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Clothing and Aesthetics: Perception of Form
Author(s) -
DeLong Marilyn Revell
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x7700500401
Subject(s) - clothing , perception , orientation (vector space) , costume design , psychology , observer (physics) , aesthetics , body shape , art , visual arts , mathematics , computer science , geometry , artificial intelligence , history , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
Prior to and after 40 hours of visual exposure to, and discussion of, a wide range of costume body forms, 51 subjects were asked to respond to eight costume body forms varying in visual effect. Both pre‐ and post‐responses included a description of each costume body form and a selection of the slides liked best and least. Descriptions were compared as to: (1) orientation of the observer to the whole form and (2) the morphologic‐axiologic orientation. A majority of viewers increased in morphologic orientation and there was an increase in responses to the whole costume body form. A chi square test gave support to the hypothesis that viewers could separate their like or dislike of a costume body form from their descriptive consideration of that costume body form.