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62 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,686 Fashion and Cultural Textiles papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations were made: - Take your time to plan and prepare for the - interior decoration. Select a successful colour palette, Use, and combine the right colours that are your colour scheme that goes with your interior and get textiles with excellent colour fastness. - Get textiles with very high tensile strength, flame-resistance and high have good resistance to seam slipping and yarn distortion, avoid using textiles near heat or fire and avoid staining the textiles. Placing, proper handling, and Proper application or use of textiles materials. - Use the right equipment to maintain the textiles and get quality and long-lasting products for your interiors and decoration. - Making sure the design is balanced by adding contrasting elements and create a focal point. - Trying to alter the repeat type and ensuring you create a seamless repeat pattern of design. - - Add in areas of texture, a sense of depth to the designs and Think about the size of your motifs - Consider both the positive and negative space of your design.

    Sustainable Approaches to improving Textile Design Aesthetics in Home Décor in Ondo West Local Government · 2026 · DOI

  • The limitations of this work have been consistent funding, physical space, and the time capacity allotted to the project by team members, technology advanced beyond our knowledge, and a lack of prior literature or formal training in these areas dealing with the specific concerns of our collection. Some challenges have been overcome and outlined in the findings, and some are yet to be explored further.

    Moving Threads: The Post-Custodial Archive Model Preserving Syrian Clothing Heritage · 2026 · DOI

  • The Syrian collection represents private archives and the international language around dress for more exhaustive research and development. For the data we have, goals include naming the images, standardizing all of our data that has been entered quickly or before we developed standards, selecting a best-of image for thumbnails, and potentially conducting one more professional photoshoot to capture a few complete ensembles. We then intend to write and, hopefully, secure grants to build a publicly searchable site using the archival open-source software, Omeka, and possibly aim for DOI minting of the database content as a different form of scholarship than our articles and conference presentations. We will also work with the family website to update it, so it has numeric IDs, captions, and images using metadata. We are working toward the coffee table book production and will have a corresponding small exhibit when it is released. Though our project currently involves a single family, there is potential for it to evolve into a larger data set of more cases with other Syrian collectors in DC or the U.S. at large. This has been postponed thus far due to a lack of funding and time/labor constraints. Also, there are discussions regarding the collection's future as family members pass away, move away, or generally lose time or interest in its preservation. Therefore, the data has been saved in the cloud to keep it active, in progress, and non-proprietary, which takes some of the pressure off the family for maintenance. The collaboration increases the chance of sustainability for the content availability for others. The case study will continue to be tied to other scholars and practitioners in dress collections via ongoing joint publications continuing to explore new research questions. Dr. Sklar is also working as part of a national society on open-access educational resources (OER) modules to teach this method to others, including students, colleagues, and the public using this collection and their home institution, similar to the VRA/SEI certificate but explicitly aimed toward those who work with dress collections. Those lessons will include the post-custodial process and critical cataloguing.

    Moving Threads: The Post-Custodial Archive Model Preserving Syrian Clothing Heritage · 2026 · DOI

  • Key limitations included the small sample size, which limits generalizability, and difficulties accessing participants due to time constraints, privacy concerns, and industry gatekeeping. The reliance on self-reported data may also introduce subjectivity. Despite these challenges, the qualitative approach provided a rich, context-sensitive exploration of issues affecting smart textile adoption in South African workwear.

    Integrating smart textiles into workwear: Enhancing safety, functionality, and aesthetic appeal for modern labour environments in South Africa · 2026 · DOI

  • To address the lack of standardized metadata in the historic dress and costume field and increase the searchability and discoverability of online fashion collections, a university collection adopted Costume Core, a metadata schema with controlled vocabulary for fashion artifacts, to develop the digital collection and to assess and improve the usability of the schema.

    Digitizing Metadata of a University Fashion Collection’s Holdings Using OCR and Costume Core · 2024 · DOI

  • This lack of agreement, which includes the amount of cuts, the feasibility and usefulness of such cuts, and the relative sharing of cuts across various states, is complicated by the fact that large developing countries, such as China, Brazil, and India, also hold different opinions towards climate change regimes (see Vidal et al.

    A ‘Uniform’ for All States? · 2023 · DOI

  • More cost-effective and arguably greener, the sale of secondhand clothing is expected to be double the volume of fast fashion by 2030 but it remains an understudied field of research in the literature relating to the fashion industry.

    Resale as sustainable social innovation: understanding shifts in consumer decision-making and shopping orientations for high-end secondhand clothing · 2023 · DOI

  • This article, which is an example of traditional costume dress and embroidery art and is intended to carry these works to the present and to pass them on to next generations, is important because of shedding light on artists interested in this field, creation of written and visual resources and the fact that this technique has not been investigated and used so far.

    KONYA MÜZELERİNDE BULUNAN KADIN CEPKENLERİNDEKİ KORDON TUTTURMA ÖRNEKLERİ · 2020 · DOI

  • The paper's approach is limited to a narrow field by analyzing the adaptation of architectural forms in fashion design in an obviously abstract way with a strict departure from the traditional concept of clothing with the use of innovative materials such as smart textiles in a modified form of presentation through performance and standard way of design that finds its inspiration in architecture in segments.

