 CREATING NEW DESINGS ON THE BASIS OF TRADITIONAL CLOTHES (EXAMPLE OF KOCAEL?)Asuman Yilmaz F?l?z () and
Hatice Harmankaya ()
No 702414, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences Abstract: The field of fashion designing which is given a different point of view every day from the point of the used materials, colors, target groups and the ornament characteristics shows great innovations. The fashion which is handled in different dimensions along with the developing technology and the enrichment of materials experiences flashbacks from time to time. A society may survive only through maintaining its culture. The traditional clothes are one of the cultural elements andthey should be kept alive. In this research, it was aimed to form the costume designing suitable to the current fashions trends through starting with the local elements in traditional clothes and thus, not to remove the traces of traditional clothing as an important culture element; moreover, provide maintainability in fashion and clothing sector. The sampling of this study was chosen using critical status sampling technique in this study which the case study (sample case) within the content of descriptive method is used while establishing the collection theme and the activity research is used while the collection process is applied. In this study which was established through the application of designing development processes, various designing models were analyzed and finally, a new designing model was suggested for the field of fashion designing. In accordance with this suggestion, traditional clothing of Kocaeli region was handled and new designs were developed through analyzing color, ornaments, patterns and materials of clothes. A collection was prepared using every product which was handled and a product was manufactured from every collection. The study is important for the sake of maintaining the traditional values, creating much more different costume designs using ethnic roots in their costume designs which gains different points of view, making the sector, presenting a sample study to the designers to study in this field and the market attractive through possessing a definite target group and establishing a common study group which is fed from different designing fields. Keywords: Traditional Wear; Fashion Designing; Cloth Design Process; Design Models; Preparing Collection (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 12th International Academic Conference, Prague, Oct 2014, pages 1428-1446 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sek:iacpro:0702414 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences |
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