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Current News and Events

Thailand Study Tour 2008 (pdf)

Spring 2008 Southeastern Consortium
  - Visiting Scholar Lecture (pdf)
  - Bio (pdf)

Spring 2008 Advising Day
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  - Proposed Plan of Study

New York Fashion Trip 2008
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CARS Research

Research is currently focused in the following areas:   

Markets and Consumption

• Consumer purchasing attitudes and behaviors towards textiles and apparel
• Characteristics and measurement of markets for technical and industrial textiles.
• Psychology of dress
• Textile recycling markets
• The '"grey" market

Strategy and Marketing

• Measurement and characteristics of markets and supply chains for textiles and apparel.
• Patterns of strategic development and adjustment in national and international fiber, textile, and apparel industries.
• Brand management
• Market orientation

Economics, Politics, Technology and Trade

• Impact of trade policies
• Impact of information technology

Retailing

• Developments in international textile and apparel retailing
• Retail strategy.

Product Development

• Social construction of identity through textiles and dress in culture and history.
• Historic costumes in performance
• New product development and interfunctional involvement

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