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The aim of this study was to design a costume for a Christian dancing group, and also to discuss clothing principles, which need to be taken into consideration in a Christian context. The idea was that the material produced in this study and design process, could also be used by other Christian dancing groups in their problems related to clothing. The research question is: What kind of costume is suitable for Christian dancers? This study was carried out as a design project. In the designing group there were nine members, who are all Christian dance enthusiasts in need of dancing costumes. In the iterative design process the modelling and evaluating of the costume alternated. In the process, I partly applied collaborative design. During the design process and evaluation the costume was analyzed according to the FEA-model, which includes the aspects of functionality, expressiveness, aesthetics, and culture. At the end of the process, the dancing group had a model of a versatile costume, which the dancers found very acceptable. Members of the design group are able to utilize this material later on when designing new costumes. This research will benefit the growing number of Christian dancers, Christian dancing in general and also reflection on the relation of dancing, clothing and Christian faith.

Abstract The aim of this study is to research and describe how the criteria in designing and manufacturing of a figure skating dress are formed and how the aspects of functionality, expressiveness and aesthetics show from dressmaker’s point of view. The study seeks to answer the question: what kind of process the design and manufacture of figure skating costume typically is and how to reach an understanding with the customer about the implementation of the costs of the dress and other details. The aim is to describe the nature of the maker’s work, the challenger and prospects from a perspective of an entrepreneur. There have been only few previous studies of competitive sports covering the fields of arts and skills comparable to figure skating, and those have often focused on mapping the client’s point of view. In this study the focus is on the design process and the voice with maker. The costumer ordered for seasonal competition programs, are few custom-made outfits in the field of sports. Hence, their position is of interest of the increasingly commercial sports business. The study is made by using and thematic interview conducted remotely using the Zoom program for online meetings. The interviewee was a costume designer and maker Titta Kettunen, whose design studio Ateljee Titta Kettunen is currently one of the most popular costume making companies in the Finnish figure skating community. The interview questions were pre-designed to cover perspectives of design principles based on FEA model by Lamb and Kallal (1992). Also, to answer research questions about factors make up the quality and design criteria for figure skating costumes consist of, from the perspective of the costume designer and, on the other hand, what is the design process about. The study aims to describe what emphasis the components receive according to the customers’ needs and wishes and the realities of implementation. Quality is referred to through Garvin’s (1988) classical definitions of quality and the study seeks to describe how different budgets and realities affect the quality of the costumes. Images of varying figure skating outfits selected by the interviewer were used as support and foundation for the interview. The Atlas.ti program was used to save and extract the material, in which the interviewee’s answers were classified by theme. The interview took 1,5 hours. Based on the study; figure skating outfits are valued, and the clients are willing to pay for handcrafted product made in a peasant, themed and individual purposes. There will probably be a demand for costumes now and in the future, if the thematic consistency in the programs remains a special feature of the sport. Costumes live in time and the digitalized world has been reflected in costume technical innovations, but due to the (new) media, costume must withstand a close-up. Costume maker’s professionalism, fluency, reliability, sport and customer knowledge and pricing ability, alongside up-to-date methods and material handling are a key to costume design company’s success now and tomorrow.

The aim of the thesis is to visualize, analyze and interpret the elements of a good figure skating outfit in the light of literature. The thesis has its origins in the need to understand what are the starting points for the costume designer to take into account in their costume assignment and to find out, in the light of the source literature, what has been written about the design of figure skating suits and what other types of evaluation could be used to design figure skating suits. A custom-made themed figure skating outfit is often still an interesting research item in a society, and in the sporting world, that is popular with the ready-to-wear industry. The theoretical basis for the study is the TIE model application compiled by Koskennurmi-Sivonen, a user-driven FEA design model developed by Lamb and Kallal (1992). The core content of the TIE model is concerned with the consideration of three main aspects - functional, expressive and aesthetics - as a starting point for design. The purpose of the study was to find out which elements of the TIE model are associated with figure skating, what other relevant research information or literature is available and whether the information derived therefrom is applicable to the design and construction of figure skating outfits. There is little prior literature on assessment types such as figure skating, so the inclusion and exclusion criteria sought to find as many species of the same style as possible, where the theme-specific costume is both part of the evaluated competition performance as defined by the rules and a sportswear that tends to extreme movements. Finally, a total of five theses on three different sports were found. The study compares figure skating, team gymnastics and costume design features of competitive ballroom dancing, and strive to find consistent guidelines in line with the elements of the TIE model. The method was loosely applied using Torgeson's (2003) systematic literature review. The material was searched into various electronic databases in Finnish and the contents of the material were themed into a TIE model under three perspectives. The theses found were used to find the essential elements for the design of skill suits and, based on them, to outline the elements of a good figure skating suit. The design and features of team gymnastics and dance outfits were very similar to those of figure skating outfits. In all sports, all aspects of the TIE model were emphasized in a good outfit. The following was considered essential: the appearance of the suit as well as its functionality and reliability in the performance, the self-confidence and the feeling of competition, and the overall supportive character.