Variations in Perception of Clothing as a Function of Dress Form and Viewers' Social Community
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 54 (1) , 155-163
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1982.54.1.155
Abstract
The study tested the prediction that social attributions made on the basis of clothing cues vary both as a function of the dress form and as a function of the particular social community of the viewer. A 4 by 4 factorial design was employed with students from one of 4 different faculties responding to a questionnaire about a photograph portraying one of 4 types of dress. While clothing conveys a variety of social meanings, the meaning attributed depends on the context of the viewers' social framework of interpretation.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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