Essays about: "Dress"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 84 essays containing the word Dress.

  1. 1. Folk Costume use portrayed in modern Swedish Museums : A study of nationalism, romanticism and bias in modern exhibitions as a consequence of a subject's history.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturvård

    Author : Klara Gracie Fridberg; [2023]
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    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate the presented usage of folk costumes in three different folk costume exhibitions and what this presented usage may be a consequence of. The essay's issues are: What usage of the folk costume is currently represented within Swedish folk costume exhibits? What implications can be found in this representation? What are the museum's opinions on the representation and its implications? The Swedish folk costume is classified as both immaterial cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish Enlightenment; Enlightenment; topographical literature; parish descriptions; Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers; travel journals; Norrland; science in practice; superstitions; slumbering riches; imperial gaze; Northern Sweden; Medelpad; Ångermanland; Åsele Lappmark;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE

  4. 3. Is the office that important? : An investigation on how companies use their office to attract stakeholders

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle

    Author : Madeleine Bille; Niclas Pilwind; [2023]
    Keywords : Signaling theory; design; employer brand; brand credibility;

    Abstract : Today, in a world after COVID-19 the office needs to have a different meaning for employees, the office has to compete with the comfort and flexibility of working from home. Therefore this thesis paper researched the topic of how the interior of an office can be used to signal different things to employees. READ MORE

  5. 4. Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century Tailoring: A Qualitative Study of Craft Knowledge

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

    Author : Therese Holmgren; [2022-07-05]
    Keywords : reconstruction; eighteenth century; dress history; craft knowledge; hand sewing;

    Abstract : This thesis researches the craft knowledge in eighteenth-century sewing through case studies and reconstructions. With the theoretical framework of experimental archaeology, craft science and object-based research, it was found that reconstructions can be a suitable method to research and document craft knowledge and skills of hand sewing. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Power of the Power Suit : How do the representations of women’s work in American Vogue reflect the changes in the female labour force participation rate from 1900 to 2020?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Mikaela Sasi; [2022]
    Keywords : Female Labour Force Participation Rate FLFP ; Fashion; Media Representation; United States; Economic History; Content Analysis; The Vogue Magazine; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The increase in female labour force participation rate can be considered as the most significant labour market trend taken place over the last 120 years in the United States. However, despite the drastic increase, women’s labour participation has stagnated since the mid-1990s. READ MORE