Communicating femininity

Abstract

The research in discussion is a pragmatic exploration of a previous study which identified methods architecting the dress. The dress was considered as a body attachment and the methods of architecting was three-fold. Architecting the dress with the body as layers, as elements and as volume based additions. Two main themes are found within the research. The architected dress, which allows a dialogue by using the dress and the body in isolation and in symphony to communicate a particular message and the wearer experience which behaves as a catalyst to the dialogue by enhancing the body movements adding more clarity and versatility to the message that needs to be communicated by the wearer. The work of Senarathna (2016) which focused on communicating femininity is used to critically study the afore mentioned two main themes in discussion. The research problem was recognized as an ill-structured problem (ISP) and uses the methods of progressing in ISP. The research was funded by the Senate Research Committee of the University of Moratuwa under the grant number SRC/ST/2016/26.