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Dress

Description: Evening dress of blue silk gazar. The full-length dress has a fitted bodice simulating a wrap style, with V neckline, and long straight sleeves with 5 fabric buttons at each wrist. The skirt has an asymmetrical peplum with an inverted opening in front that is equal to the floor length A-line skirt, giving the effect of an over-skirt pulled back to reveal an underskirt. At back is a zipper closure from neckline to below hips, with a series of snaps at the top of the peplum. The dress has an a… more
Date: 1980/1989
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Transposition and the Transposed Modes in Late-Baroque France

Description: The purpose of the study is the investigation of the topics of transposition and the transposed major and minor modes as discussed principally by selected French authors of the final twenty years of the seventeenth century and the first three decades of the eighteenth. The sources are relatively varied and include manuals for singers and instrumentalists, dictionaries, independent essays, and tracts which were published in scholarly journals; special emphasis is placed on the observation and at… more
Date: December 1988
Creator: Parker, Mark M. (Mark Mason)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Purchasing Power Parity and the Efficient Markets: the Recent Empirical Evidence

Description: The purpose of the study is to empirically determine the relevance of PPP theory under the traditional arbitrage and the efficient markets (EPPP) frameworks during the recent floating period of the 1980s. Monthly data was collected for fifteen industrial nations from January 1980 to December 1986. The models tested included the short-run PPP, the long-run PPP, the EPPP, the EPPP with deviations from expectations, the forward rates as unbiased estimators of future spot rates, the EPPP and the fo… more
Date: December 1988
Creator: Yuyuenyongwatana, Robert P. (Robert Privat)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Exploratory Investigation of Socio-Economic Phenomena that May Influence Accounting Differences in Three Diverse Countries

Description: This dissertation attempts to provide an exploratory structure to respond to, and tries to resolve, an existing void in international accounting research. The void is a lack of coherently structured, nation-specific, descriptive research to investigate socio-economic phenomena which may influence financial accounting. This dissertation's salient features include a political economy theory, an exploratory, sociological method, and a case study format. The political economy of accounting, introdu… more
Date: August 1989
Creator: Hudack, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Ralph)
Partner: UNT Libraries

Coat

Description: Coat of intricate patchwork of Prince of Wales wool plaid, wool hounds tooth, wool petit point, all-over embroidered with pewter metallic floral vines. Knee length. Simulated double breasted, off-center opening with hidden placket button closure; notched collar. Long sleeves with 6 functioning button closure at wrists. Two flap pockets with welts at each front hip with lapels; pockets not open. Knee-length. Fan pleating at back. Fully lined in gray silk. Designer's label at center back necklin… more
Date: 1989
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Dress

Description: Dress of brown wool flannel, with piping of blue wool flannel. Standing collar; long raglan sleeves with large armholes; beaded medallion CF on bodice; bodice gathered into low waistline; 3 gored skirt; knee length.
Date: 1980/1985
Creator: Chloé (Firm)
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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The Flute Professors of the Paris Conservatoire from Devienne to Taffanel, 1795-1908

Description: Since its establishment (1795), the Paris Conservatoire has attracted top-ranking flutists who, through their playing, teaching, writings, and attitudes, (toward the Boehm flute, for example), have influenced flutists and composers throughout Europe. Through Paul Taffanel, who founded the Societe d'Instruments a Vent in 1876, standards of woodwind playing reached new heights. When Taffanel's students, Georges Laurent and Georges Barrere, emigrated to the United States, they influenced the style… more
Date: August 1980
Creator: Ahmad, Patricia
Partner: UNT Libraries
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French Theories of Beauty and the Aesthetics of Music 1700 to 1750

Description: Studies of eighteenth-century French musical aesthetics have traditionally focused on questions of taste treated in the critical literature of the day. During the first half of the century, however, certain French writers were dealing with aesthetics in the stricter sense of the word, proposing theories of beauty that suited existing philosophical values. The treatises in which these ideas were set forth--Jean-Pierre de Crousaz' Traité du beau, Jean-Baptiste DuBos' Réflexions critiques sur la p… more
Date: August 1982
Creator: Dill, Charles William
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Louis XI and the Feudality of France 1461-1483

