Browsing by Author "De Silva, Nimal"

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Process of causing influences on fashion of costumes
Ranathunga, GM; De Silva, Nimal
Textile industry in Sri Lanka makes a massive contribution to her economy. As it is largely compromised of ready-made garment productions, fashion designing, the essential component that plays a pivotal role in the industry, deserves a careful and comprehensive study. Creating new fashions is the key to the product development in the textile industry. A new creation would not simply become a fashion unless it conforms to some underlying theories which are expected to be brought to light through this research. Using the Grounded Theory Methodology it attempts to analyse some aspects of its spectrum, such as ‘how a fashion influences the wearer’, ‘what makes a fashion popular’ and ‘what psychological, economical and social forces give rise to new trends and creations’. Several such theories have been ascertained and the possibility of their modification as to the practicability in the future application to the product development of the fashion industry has been discussed. The apex assertion of this exploration is that, ‘The adaptation of costumes in Sri Lanka is not oriented towards environment but to the task expected with the dress’ This fact should be taken into consideration in future development planning in fashion industry of Sri Lanka.
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The Sri Lankan tradition for shelter
(1987) De Silva, Nimal
The tradition is the opinion or belief or custom handed down from ancestors to posterity. The tradition is not static, it is the product of the functional demand adopted with the nature and environment, flavoured with culture and belief. It was developed with certain value systems, anything that was not acceptable to the society was gradually rejected, only what was proved useful for people were retained and adopted. The outcome of confidence and the human satisfaction experienced by the ancestors, formulated and precipitated the tradition. Today it is assumed that the ultimate objective of modernizing development is the urbanization and industrialization. In a country like Sri Lanka with a rural population of more than 80% one must be careful in formulating development policies. The result of inappropriate development policies which assume that increased agricultural production is synonymous with rural development, Where such policies are based on large scale, capital intensive agro-industrial projects, there may be serious disturbance to existing settlement patterns