Casual Wear By James Merrill

No matter who you are, you have never seen your whole self with your own eyes, only a reflection. It’s freaky if you think about it long enough. Every person is concerned on how others view them, but we never know how we look in their eyes. For example, whenever I look at middle school photos of myself, I can’t believe how my hair looked and what I wore. I think this happens to everyone at some point. You could also relate it to the change in times too. I know whenever I have seen photos of my parents in the 80s my mom always says something like “I can’t believe my hair was so big and EW, why shoulder pads”. It’s weird to think that was socially acceptable and normal to wear things like that, but if you decided to dress like that today people would think you are crazy and in some sort of time warp. Dillard talks about how we are overall blinded by light and darkness and how we must try and escape to see clearly. I think the light and dark could represent both how we view things based on past experiences and how we go along with trends that make us biased toward things we believe to be true. Your opinion on things can’t be suppressed no matter how hard you try; moreover, you will never be able to see yourself

In the poem “Much Madness is Divinest Sense”, By Emily Dickinson talks about the two kinds of people that excises in society. The poem start with the person’s “Madness”, Dickinson says “Much Madness is divinest Sense-To a discerning Eye” this means that a person may look like they don’t know what they are talking about or they have a different opinion than the rest of society. In society now a days if you have a different opinion on something or say something is good or bad, people may look at you different. Not everyone thinks the same, every single person has his or hers little world in their head that is complexly different than others. Lot of people that I personally know have change their idea or the way they think just because society

The story, Paris Gown, by Estella Portillo Trambley, really inspired me to find out more about women’s issues, especially Mexican and Mexican American women because not only am I am a female, I am also half Mexican. Teresa and Clo, (Teresa’s grandmother), are the main characters in this story and it starts out with Teresa asking Clo about how she came to be in Paris. Clo tells the story of her own liberation from her very old-fashioned father and the extreme that she went through in order to liberate herself. I have always wondered how much the gender roles have changed or evolved not only in Mexico, but in Mexican culture here in America as well. I’m hoping to find that things are extremely better now for Mexican women then they used to be.

In this quote, Wes Moore, the author, was talking about how he felt about the Riverdale campus where he attended school. He said the pristine campus and well-dressed kids had stunned him during his first visit. Wes felt a crazy-making crosscurrent of emotions whenever he stepped on the Riverdale campus. He said he had to try and hide the fact that his family was so much poorer than everyone else’s at school. Wes even had to sit down and create a schedule every week for his clothes. He only had 3 good shirts and 3 good pairs of pants that he would try and create a new combination so it did not look like he was always wearing the same clothes. Later he even borrowed some of Nikki’s clothes to create more of a variation. Wes’s mother graduated

People indulge in clothes shopping every day and often do not consider the changes that occurred throughout time that led to the development of mass produced clothing for both men and women. As a result of the Civil War, the production of clothing shifted from homemade clothing to clothing mass produced in factories. After the Civil War, Urbanization along with new developments, such as advertising and the new, wealthy urban class, increased the demand for mass produced women’s clothing and clothing stores that made clothing readily available.

George Szirtes article “Formal Wear: Notes on Rhyme, Meter, Stanza, and Pattern” from the Poetry Foundation opens with opinions which focus on limitations of poetic form. As a counter to these common arguments, Szirtes claims, “Verse is not decoration: it is structural. It is a forming principle and words at depth” ("Formal Wear: Notes” 2). He then develops an argument explaining, “the constraints of form are spurs of the imagination: that they are in fact the chief producers of imagination” ("Formal Wear: Notes” 2). Taking these ideas into consideration Szirtes incorporates the idea of language explaining how language connects to memory and imagination which come together to form poetic images. Additionally, when poets use form it develops

