By, Dr. Sakshi Shail (Assistant Professor) Satyam Fashion Institute A surgical mask is a loose-fitting disposable device that creates a physical barrier between mouth and nose of the wearer and potential contaminants in the immediate environment. It also prevents a human being from direct transmission of infectious disease. Normal activities such as sneezing, coughing, breathing and speaking may release oral, dermal and nasopharyngeal bacteria that may cause post-operative infections. This review focuses on surgical face masks and their classification based on the performance like filtration efficiency, pressure difference, splash resistance etc. Further, the quality evaluation of surgical face masks and standards for manufacturing surgical face masks has also been reviewed. Keywords: Surgical face mask, operation procedures, hospital infections, pathogens, filtration efficiency. Surgical mask fabric should be highly breathable, comfortable, soft and gentle on the skin. Lightweight and single-use fabrics used for the construction of surgical face masks. A surgical face mask has the primary objective of protecting the medical professional and patient from fluids. Since face masks can be worn for long periods of time, the nonwoven fabric used to construct the face mask should be soft and gentle on the skin. The custom of facemask-wearing began in Japan during the early years of the 20th century, when a massive pandemic of influenza killed between 20 and 40 million people around the world—more than died in World War I. There were outbreaks of the disease on every inhabited continent, including Asia (where it devastated India, leading to the deaths of a full 5% of the population). Covering the face with scarves, veils and masks became a prevalent (if ineffective) means of warding off the disease in many parts of the world, until the epidemic finally faded at the end of 1919. How should face mask be worn? Always wash your hands with soap and water...
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April 17, 2020By, Dr. Neetu Malhotra, HOD Satyam Fashion Institute, Noida Figure:1 Figure:2 The days are gone when kids used to wear everything and anything that their parents used to choose for them. Now kids always want to be dressed in fashionable clothes as they want to be a fashionable kid. They want to be dressed in attires of their own choice and have their own favourites. Kids wear has a lot of variety which includes kids fashion clothing, kids nightwear, kids readymade garments, kids rompers, kids tops, kids knitted wear, kids winter clothing, kids summer clothing, organic clothing. It is important for parents to encourage creative choices, it is always better for a kid to choose style they feel comfortable as they desire to attract the attention of kids of their age .They want to choose their clothing from designer collection for kids. Always encourage child to choose colours and style they like, as opposed to setting for what everyone else tells them to wear as eye catching colours and attractive designs tells their personality and style also help them to stand out of the crowd and this will attract the attention of people of all age groups. Childhood is the learning phase of life, where children should take up good things in life; develop good taste on everything and today kids are very conscious about dressings and their appearance. On the top of that parents are very keen to spend on this occasion. Figure:3 Figure:4 A number of factors should be taken into consideration before buying clothes for children, some of these are : Comfort : it is important that the clothes should be comfortable. Make them select their clothes as well this will be happy wearing what they select, this way they will be happy...
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By, Dr. Vandana Jaglan, Principal Satyam Fashion Institute ‘Design‘ in its literal sense means ‘to create or contrive for a particular purpose or effect’. Design, in general, always have a purpose be it personal gratification, solution for a problem, technical requirement, social issues or any fashion related emergence. When we talk about creating a new design, we first look into the need of the creation, work on getting the list of all what is required to be achieved by the design and ask the basic questions for its existence. While answering these questions, we end up getting a rough idea of what we want to create or what is going to be the DESIGN. All the designs created are based on the quests of the designers and artists to add solution to a working problem like how the basic design of a dining plate was conceptualised and how is it different from the basic design of a spoon. This is because the need of both the products are different which is the starting point of the design quest! Coming to the field of costume design, this is an area which is totally based on the need of the story to portray the characters in the best possible way. The Oxford English Dictionary defines costume as ‘the clothes worn by people from a particular place or during a particular historical period’. Also, it states that costumes are the clothes worn by the actors in a play or film to make them look like something else. In costume design, the most important factor is the realism achieved through costumes within the confines of a script. ‘‘Costume design in films is believed to be embedded in the story and adds significant information to achieve its visual and narrative aspects and helps to achieve...
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January 15, 2020
SHAPING THE GEOMETRICS OF AFGHAN EMBROIDERY DATE – (AFGHAN REFUGEES DESIGNING “A LIFE SHE LOVES”)
By, Ms.Mahima Malik (student) B.Design (Textile Design) Dr. Vandana Jaglan (Principal) Satyam Fashion Institute The art of embroidery is deeply rooted in the cultural history of Afghanistan as well as India, which unites the two countries beyond boundaries. Embroidery work is traditionally done by women and girls in Afghanistan. The Afghan technique involves counting each minute thread in the woven fabric to develop patterns that are symmetrical, evenly spaced and perfectly matched. Unlike other forms of embroidery, one cannot embroider it by printing design on fabric. Afghan embroidery directly develops designs onto fabric with perfection in stitchery. This often takes a physical toll on artisans as they have to carefully count each thread. The work is so intricate and precise that it is often mistaken for a weave or machine embroidery. This embroidery is done with silk, wool and cotton thread, used on hand woven cotton and woolen backgrounds. Afghanistan and India have traditionally been strongly connected and friendly. For more than 17 years, hundreds of women and men who were trapped in the wars in Afghanistan, and robbed of their dignity and hope, escaped to India. India provided them much-needed refuge. Women are given the opportunity to be free and regain control of their lives in a foreign land. Typical embroidery of Afghanistan is done with a frequent use of one dominant stitch on each piece; this stitch depends on the ethnic group of the embroiderer, denoting an integral part of their tribal life. The distinctiveness of Afghan embroidery lies in the way it is executed and by its small stitch size and length, which is sometimes reversible. It is done by counting each minute thread which runs in width or length-wise direction on the fabric. The fabric used is hand-woven khaddar, cotton or any available fabric that is...