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Journal of Fashion Technology -  Juniper publishers Abstract Through over four centuries women of Western world wore corsets to present their social status, sexuality and beauty. Furthermore, women wore different types of corsets, to mirror the mood of each era, from strict cone-shaped model that represented power and strenght, to the ‘‘hourglass model’’ were modesty, fragility and passivity represented the ideal female figure. Women nowadays continue wearing corsets. One model which is featured in the media is the hourglass corset shape that became the iconic corset shape. The present case study was designed to show corset making of a bespoke corset with the S shape chacarterised by a slim waist and broader bust, and hips. The basic block pattern was drafted on the German Muller pattern making system. Busk, spiral steel bones were used to shape the figure, and special attention was given to embellishment placed on the seams. Keywords:  Body measurements; Flat cor...

Journal of Fashion Technology -  Juniper publishers  Abstract The aging population is a growing reality around the world and has contributed to intensify discussions and investigations within the scientific field of several areas of knowledge. In the Design scope. the new population demand determines new consumption patterns that are characterized by the requirement for products and services which are appropriate for needs and expectation of these individuals Given this reality, the present study, through a bibliographical survey, aimed to discuss some physical aspects characteristic of aging, especially regarding hands and fingers, which can influence the handle of trimmings devices during the act of dress and undress of elderly users. It was noticed that research on the quality of interaction between elderly individuals and the different types of trimmings is essential for understanding the difficulties caused due the loss of functional movements of hands and fing...

Journal of Fashion Technology -  Juniper publishers  Introduction Textile composites have been used in various space- aerospace, ballistic and medical areas due to their high stiffness to weight ratio and damage tolerance properties. Recently, nanosphere, single wall or multiwall tubes were employed in fiber based composites by dispersing the nano in the resin using various techniques [ 1 ]. Single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) or MultiWall Carbon Nano Tubes (MWCNTs) have become an important industrial material especially in the use of advanced composites [ 2 ]. This provided a significant improvement in mode-I fracture toughness and tension-bearing [ 3 , 4 ]. The objective of this study was to develop nano stitching/nano prepreg carbon/epoxy composites and to examine the fracture toughness of those structures. Go to Materials and Methods Nanostitching/nanoprepregcarbon/epoxy preform and composite Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) carbon woven fabrics (Spinteks...

Journal of Fashion Technology -  Juniper publishers  Opinion Young consumers are considered fashion innovators because they tend to accept, adopt, and use new products more frequently than any other consumer group. Young consumers are appealing to commercial apparel marketers because their purchasing power has increased over the years and their buying behavior can influence the acceptance or rejection/avoidance of new products within a few months after they are introduced to the marketplace [ 1 ]. Apparel marketers use the concept of cool as a marketing tool to stimulate young consumers to purchase. A cool lifestyle reflects consumers' desire for novelty. As such, marketers that develop profitable new cool products fulfill consumers' tastes for novelty. In general, consumers purchase products for both hedonic and utilitarian values in shopping venues [ 2 ]. Specifically, women tend to enjoy hedonic shopping more than men, who often shop only to accomplish an instrum...

Natural Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites (NFRPCs) reflect excellent and comparable mechanical and dynamic mechanical properties than steel, aluminum and other composite materials. Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) has been one of the widely used technique among thermal analysis techniques such as Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Thermal Mechanical Analysis (TMA). This technique is useful to measure dynamic mechanical properties such as storage modulus ( E ), loss modulus ( E ) ), damping (Tan δ) and glass transition temperature ( T g ) as a function of temperature of NFRPCs and other materials. Several studies had been carried out on dynamic mechanical properties of NFRPCs. This fact motivated to summarize these studies, therefore a review on dynamic mechanical properties of NFRPCs is presented in this communication. To read more: Full text For more Open access journals please click on Juniper Publishers For m...

Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technique has been regarded as one of the most efficient and promising approaches for the functionalization of complex-shaped surfaces due to its precise and simple thickness control, excellent conformality. Additionally, mild growth conditions such as low temperature and oxygen-free characteristic of ALD made it particularly attracting for the fabrication of functional textiles. Functionalization of natural or synthetic fabrics such as cotton, silk, polyvinyl alcohol, Kevlar and even to chemical-inert Carbon Fiber (CFF) via ALD to endow them with super hydrophobicity, conductivity, antibacterial activity, UV-blocking property, anti-yellowing property, and retardancy are reviewed. Finally, the challenges and perspectives on the application of ALD in the functionalization of fabrics are proposed. To read more: Full text For more Open access journals please click on Juniper Publishers   For more articles please click on Current...

Discharge of textile wastewater into water-bodies causes serious environmental and health problems. Wastewater color remains due to the non-biodegradable nature of the dyes. However, treatment with ozone can lead to the destruction of the dye molecule, decolorizing thus the textile effluent. In this paper, treatment with ozone in a bubble column reactor resulted in rapid destruction of azo-reactive dyes, utilized primarily for dyeing cellulose fibers. Moreover, ozonation kinetics can be described as a mass-transfer-control process. Combining ozonation with a novel radio-frequency alternating electric field inductance device led to faster destruction of the azo-reactive dyes due to synergetic effects. To read more: Full text For more Open access journals please click on Juniper Publishers For more articles please click on Current Trends in Fashion Technology& Textile Engineering

We have always argued that the concept of sustainability invites us to set aside our ideological and institutional assumptions and address global problems and needs with a sense of humility. The size of the sustainability challenges- and, therefore, the potential opportunities for progress-exceed anything that has been faced in the history of mankind. Today, the major challenge is to strike a reasonable balance between usually conflicting issues. To read more: Full text For more Open access journals please click on Juniper Publishers For more articles please click on Current Trends in Fashion Technology & Textile Engineering

Natural dyes have been used since long back in various areas such as textiles, craftwork, food colouring and also as medicine. This work was based on expansion of the colour shade that can be obtained from natural dyes for use by the small scale users. The natural dye was extracted from three naturally available plants locally in Zimbabwe using the cold extraction under gravity method. An alcohol was used to extract the dye using a vacuum pump and left to dry. The extracted dye was then used to dye fabric strips using different metals as mordants. From the colour charts generated from the various dyeings it was shown that the shades can be extended for certain plants and in some cases they are not easy to expand. Application of the metal mordants at different concentrations was also found to have an effect on the hue of the dyed fabric strips. The results show that the natural dye from the Mukwa (Pterocarpus anglonesis) gave a wider range of shades as compared to th...