Apparel product development is an important stage in the life cycle of a product. Shortening this stage will help to reduce the costs of a garment. The aim of this study is to examine the production parameters in knitwear apparel companies by defining the unit costs, and developing a software to calculate the unit costs of garments and make the cost estimates. In this study, with the help of a ...

This article extends research linking shopping behaviour to music as an environmental stimulus. Spanning across five sports apparel stores shoppers in a real retail experience reported their perception of time spent inside the store, overall hearing/aural rating on ten point bi polar scale and actual store was noted down. Also level familiarity asked 5 tempo each analyzed. Results show that has...

We introduce a complete pipeline for recognizing and classifying people’s clothing in natural scenes. This has several interesting applications, including e-commerce, event and activity recognition, online advertising, etc. The stages of the pipeline combine a number of state-of-the-art building blocks such as upper body detectors, various feature channels and visual attributes. The core of our...

Based on the theoretical frameworks of cognitive dissonance theory, regulatory focus and compensatory consumer behavior model, we proposed tested a conceptual model delineating relationships between COVID-19-stress, commitment to environment, intentions for sustainable apparel consumption in terms purchasing divesting (e.g., handing down or donating apparel). Conducting an online survey (n = 31...

THREE DIMENSIONAL BODY SCANNING SYSTEMS WITH POTENTIAL FOR USE IN THE APPAREL INDUSTRY Su-Jeong Hwang, January, 2001 The technology of three dimensional human body scanning systems is used in various applications, such as movies’ special effects, anthropology, hospitals, militaries, and made to measure garments in apparel. The purpose of this study was to understand the principles of the scanni...