...

<p>[para. 1]: "Despite the French connotations of its title, first Vogue was an inherently American cultural phenomenon. It began in New York 1892 as social gazette for a Eurocentric elite and became more professional self-confidently patriotic publication under directorship Condé Nast, who purchased it 1909. Although has always maintained aloofness women's publication, this article links magazine with geographical conditions production. The carefully negotiated urban demographic...

<p>This article traces the origins of mannequin and challenges gender assumptions it has been cloaked in. In nineteenth-century Paris, fashion became a key technology in construction normative bodies, principal “actor” shaping current clothing cultures, literally embodied debates over creativity commodification. It locates advent live male models bespoke tailoring practices 1820s, several decades before female model appeared on scene. ties to larger shifts mass-production,...

<p>What do your shoes say about you?<br> Shoes are now much more than just things to walk in. From kids on the block models catwalk, we use them signal how fashionable are. But, beyond style, this most intimate object communicates . our sexual desires, aesthetic sense, social status and personality. And, before they became supreme objects of desire, had a history.</p> <p>From ancient times present, have cultural as well practical purpose. Within these pages is pretty...

<p>Arts-informed dissemination of health care research is an emerging field scholarship. Our team chose to use the arts as a means disseminate findings from study about patients’ experiences open-heart surgery and recovery. We transformed stories, gathered through interviews journal writings, into poetry photographic imagery displayed this within 1,739 ft2 art installation titled “The 7,024th Patient.” intention was method that could convey sentiments perspectives patients. To evaluate...

Arts-informed dissemination of health care research is an emerging field scholarship. Our team chose to use the arts as a means disseminate findings from study about patients’ experiences open-heart surgery and recovery. We transformed stories, gathered through interviews journal writings, into poetry photographic imagery displayed this within 1,739 ft 2 art installation titled “The 7,024th Patient.” intention was method that could convey sentiments perspectives patients. To evaluate novel...

<p>Other creatures grow their clothing on individual bodies; scales, or bristles, fur feathers—they have but one suit, self-replenished. They may clean it perhaps, cannot change it—save … the chameleon. The human animal shows in its as conspicuously many other ways, peculiar power of extra-physical expression.</p>

Lipstick is known to contain lead, and this has been a general area of concern. Methods quantifying lead in lipstick currently require the use rather harsh digestion procedures given that specimens are high their lipid content many refractory materials. A simple method performing analysis based on total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (TXRF) presented here. Samples were prepared by melting along with non-ionic surfactant an yttrium internal standard followed homogenization. Solid...

There is a delightful feeling when you are well mounted, that those who casting admiring glances at your horse, will find dress and “get-up” just as perfect in their way. — Mrs. Alice Hayes, The Horsewoman, 1893 At no time the beauties of female form divine displayed with such witching grace, faultless flowing lines so attractively posed, tout ensemble thoroughly patrician. But if there be one blot fair picture, charm once vanishes. E. Kerr, Riding for Ladies, 1895 T HE VICTORIAN SIDESADDLE...

(2006). Vogue's New World: American Fashionability and the Politics of Style. Fashion Theory: Vol. 10, No. 1-2, pp. 13-38.

<p>The clothes we wear every day keep us comfortable, protect from the elements, and express our unique style--but could fashion also be fatal? As it turns out, history is full of fashions that have harmed or even killed people. From silhouette-cinching corsets combustible combs to lethal hair dyes flammable flannel, this nonfiction book looks back at times people suffered pain, injury, worse, all in name style. Historical examples like tragic "Radium Girl" watchmakers mercury-poisoned...

As skilled ‘detectives’, dress historians are experts in closely reading surviving artefacts and using them to glean evidence of the lives those who made wore them. With shoes footwear, this rich, object-based approach can yield new information that challenges established histories. This article turns traditional object analysis on its head by interrogating instead impressions traces objects leave behind, taking a forensic footwear. It examines rise scientific policing history footprints as...

This article traces the origins of mannequin and challenges gender assumptions it has been cloaked in. In nineteenth-century Paris, fashion became a key technology in construction normative bodies, principal “actor” shaping current clothing cultures, literally embodied debates over creativity commodification. It locates advent live male models bespoke tailoring practices 1820s, several decades before female model appeared on scene. ties to larger shifts mass-production, standardization,...

> three vanishing scars Forcefully remind me of my mortality what if heart … chest how would I Bodily markings, sensations and feelings vulnerability following surgery often permeate patients' thoughts. It is during the home period

Fire was one of the most terrifying dangers for women and children in nineteenth century. Many burned to death highly inflammable clothing. A new, sylph-like Romantic feminine ideal dress arose tandem with gas lighting that illuminated light white cottons almost "immaterial" materials became fashionable during Neoclassical period. These textiles included machine-woven gauze, tulle, tarlatane, they put working-class ballet dancers pirouetting near footlamps at particular risk. French prima...

<p>[from para. 1]: "Le 20 novembre 1861, Matilda Scheurer, une fabricante de fleurs artificielles âgée 19 ans, décède d’empoisonnement « accidentel ». La jeune femme autrefois belle » et en bonne santé, travaillait pour M. Bergeron, au centre Londres, avec centaine d’autres employés. Elle époussetait des feuilles couvertes d’une poudre verte attrayante qu’elle inhalait à chaque inspiration dont elle absorbait les traces souillant ses mains repas. teinte brillante ce pigment vert,...

<p><em><strong>Fashion Studies</strong></em><strong> is a new voice in our field.</strong></p> <p>It will be published annually by Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Fashion & Systemic Change and an open access, academic journal fashion studies, available to all at no cost readers or authors. We join the movement of scholars who wish push back against exploitative corporate publishing monopoly that profits from publicly...