Description: This thesis examines the struggle between King Louis XI and the great feudal houses of the fifteenth century such as Burgundy, Brittany, Anjou, Armagnac, Bourbon, and Foix. It attempts to provide a detailed narrative based on the primary sources and the excellent studies on individual feudal princes produced by a number of French historians, supplemented by a critical analysis of the traditional view of Louis XI as the "vainquer de la grande féodalité."
Date: December 1984
Creator: Spencer, Mark B. (Mark Benner)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Amerikanuak eta Asmoak: New World Basques and Immigration Theories

Description: The focus of this thesis is the relationship between immigration historiography and the history of Basque migration to the United States. The depictions of immigration presented by historians Oscar Handlin, Marcus Lee Hansen, and John Higham have been influential in immigration historiography and are presented in the first chapter. The second chapter contains a description of Old World Basque culture and the third chapter presents a brief history of Basque migration to the United States. The fo… more
Date: August 1984
Creator: Echeverría, Jerónima, 1946-
Partner: UNT Libraries

Skirt suit

Description: Skirt suit of yellow boucle wool with black silk trim on jacket. A) Jacket is slightly fitted. Hip-length, long sleeves. Center front opening with six gold-tone buttons and single snap at banded neckline. Sleeves with three matching buttons and turned-back cuffs. Two functional flap pockets at hips; two false flaps at bust. Flaps, cuff turn-backs, and collar with black silk facings. Lined in yellow silk with gold chain weight at hemline. Designer's label: “Chanel / Boutique” Size/origin/cont… more
Date: 1980/1989
Creator: Chanel (Firm)
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Ensemble

Description: Skirt ensemble. A) Boxed jacket of brown twill. Short sleeves. Banded collar follows sides of squared neckline. Center front closure of three circular white buttons at hem. Lined in brown synthetic; padded shoulders. Designer's label at center back neckline: "Chloé / Made in France" Care tags at back neckline and left side seam. B) Shell blouse of dark taupe silk crepe with vertical stripes of red, turquoise, navy, ivory, and tan. Rounded neckline; sleeveless with deep arm holes. Center bac… more
Date: 1985/1990
Creator: Chloé (Firm)
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Cropped jacket

Description: Cropped jacket of ribbed navy blue wool blend. Wide notched lapel. Puffed long sleeves with rolled cuffs. Seam center back. Fully lined in blue; shoulder pads. Designer Label: Saint Laurent / rive gauche / Made in France / Paris
Date: 1985/1989
Creator: Saint Laurent, Yves
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Suede jacket

Description: Jacket of olive green suede. Single breasted with notched lapels and fitted, slim silhouette; wooden button closure at center front. Patch pockets at hips; welt pocket at left bust. Long suit sleeves with shoulder pads and two wooden buttons at vented cuffs. Lower hip length. Lined in olive green silk. Designer label: Saint Laurent / rive gauche / Made in France / Paris Evidence of tag removed.
Date: 1985/2005
Creator: Saint Laurent, Yves
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Fox Coat

Description: Clutch coat of light brown sheared beaver fur with the neckline, opening, hem and shoulder line down the sleeves edged in fox fur.
Date: 1980/2005
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Evening dress

Description: Strapless evening gown of red silk gaaar, with an elasticized red silk encased neck strap running from center front to behind the neck. It has a large draped bow in the center front of bodice, center back zipper closure with a hook-&-eye at the neckline and in the skirt placket. There is an attached full-length red taffeta petticoat. Boned red silk inner bodice with grosgrain bust and waist stays.and a black sequin and bugle bead belt with silver sequin and bugle bead buckle.
Date: 1983/1987
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Dress

Description: Dress of grey wool tweed with herringbone weave and black velvet contrasts. Tailored dress with plunging open V-neckline with turned back collar. Centerfront contrast panel embellished with six black buttons. Set- in. full-length sleeves. Waistseam with fitted. knee-length gathered skirt. Angled. contrasting. floating panels from waistseam to side hip seams accented with two black buttons at the hip. Zipper closure from left underarm seam to hip level. Fully lined in gray silk. Black grosgrain … more
Date: 1983-09~/1983-12
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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