Creating Designs for Evening Wear for Women Inspired by the Natural Flowers

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Lecturer at the Faculty of Specific Education - Tanta University

Abstract

Nature is representing a very rich source to provide creative ideas to innovate and renovate fashion lines. In the present study, the researcher will create novel fifteen designs formed of unique mix of elements inspired from different flowers beauty structures. The flowers used are
(Carnations Flower – Display Link Flower – Lotus Flower – gerbera Flower - calla Lily Flower)
 Research Enquires
1- Do natural design lines suit ladies evening wear?
2- How can we implement of different models inspired from flowers for designing ladies evening wear?
3- What is the appropriate design elements (lines - forms -colors) inspired from flowers to use in ladies evening wear
4- Do the designed product find acceptance from the target consumers.
5- How to take advantage of specialized drawing programs in highlighting the aesthetics of innovative designs
Important of the research
-        Enrich the domestic market designs adapted from natural flowers
-        Development clothing taste for Women in choosing their own clothes Evening
-        the use of computers in enriching the aesthetic values ​​of couture
Keywords
creation  - fashion design  - natural flower  - modernism
Research objectives

Study the effect of various design elements for flowers in the quote them to produce designs for evening wear for womens
benefit from the aesthetics of nature, especially the different flowers in offering innovative designs for evening wear for ladies
enrich evening wear designs for ladies aesthetics of natural flowers
strengthening the field of fashion design using the computer techniques through specialized graphic programs

Research hypotheses
- Achieved designs inspired by the flowers of evening wear for ladies degree of acceptance and success in the light of the assessment of specialists averages axes Rating
- Achieved designs inspired by the flowers of evening wear for ladies degree of acceptance and success in the light of the assessment of the average target of axes Category Rating
- There are statistically significant relationship between the order of the arbitrators target designs implemented flowers for evening wear for ladies and Category
Been created different designs adapted from selected flowers were evaluated these actions through a series of questionnaires
Recearch Tools
- It has been using a set of questionnaires:
- Questionnaire for professionals include five axes for evaluation
- Questionnaire target group (women age 25-40 years)
Research Delimitations:
1. Clothes designs fit the ladies in the evening period for the age group (25: 40)
2. The study was limited to the use of five types of flowers, (carnations Flower – DisplayLink Flower – Lotus Flower – gerbera Flower - calla Lily Flower)
Research Design
The Research experimental method depends on drawing a range of different models adapted from natural flowers
And descriptive approach in describing models Implementing
Analytical method in the analysis of the results of the acceptance of the arbitrators quoted Models
The study found:
1-The designed models achieved variable levels of acceptance in the light of the specialist’s assessment and target group opinions.
The main aspects that were investigated are;
 - The flower selected for the design.
 - The harmony between design elements 
 - Functional aspects of the design.
2 - Statistical analysis of specialists’ evaluation showed that design No. 10 which is adapted from the Lotus flower got the highest rank. In the second position comes design No.13.  On the other hand, According to target consumer opinion, design No 10 comes first, followed by design No. 4 which is adapted from lotus flower.
3- Using Spearman coefficient to test the rank correlation between specialist evaluation and target group opinion showed high level of statistical significance
Study Recommendations
The study recommends increased attention in studying the relationship between natural resources and fashion design new artistic visions and the development of rules and the scientific foundations for the selection of women's clothes

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