OBJECTIVE To investigate the impressions made by different styles of dress and appearance adopted by physicians on patients, medical students and other physicians in Brazil. METHODS Two hundred fifty nine patients, 119 students, and 99 physicians answered questions related to a panel of male and female physicians' pictures covering the following styles: white clothing; white coat; formal, inf...

Although elite styles are important to the formation of generalised dress styling trends, the elite fashions that appear in the mass media are inaccessible to most consumers. When people buy new mass produced clothing, they choose necessarily from the limited range of styles available in nearby retail stores that are also within their income-based price threshold. In turn, the styles available ...

The clothing we wear and our identities are closely tied, revealing to the world clues about our wealth, occupation, and socioidentity. In this paper we examine questions related to what our clothing reveals about our personal style. We first design an online competitive Style Rating Game called Hipster Wars to crowd source reliable human judgments of style. We use this game to collect a new da...

With the rapid proliferation of smartphones and tablet computers, search has moved beyond text to other modalities like images and voice. For many applications like Fashion, visual search offers a compelling interface that can capture stylistic visual elements beyond color and pattern that cannot be as easily described using text. However, extracting and matching such attributes remains an extr...

Luce's (1959, 1963) choice model was used to characterize individual differences in men's perception of women's affect as friendly, sexually interested, sad, or rejecting. Women's clothing styles were associated with differences in the model's parameters. Sensitivity to sadness, rejection, and friendliness declined when women were dressed provocatively, whereas sensitivity to sexual interest in...

During the Dutch rule period from 1906 to 1942, Jambi experienced significant changes in fashion sector, which reflected colonial influence as well internal society. The people of Jambi, who had access culture, began adopt clothing styles that were considered more modern and luxurious. However, over time, spread wider layers This study aimed explore development during East Indies government (19...

Each day billions of photographs are uploaded to photo-sharing services and social media platforms. These images are packed with information about how people live around the world. In this paper we exploit this rich trove of data to understand fashion and style trends worldwide. We present a framework for visual discovery at scale, analyzing clothing and fashion across millions of images of peo...