Benefiting from fashion design to spread societal awareness against the harmful effects of drugs.

Document Type : Original Article

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Fashion and Textile- Faculty of Human sciences and design - KAU

Abstract

Drugs and the problem of addiction are among the problems facing many societies nowadays, because of their negative effects on the level of individuals and families in particular and society in general.
Drug abuse affects the well-being of the mind and body and deviant behaviors are acquired as a result of its effects. Therefore, community awareness of its dangers must be raised, and awareness of its scourges and harm to the individual and society must be contributed. The Kingdom is making efforts to reduce and combat it locally and internationally.
Fashion and style play a major role in imparting aesthetic standards, behavioral values, social systems, customs, traditions, public morals, artistic taste, general culture, and cultural and social heritage, as good design expresses the achievement of standards for linking art and technology (technology). In design through the processes of controlling science and art and customizing it in the performance of clothing design, which appears through the practical and virtual level of design.
The research aims to use clothing to spread community awareness against the harms of drugs and design clothing for young people that carry awareness ideas against the harms of drugs, in addition to measuring the opinions of specialists on the proposed designs..

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