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Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 Most consumers in developing countries are looking-out to purchasing apparel goods because of economic globalization. Consumers in developing countries usually associate high product prices with high quality; as a result, they need to purchase quality ...
Fasika Chekol +3 more
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South African Journal of Economic and Management SciencesBackground: Bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) consumers’ significant discretionary purchases of non-essential products, such as apparel, contribute to retail growth.
Bianca M. van Niekerk +2 more
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Preparation of Ultrafine Disperse Dyes Based on the Efficiency Balance of Grinding and Dyeing
Journal of Chemistry, 2022 As dispersive dyes are nonionic dyes, the particle size and particle-size distribution will significantly affect the dyeing performance. In this study, the grinding conditions, the granularity of disperse dye, and the dyeing performance were combined to ...
Jingsi Qiu, Yue Liu
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Disability, Participation and Apparel throughout the Life Course
Anthropology & Aging, 2017 There are a growing number of people living with disabilities (PLWD) throughout the life course and across the disability spectrum. While much attention has been paid to environmental barriers to social participation for PLWD, apparel-related barriers ...
Jessica Dimka +2 more
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Design and Characterization of Periodically Conductive Woven Fabric
AUTEX Research Journal, 2019 In this paper, a novel kind of electromagnetic (EM) functional textiles is proposed, which show high-pass characteristics as they interact with EM waves. The periodically conductive woven fabric was designed, fabricated, and measured.
Guan Fuwang +4 more
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Store Image: Scale development Part 2
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2008 The aims of this article (the second in a three-part series) are threefold, namely to (1) develop a scale for the measurement of the perceived importance of store image dimensions , (2) purify the developed scale to illustrate acceptable reliability and (
Ronel du Preez +2 more
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Multicriteria Decision-Making in Complex Quality Evaluation of Ladies Dress Material
AUTEX Research Journal, 2020 Quality is the essence of any product for consumer satisfaction. However, different people have different perception of quality. Eventually the definition of quality varies from product to product and thus it is much more complex in textile clothing ...
Misra Srabani +2 more
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Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2018 Using unique survey data on direct supplier-multinational linkages in Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Vietnam, this paper fi rst evaluates how foreign investors differ from domestic producers in terms of their potential to ...
Deborah Winkler
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Analysis of Textile Circularity Potential
Environmental and Climate Technologies, 2023 Global annual textile consumption has doubled in the last two decades and is expected to keep increasing. Since the textile system operates primarily in a linear way, it is highly polluting and creates a lot of waste.
Valtere Megija +2 more
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Synthesis of Handcrafts and Digital Printing: Creative Sustainable Apparel Design [PDF]
, 2014 Apparel manufacturing processes are one of the most prevalent sources of environmental problems at almost every stage (Gam & Banning, 2011). Some apparel designers/manufacturers are striving to incorporate sustainable and socially responsible processes ...
Sanders, Eulanda, Zhang, Ling
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