CTD 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Street Fashion, Body Modification, Club Kids

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Clothing, Textiles and Interior Design
• Course: CTD 446
• Professor: Dr.Thompson

Document Summary

Ways people dress their bodies, modify and supplement. Training to create items for body modification and supplements. Aesthetics: associated with 5 senses, associated with pleasurable feeling or emotion that arises with stimulation of 5 senses. To assess beauty: use senses to register, react personally to it, make sense of it within cultural context. Examples from different subcultures: appearance and dress in the us society have changed over time, examples (there are more than one): Western style, zoot suiters, bikers, teddy boys, surfers, mods, psychedelics, hippies, punk, funk, skinheads, greasers, skaters, goths, grunge, cyberpunks, club kids. Universals in the art of dress: enhancement of self, level of enthusiasm differs by individual, exists in all scales (small/large/global) of culture. Example: australian aborigines decorated bodies with paint, scars, emu down even though they did not produce protective clothing for desert night conditions. Structure of body: posture and movement, aesthetic evaluation based on total effect of supplements and modifications to body.