Md Mostafa Zaman

• Ph.D. in Retail and Consumer Sciences
• Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Pittsburgh

This study examined whether consumer orientations differ among frequent shoppers of three types of second-hand clothing stores: consignment stores, online stores, and thrift stores. The literature suggests that second-hand clothing shoppers can be described by six consumer orientations: frugality, style consciousness, ecological consciousness, dema...

Second-hand clothing has long been associated with the used, worn-out, tainted and even odorous, but now consumers believe that used products have quality comparable to new clothes and even some perceive used clothing to be of superior quality than their unworn counterparts. This study examines whether consumer orientations differ among frequent sh...

During the past five years, the footwear industry has shown signs of growth as economic conditions have improved, generating an increased consumer demand for shoes. As footwear is becoming more recognized as a fashion product, apparel designers establish footwear collaborations and putting a big focus on shoes (Butler-Young, 2018). In this growing...

With the increased awareness about ecological concerns and the growing popularity of sustainable fashion, thrift retail stores are growing fast both in number and sales. However, limited research has examined thrift stores as a distinct retail sector from a general second-hand retail sector that includes both non-profit thrift stores and for-profit...

Assistant professors will be the staple of future hospitality programs within academia. Given that most tenure-track professors being older than age 50, colleges and universities acknowledge that attrition might have a significant impact on future academic learning environments. Many hospitality programs have devised current mentorship programs to...

Many businesses have turned to ESG reporting to satisfy the informational needs of their external and internal stakeholders. ESG stands for environmental, social and governance metrics – both qualitative and quantitative – to highlight how well or poorly a firm is doing in terms of long-run sustainability. Investors and governments as well as custo...

In the last twenty years, second-hand clothing market has drastically grown. Prior research has identified a number of factors that determine second-hand clothing shopping. Those factors can be categorized as product attributes (e.g., quality and uniqueness) or personal orientation, which can be either self-oriented (e.g., fashion consciousness and...

This research investigated the influence of Glauber Salt concentrations on the exhaustion of three types of reactive dyes (Synozol, Novacron, and Clariant). The effects of various fastness (color fastness to wash, abrasion, and pilling) properties of dyes were also studied and reported in this paper in detail. Three primary colors (Red, Blue, and Y...

This study investigated the influence of dispersing agent concentrations on the colorfastness properties of Synolon Yellow EXW fluorescent disperse dye applied on knitted polyester fabric in exhaust dyeing method. Four different concentrations (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 gm/l) of dispersing agent were used and dye shade percentages were 0.5%, 1.0% and 1...

Treatment of textile wastewaters by the combination of biologically activated sludge process and electrocoagulation has been investigated in this paper. This study, focused on investigating the pollutant removal efficiency, economic feasibility as well as the ecological advantages of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) compared to the small scat...

Different design strategies for self-healing materials are described in this editorial. In this study autonomic self-healing process in composite material is shown using microencapsulated healing agent. The components for self-healing are urea formaldehyde capsule with dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) monomer and paraffin wax microspheres containing 10 wt%...

This paper focuses on dimensional properties of elastomeric single jersey knitted fabrics by feeding elastomeric yarn with different feeding speeds. Two key issues are discussed here in this paper one is comparison of different dimensional properties of elastomeric knitted fabric for different feeding speed with 100% cotton knitted fabric and secon...

This paper explores the future buying behavior of consumer’s and challenges need to meet retailers with the developments in computer technology and invention of new digital instruments. The retailing faced to an evolution because the world is changing and most of the countries are developing, therefore the competence parameters as well as the peopl...

Self-healing material is taking an increase number of interest worldwide because of their autonomic healing properties. This unique material behavior is inspired by biological systems. In this study different approaches for self-healing materials are shown. Three conceptual approaches are available for self-healing: capsule-based healing systems, v...

The following paper shows a momentous presence of quantum tunnelling composite in textile keypad, by this research we have tried to present the properties of the novel materials and importance of their industrial and commercial application in textile keypad. This product have millions of uses in different sector, by using quantum tunnelling composi...