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Abstract

Garments and garment behavior is influenced by ethical, aesthetical standards and also values and skills, therefore different types of garments exist according to different statuses, positions, and values. The type of garment one chooses to wear represents his/her status, position and values. It plays an important role as a non-verbal medium for delivering information about the wearer that enables visual communication. Therefore choosing what to wear and expressing ourselves through what we wear all contribute in an activity of selecting preferences and understanding what it means. Symbols are ``media that have meanings``. In order to be able to understand this fully, the dictionary definition of media is required and it is an object that delivers an action from one place to another. But a symbol is primarily for replacement, therefore it is very difficult to explain just as it is. For a better understanding of a symbol, further research needs to be done and an area of study on this matter is called semiology. The purpose of semiology is on creating the meaning and interpretation. The definition of semiology is, a study on the act and process of defining the relationship between the symbols and the way people use to rule the symbols, and a research on extracting and interpreting the meanings through symbols. Therefore this research is an attempt to examine the phenomenon of garments structurally using a semiotic approach on the film costumes and through an understanding of the structure of the meanings so that we can look into how the status, position, and values of different characters are expressed by different type of garments.