The Victorian Era is well known for puffy skirts and restricting formal garments while the Progressive Era was known for its more flamboyant attire and the World War II Era for its more conservative style to ration for the war. The history of clothing and fashion calls to question its importance in distinguishing identities of different groups of people as well as marking the different stages of the country’s cultural, political, and economic history. How are the different clothing styles reflective of the values and lifestyle of the multicultural United States and more importantly, how did it contribute to the creation of the American identity? 17th century inhabitants of the North American continent exhibited vastly different wardrobe choices

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Walter Mosley’s novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, explores the racial prejudices in Los Angeles during the 1940’s. The novel takes place in 1948, when the United States was still legally segregated into black and white communities and when people divided themselves into lower and upper classes. Easy Rawlins, the main character in the book, is an ordinary lower class African American worker, who faces limited opportunities and little money to live on. Throughout the novel, Easy Rawlins experiences firsthand the blatant racism prevailing in 1948. Walter Mosley’s novel reveals how life was in Los Angeles after WWII, before the civil rights movement. By viewing an American city from the perspective of a black lead character, Devil in A Blue Dress helps one become more conscious of how racial barriers have appeared in the eyes of African-Americans.

I Karly Moller-Buck am the manager of a clothing store called Sass & Chic Clothing in western Sydney. I have recently had a meeting with my boss (Miranda Dove, The owner of sass & chic clothing.) in which Miranda informed me that I had been selected as project manager for a project within the company. The Project is opening a new sass & chic store in Sydney’s CBD. Miranda has purchased the building for the new store and it is now my Job to choose a team to help me complete this project of preparing the store for opening, hiring staff for the new store and opening the new store successfully. If successful this project will be greatly financially beneficial to the sass & chic company as the new store is in a prime location. Before commencing the project we made sure that the goals of this project met the organisations objectives outlined in the organisation vision and mission statement, This project aligns with many objectives in the organisations vision and mission statement with the main one being it is achieving the company’s objective of expanding and opening more stores within the year.

During our life we construct many different identities of who we want to portray ourselves as to the rest of society; fashion plays a vital role in generating who we are. With the ideas from Storry and Childs they state that “the way that we dress can either serve to confirm or to subvert various facets of our identities, such as our gender,

Clothes are the way people express themselves in Western culture without the use of words. One can tell many things about a person based upon the way they are dressed. While many things may be erroneous when judging someone by the way they

Art is all around us. There are many different forms of art. It can be something created, captured, or it can be already existent. Not a single person is to say what makes something art because there is a different definition for everyone. However, there are a couple factors that come into mind whenever someone decides to declare something as art. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting four different pieces of art. I will be discussing each art piece’s form, time period of creation, intention or purpose, and value. These four pieces of art are Michelangelo’s Pieta, Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko’s No.61, and the “Oyster Dress” by Alexander McQueen. These works of art come in all different shapes and sizes but they are valued

There is a distinct contrast between appearance and reality, which works to reinforce the idea of confining individualistic behaviours to retain the ‘pattern’ of society. In stanza two, she says that “tripping by in high-heeled, ribboned shoes/ (there is) not a softness anywhere about (her)” (lines 16 and 17) when she’s wearing “only whalebone and brocade” (line 18.) The term ‘whalebone’ refers to a whalebone corset, which is a very hard material that is restrictive to movement. By describing her actions as ‘tripping,’ a modern day feminist reader is reinforced that she is not coping in her current lifestyle where she is limited to living in a strict manner. In the next stanza, she says that “underneath (her) stiffened gown/ Is the softness of a woman” (lines 32 and 33.) This develops the idea that the way she dresses is a deceiving appearance, because she is not as stiff and stable on the inside as she comes across on the outside. Deep down she is soft and sad, in mourning of the loss of her lover, yet she cannot express these emotions due to the expectations and restrictions of women during the Victorian era.

Everyday, we see hundreds of people. Whether we see them on the street, at work, at school, or on television, people pass through our visual field. Fortunately or unfortunately, we judge these people. It may be intentional, it may be unintentional, or it may be somewhat intentional, but we form opinions about people based on their style of dress.