TY - JOUR
T1 - I dress like everyone, i dress like no other
AU - Volchenkov, D.
AU - Banaszak, E.
AU - Kocjan, K.
AU - Krüger, T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 L and H Scientific Publishing, LLC.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - By a successive reduction of complexity in the appearance data collected in situ, we have shown that the way people maintain their appearance constitutes a multi-level dynamical process evolving in several incomparable time scales. The slowest component of this process represents a gradual diffusion of features (with a measurable pace of growing variance) from a proto-costume, which is likely has the 19th century military uniform as a prototype for men, and a robe de soirée - for women. The rapidly varying component of the process is statistically reminiscent of adiabatic processes in thermodynamics which evolve rapidly, without exchange of heat of a system with its environment. The appearance of other people can be considered as being in a state of "thermal equilibrium" between the almost imperceptible, subtle modifications of a traditional costume and the one day gusts of unpredictable fashion.
AB - By a successive reduction of complexity in the appearance data collected in situ, we have shown that the way people maintain their appearance constitutes a multi-level dynamical process evolving in several incomparable time scales. The slowest component of this process represents a gradual diffusion of features (with a measurable pace of growing variance) from a proto-costume, which is likely has the 19th century military uniform as a prototype for men, and a robe de soirée - for women. The rapidly varying component of the process is statistically reminiscent of adiabatic processes in thermodynamics which evolve rapidly, without exchange of heat of a system with its environment. The appearance of other people can be considered as being in a state of "thermal equilibrium" between the almost imperceptible, subtle modifications of a traditional costume and the one day gusts of unpredictable fashion.
KW - Data analysis
KW - Dress up distance
KW - Dress up strategies
KW - Fashion traits
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032740724&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5890/DNC.2014.06.004
DO - 10.5890/DNC.2014.06.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85032740724
VL - 3
SP - 147
EP - 159
JO - Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity
JF - Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity
SN - 2164-6376
IS - 2
ER -