In media science, the concept of the costume language is only vaguely defined. We propose a formal definition of this concept, which is based on the concept of pattern languages. In order to derive the patterns of such a language we introduce a method that supports capturing knowledge about clothes, identifying costumes based on clothes and abstracting costumes into costume patterns. Thus, cost...

An attempt was made to assess the impact of nurses' mode of dress (uniform vs. street clothes) on the perception and behavior of patients differing in the degree of their dependence on stereotypic information in the decision-making process. It was found that a nurse in uniform was perceived more stereotypically, that is, as more of a benevolent autocrat, than the same nurse in street clothes be...