    Fashion and textiles inspired by architecture: Use of new materials · 2020 · DOI

  • This investigation, from the perspective of a costume researcher and designer, not only argues for the potential of costume to communicate political meaning through its aesthetic choices but also reveals the versatility embedded in this under-researched area of everyday garments as costume within contemporary dance performance.

    Political by Design: Costume Design Strategies within the Finnish Contemporary Dance Productions AmazinGRace, Noir? and The Earth Song · 2018 · DOI

  • It is the dissection of these tensions that underpin this article, for while Sherman’s work has been the subject of academic debate across a forty year period, her use and critique of the ‘fashionable ‘ image has not been examined alongside an exploration of the expanding activities of the fashion industry itself; nor have her recent images of ageing women been examined within this more general context.

    Cindy Sherman in a New Millennium: Fashion, Feminism, Art and Ageing · 2018 · DOI

  • Jansen’s key informants in the fashion industry provide interesting insights into an understudied trade in Moroccan scholarship, but does their experience provide insight into urban elites? Secularists? Upwardly mobile middle-class Moroccans? In addition, despite Jansen’s claim that in her interviews “Islam as a cultural heritage plays a more significant role .

    <i>Moroccan Fashion: Design, Culture, and Tradition</i> by M. Angela Jansen · 2016 · DOI

  • Although the population of women participating in golfing is tremendous, a needs assessment, especially for mature female golfers who are 55 and older, has not been explored by many researchers.

    Prototype development of golf wear for mature women · 2013 · DOI

  • This paper fills a gap in the literature by comparing materialistic values between genders and fashion consumer groups in an individualistic culture (US) and a collectivistic culture (Korea).

    Materialism, fashion consumers and gender: a cross‐cultural study · 2010 · DOI

  • Abstract Setting out from the assumption that South African fashion designers and their garments are noteworthy, yet underexplored, agents of socio-cultural change in post-1994 South Africa, this article will show that despite being untapped, the field of fashion and its propagators is firmly interwoven into the social and economic fabric of post-apartheid South Africa.

    Africanising hybridity? Toward an Afropolitan aesthetic in contemporary South African fashion design · 2010 · DOI

  • (3) Rather than dismissing the cultural significance of dress as a possible site of opposition then, the point I was making in the statement quoted by Brabazon was that, in the postmodern era where the cult of appearance has become ubiquitous, there is now a real danger of losing sight of the fact that changing one's image is insufficient in itself as a means of bringing about social change.

    A Cheap Shot at Frocks? a Reply to Tara Brabazon · 1997

  • There is an early and little known work by a Hungarian analyst—Aurel Kolani— entitled PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND SOCIOLOGY, but it is not too lucid and deals with politics rather than sociology.

    The Psychology of Clothes · 1933 · DOI

  • This finding suggests that value-based preferences alone are insufficient to drive behavioral change in the fashion market (Colasante et al.

    Slow fashion development opportunities in Lithuania · 2026 · DOI

  • a deeper understanding of fashion as a cultural, communicational, and socio-economic phenomenon and encourages further research on creative industries in the semi-periphery within the context of globalization.

    Fashion, Digital Communication and Social Context: Croatian Brands between Instagram and the Global System · 2026 · DOI

  • Future work will explore hierarchical codebook structures and compositional code analysis to bridge individual primi- tives to higher-level cultural semantics. Future work will explore multi-scale codebook architectures and spatially-adaptive fusion mech- anisms to address these limitations.

    DO-GAN: disentangled orthogonal generative adversarial network for style extraction and regeneration of modern Chinese traditional costumes · 2026 · DOI

  • Our findings indicate that the transition to sustainable fashion remains uncertain, not only due to the industry’s profit-driven nature but also because of a broader cultural mindset that promotes overconsumption and a throwaway mentality.

    Fast Fashion as a Reflection of Risk Society and the Culture of Unsustainability: Insights from Youth in Croatia · 2025 · DOI

  • In recognizing the symbolic potential of the body, fashion photography is a logical but critically underexplored area for the study of militarism in popular culture.

    Make love not war: imperial democracy and the gendered soldiered body in fashion · 2024 · DOI

  • This study delves into the intricate interplay between fashion and deviance, focusing on Ghana, West Africa to address the gap in understanding how clothing choices can serve as symbolic conduits for deviant behavior in Ghana.

    The Role of Fashion in Crime Symbolism in Ghana, West Africa · 2024 · DOI

  • The general cultural significance of the practices of preserving the heritage of material and artistic cultures and their representations synthesises traditional and innovative approaches to reconstruction, conservation and perception of costume, while remaining poorly studied.

    Clothing displayed in museums: from conservation to innovative design representations · 2022 · DOI

  • Abstract Previous research illustrates several attempts that consumers have made to create new markets when marketing organizations have not responded to their desires; however, individual efforts alone are insufficient to assure success in having voices heard.

    Fashion, consumer markets, and democratization · 2022 · DOI

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