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A Collaboration to Teach Students to Utilize Historic Dress as Inspiration for Apparel Design
Author(s) -
Gam Hae Jin,
Banning Jennifer
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1552-3934.2012.02128.x
Subject(s) - clothing , creativity , fashion design , mathematics education , psychology , visual arts , engineering , art , history , social psychology , archaeology
Historic dress is often used by apparel designers as a source of inspiration for new designs. However, using historic information as a source of inspiration in designing has been taught separately in apparel design (AD) and fashion history (FH) courses. To help students expand their creativity in AD, two university instructors decided to collaborate on a project linking historic dress and AD. The instructors prepared and presented teaching materials and assessed related projects for the required courses in A pparel D esign and F ashion H istory. To assess students’ learning and satisfaction, the instructors developed prequestionnaires and postquestionnaires based on Lamb and Kallal ([Lamb, J. M., 1992]) F unctional, E xpressive and A esthetic ( FEA ) A pparel D esign F ramework. Responses to the prequestionnaire showed that students lacked awareness and information about using historic dress as inspiration. Responses from the postquestionnaires revealed that students looked at historic garment details, colors, and silhouettes and interpreted them in a modern way. Students said that additional benefits were that the exposure to historic dress increased their creativity, helped them understand FH, and helped them connect their course work in F ashion H istory and A pparel D esign.