Perception of Culture in a way of influencing in Fashion of Dress: Analysis of fashion of dresses in Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka

Abstract

Perception is a scientific process by which people got to know and get ideas about environment. Several modalities of perception are there like Vision, hearing, tactile sensation, taste and vibration sensation. People influence in certain fashion through this process. Important factors involve in perception in a society are culture (norms and values), level of communication, accepted colours. For example same visual stimuli like elephant was percept in Sinhalese culture as a dignity but westerners’ percept it as mere big animal not the dignity. This means same stimuli percept in different cultures in different ways.