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Biography
Dr. Sheri Dragoo has served on the TWU faculty for 14 years. She is a member of the Fashion Group International, the Texas Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and serves as the design and aesthetics chair for the International Textiles and Apparel Association.
After receiving her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, Dr. Dragoo taught at TWU for four years, and then left for a five-year stint as the director of fiber marketing Texas Department of Agriculture. For the past 10 years, she has taught fashion design, tailoring, illustration, event planning and promotion and computer design applications at TWU.
Dr. Dragoo has been actively involved in the State Employee Charitable Campaign on the TWU campus and serves on the board of directors for the United Way of Denton County. She also coordinates the Denton Chapter of the American Heart Association’s GO RED for Women Fashion Show and Luncheon held each February.
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Areas of Expertise (9)
Fashion
Textiles
Fashion Design
Tailoring
Illustration
Event Planning and Promotion
Computer Design Applications
Construction
Pattern-Making
Education (3)
Texas Tech University: Ph.D., Clothing, Textiles and Merchandising 1993
Texas Tech University: M.S., Clothing, Textiles and Merchandising 1990
Christian Heritage College: B.S., Home Economics, Minor in Fashion Design 1987
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Message clothed in eye-catching hue
Denton RC
2016-02-12
“We have lots and lots of global influence,” said Sheri Dragoo, a TWU professor who organized the fashion show. “Some that came from the student’s own background in culture, which we thought was lovely. Then we got to our scene about America and went, ‘OK, where is our American fashion in this?’ And really, we saw a very broad spectrum there.”...
Articles (1)
Teaching fashion illustration to university students: Experiential and expository methods/Commentary
Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences
1998 ABSTRACT: This study determined the effectiveness of the expository and experiential teaching methods on university students' ability to draw a fashion figure. The sample included 52 students enrolled in two sections of an introductory fashion illustration course. For each teaching method ...
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