Men's Jacket Styles 1919–1941: An Example of Coordinated Content Analysis and Object Study

The research objective of this study was to compare characteristics of one woman’s home-sewn daywear commodity bag garments with characteristics of fashionable women’s ready-to-wear daywear garments depicted in a national magazine targeted to women of middle socioeconomic status. Characteristics of the garments were compared with characteristics of garments pictured in Good Housekeeping magazine’s ‘‘Fashion’’ sections during the same time period. Analysis showed the commodity bag garments shared similar design and fabric characteristics as styles that appeared in Good Housekeeping magazine. This finding indicates that although the commodity bag garments were primarily made for work in a rural setting, they had many of the same fashionable features as mass produced garments that could be purchased in department stores nationwide and could, therefore, be considered fashionable.

Section: Review Of Literature Interpretation Of Historic Dressmentioning

confidence: 99%

One Woman’s Commodity Bag Garments Compared to Styles in Good Housekeeping, 1949 to 1968

Banning

Kuttruff

2010

“…Researchers of textiles and clothing have used content analysis of various types of media as a means of making inferences about the culture that produced the items being analyzed. This includes research by costume historians (e.g., Campbell & Brandt, 1994;Paoletti, Beeker, & Pelletier, 1987), as well as research by those studying social and psychological aspects of dress (Lennon, 1990;Saunders, & Stead, 1986;Silverstein, Perdue, Peterson, & Kelly, 1986). Secondary analysis of data is another type of non-reactive research.…”

Section: Strategies Used To Gather Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversity of Research in Textiles, Clothing, and Human Behavior: The Relationship Between What We Know and How We Know

Lennon

Burns

2000

In any field it is important to understand how knowledge is produced and how the production of knowledge affects what is known. Put another way, how have the conclusions drawn from research in textiles, clothing, and human behavior been structured by and affected by the research questions posed, the methods used to collect data, or even the training of its scholars? In this paper we offer a matrix of dimensions as an outline for analyzing research focusing on human behavior as it is related to textiles and clothing. Five broad dimensions are suggested for use in organizing research and in providing insight as to how knowledge in this field has been produced: (a) type of strategy used, (b) time frame, (c) origin of data elicited, (d) technique of data elicitation, and (e) qualitative or quantitative treatment of data. Each dimension is discussed, examples are provided, and related limitations are presented. Given the dimensions presented, we conclude with a discussion of how knowledge is shaped by how it is produced.

“…However, Synnott states, &dquo;hair is malleable, in various ways, and therefore singularly apt to symbolize both differentiations between, and changes in, individual and group identities&dquo; (p. 381), a statement that is explored in this study. Paoletti, Beeker, and Pelletier (1987) in their study of men's jacket styles observed that historic scholarship was often interpretive but lacked a foundation of descriptive research. Descriptive research is frequently limited to extant garments or to suggested styles as presented in periodicals.…”

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confidence: 99%

Men's Head and Facial Hair in the Far West: 1873 to 1899

Pedersen

2001

The purpose of this study was to explore adopted facial and head hair styles of nineteenth century men in the far west from 1873 to 1899. A content analysis of historical photographs was completed The sample of 571 politicians was selected because legislative photographs were documented. Primary and secondary sources were analyzed to investigate factors that may have influenced the hair styles, including the question of individual or group behavior. Findings were not consistent with the literature. Differences were discerned in facial and head hair styles among the decades. During the decade known for nonconformity greater variation was found, particularly among facial hair styles. Whereas personal independence appears to have influenced hair style choices somewhat, political independence did not..