I need to dress better! : relating concerns with appearance to places.

• Main Author: Chia, Wan Ping.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/22657
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper seeks to explain NTU undergraduates’ fluctuating levels of concern for their appearance in everyday life through the concept of the “strangeness” of places. The differences in concerns are examined by looking at the elaborateness of rituals that respondents do after waking up, while the c...