CTD 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Email, Body Modification, Boxer Shorts

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

Document Summary

Globalization: similar ways of behaving are developing around the world as a result of interconnected economic, political, and technological changes, examples: electronic mail, television, international business. World dress: similar types of body modification and supplements worn by many people in various parts of the world no matter where the dress or the people originate, example men"s dress shirts, introduced in colonization. Varies in different countries as to cut cultural authentication, style and dress combination changed. Changes in dress: permanent or temporary, zippers replacing hooks and eyes and buttons in the early 19th century, jeans as acceptable wear for women, boxer shorts as outerwear, cheung sam. Dress: we use world, ethnic, and fashionable dress to indicate our role and to meet a certain context, not separated, overlap, announce affiliation, emphasizing a particular role. Influences choices for dress: geographical location, history, cultural customs, cross-cultural studies.