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Looking Like a Victim?

  • 13 October 2017
  • Author: FDM
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Looking Like a Victim?
Dr. Andy Reilly has co-authored a new publication, “Dress, Body, and Experiences of Victimization,” published in the journal Fashion, Style & Popular Culture. It elucidates perceived relationships between aspects of appearance and experiences of any form of victimization from the perspective of survivors. He and his co-author Kim Johnson addressed three research questions: (1) what connection, if any, did survivors draw between their appearance and their experience of victimization? (2) What changes, if any, did survivors make to their appearance after their experience(s)? And (3) what advice on appearance, if any, would survivors give to others as a result of their experience? Five women and three men completed interviews. Participants identified appearance cues as stimuli evoking others’ behaviors towards them, and both general appearance attributes and specific attributes were credited with eliciting negative behaviors. The authors discovered that experiences with victimization often occurred when the individual was attempting to move into a culture that was new to them and that most participants altered or made adjustments to their appearance as a result of their victimization experience.
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Passion for Fashion Innovation

  • 13 October 2017
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Passion for Fashion Innovation
Dr. Shu Hwa Lin shared cutting-edge fashion technology with fashion design students in UH Maui College’s Fashion Technology program during the recent International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) Conference. 
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Mele Moody

  • 6 October 2017
  • Author: Ju-Young Kang
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Mele Moody
FDM alumna Mele Moody recently took time out from her duties with surfwear company Reef to outline her journey. After graduation, Mele took a paid internship with Ocean Minded, a small Southern California surf footwear company. Shadowing a sales rep for the company,.....
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Lynn Sakutori

  • 6 October 2017
  • Author: Ju-Young Kang
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Lynn Sakutori
FDM alumna Lynn Sakutori, a fashion design graduate with local roots, has a new line of clothing, a-line, available in Macy’s stores. The recent Midweek article about her collection explains that she’s been making clothing ever since she was twelve, when she joined 4-H and began a sewing project.....
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Samantha Tio

  • 6 October 2017
  • Author: Ju-Young Kang
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Samantha Tio

HDFS(FamR) alumna Samantha Tio (Tsoi), LSW, is the director of social services at Hale Ho Aloha Nursing Home. Samantha’s been in this personally and professionally fulfilling position for almost ten years now, and she credits her professors and program at CTAHR with getting her started on her journey...

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