Speedo innovation: Swimwear companies have invested millions designing high-performance suits for the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Can design help swimmers finish faster? Following the 2004 Athens Olympics‚ officials at swimwear giant Speedo had good reason to celebrate: Athletes clad in their latest suits at the time‚ called Fastskin FSII‚ won 46 medals in the pool. Yet when the company ’s in-house design team‚ Aqualab‚ gathered soon after the games at company headquarters in Nottingham‚ Britain
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SILK CREPE DE CHINE is a silk‚ wool‚ or polyester fabric of a gauzy texture‚ having a peculiar crisp or crimpy appearance. (The word crape is also used as an Anglicized spelling of Crêpe.) Silk crape is woven of hard spun silk yarn in the gum or natural condition. There are two distinct varieties of the textile: soft‚ Canton‚ or Oriental crape‚ and hard or crisped crape. Thin crêpe is called crêpe de Chine ("Chinese crêpe"). La CREPE DE CHINE è una‚ lana seta‚ tessuto di poliestere o di una texture
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MATERIAL CULTURE CAMPUS FASHION – CLOTHING: A CASE STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE FEMALE STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BY ARCH 306 – ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY IN WEST AFRICA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF GHANA LEGON CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1. BACKGROUND STATEMENT 2. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 3. HYPOTHESIS 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 3. METHODOLOGY 1. STUDY AREA 2. POPULATION AND SAMPLE 3. INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION
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doc SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROJECT REPORT ON WORKFLOW OF MERCHANDISING IN AN APPAREL EXPORT HOUSE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Life of human beings is full of interactions. No one is self-sufficient by himself whenever anyone is doing some serious and important work a lot of help from the people concerned is needed & one less specially obliged towards them. I cannot forget acknowledging them in few words as without the guidance & co-ordination of them my
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2. Chapter Two - Description Description1 is like a painting where time stands still. Often a writer’s pen (or a computer!) can be stronger than an artist’s painting brush. While a painting in a museum appeals to one sense – sight - skillful descriptive writing can appeal to all 5 senses - sight‚ smell‚ sound‚ taste and touch. Narrative or story telling is closely tied to description. An effective narrative brings description to life. The things described begin to move about and interact in narrative
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USE AND ABUSE OF COMPUTERS IN THE WORKPLACE by Bob Gregg Boardman & Clark LLP One South Pinckney Street‚ 4th Floor P. O. Box 927 Madison‚ WI 53701-0927 Telephone (608) 283-1751 rgregg@boardmanclark.com Our major form of workplace communication is becoming electronic. People do not have faceto-face‚ oral conversations. Email is taking over. It is fast‚ efficient—and dangerous. Employees just rip off an email with far less thought or editing than a letter. The e-system has replaced the break room
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1. INTRODUCTION Textile have much as important bearing on daily lives that everyone needs from earliest times‚ people have used textiles of various types for covering‚ warmth. Personal adornment and even to display personal wealth. Today textiles are still used for these purposes and everyone is an ultimate consumer. It begins in agriculture with fibre production of cotton‚ flax and other fibrous plants. These fibres are process into yarns and fabrics. The yarns are made into fabrics for industrial
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ORGANIZATIONAL CLOTHING AND INDIVIDUAL EQUIPMENT (OCIE) GUIDE PHOTO CIF NOMENCLATURE LIN COMMONLY CALLED CHARACTERSITICS BODY ARMOR FRAG A92145 FRAG VEST‚ FLAK VEST BAG BARRACKS B13907 BARRACKS BAG‚ LAUNDRY BAG OD COTTON BAG‚ STRING CLOSURE BAG DUFFEL B14729 DUFFEL BAG NYLON BAG W/ GROMMET CLOSURE‚ SHOULDER STRAPS BAG CLTHING WTRPROOF B15825 WATER PROOF BAG RUBBERIZED NYLON BAG‚ STRING CLOSURE UNIVERSAL (ACU) CAMOUFLAUGE. INCLUDES THE BASE
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In J. Powell and T. Gilbert (eds) Aging and Identity: A Postmodern Dialogue‚ New York: Nova Science Publishers‚ 2009 Clothing‚ Identity and the Embodiment of Age Julia Twigg1 Identity and dress are intimately linked. Clothes display‚ express and shape identity‚ imbuing it with a directly material reality. They thus offer a useful lens through which to explore the possibly changing ways in which older identities are constituted in modern culture. In this chapter I will address three sets of
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Pop Culture Ethics: With Great Power Comes…Great Responsibility? Clement A Barnes III Abstract Comic books are a staple of American culture‚ a long standing series of colorful glimpses into the human imagination. For nearly a century‚ artists‚ writers‚ and the like have documented a universe of vibrant heroes‚ dastardly villains‚ futuristic technology‚ and moral dilemmas. The truth is‚ comic books are a pastel pastiche of philosophical and ethical debate. They are pulpy pages of philosophical
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