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Adaptive Clothing Designs of Kurtis for Elderly Women


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1 Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India
     

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The present study was carried out on designing of adaptive clothing designs of Kurtis for elderly women based on their clothing needs to make comfortable dressing for them. The researcher designed 20 different designs of Kurtis with adaptive features which were evaluated by panel of judges on selected parameters in developed rating scale. Findings revealed that the mean scores obtained by all the design codes were found in the higher range, i.e. above 0.66 to 0.91, which clearly shows that all the developed designs of Kurtis for elderly women were found highly acceptable in terms of aesthetic, functional, constructional and comfort features by the judges.

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Adaptive, Clothing, Design, Kurti, Elderly, Women.
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Authors

Shikha Dashora
Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India
Meenu Srivastava
Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India

Abstract


The present study was carried out on designing of adaptive clothing designs of Kurtis for elderly women based on their clothing needs to make comfortable dressing for them. The researcher designed 20 different designs of Kurtis with adaptive features which were evaluated by panel of judges on selected parameters in developed rating scale. Findings revealed that the mean scores obtained by all the design codes were found in the higher range, i.e. above 0.66 to 0.91, which clearly shows that all the developed designs of Kurtis for elderly women were found highly acceptable in terms of aesthetic, functional, constructional and comfort features by the judges.

Keywords


Adaptive, Clothing, Design, Kurti, Elderly, Women.

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