Clothing Vs Clothing

This set of photographs shows couples from the project “Switcheroo.” The clothing in which the couple wears expresses defining gender qualities. Dresses are viewed and labelled as feminine while pants and dress shirts represent masculinity. These photos contribute to Margo DeMello’s perspective on the gendered nature of men’s and women’s clothing. Both models can express their gender through their facial expressions, stance, and posture.

How does somebodies attire effects other people’s judgments of them? More specifically, how does attire of women influences others judgments? These are questions that take root from evolving problems in the world today. It is hard to give an honest answer because it is an opinionated argument. However, appropriate attire policies is a growing problem for society, there is a growing demand for equality in male and female attire. The argument is expressed in an article written by Laura Bates called, “How School Dress Codes Shame Girls and Perpetuate Rape Culture”. The problem is that women are expected to dress in a way that is socially acceptable. Socially acceptable means that, females must dress in a way that protects and covers the female anatomy. This argument that Bates explains, expresses a pathos appeal because you are allowed to understand the point of view of those who have been victimized by dress codes. The article also gives an ethos appeal because the article makes a person question their morale value. Questioning whether dress codes are equal or unjust and sexist. Reading the argumentative peace it is obvious that Bates stands against sexist dress codes.

Target has a wide variety of clothes that appeal to a wide variety of people. The main segments of their targeted consumers are women, men, and children. The sub-segments in women’s clothing are active wear, youth, or maternity. Active wear are for women who are looking for comfortable clothes to workout in. Youth are for casual or business casual people to wear on a day to day basis. Maternity clothes are for women who are pregnant and looking for clothes that are bigger. Men sub-segments include active wear and casual wear. Both sub-segments serve the same purpose as the women’s. Children sub-segments include infant, toddler, and school uniforms. Infant are usually gender-neutral clothing for all babies. Toddler clothing are for kids around

Tight fitting, short clothes have been the choice for many women today. Sandelands states that “sex… is the mainspring of our social life” (7). In social situations, many women dress to tease the male mind, but some males can mistake a woman’s choice of clothing for a chance at satisfying sexual urges. Based on studies given and research, what is considered appropriate for social settings could endanger women’s lives. Rape is an example of miscommunication between what a woman really intended with her clothes and what a man thinks she is implying.

Fashion has always dictated what gender stereotypes should wear and how they should present themselves to the world with their fashion, these rules and ideals are constantly changing and reversing, occasionally blurring the lines between the two. Gender roles have lessened and obscured in modern society due to subcultures and immediate availability of clothing, the gender ideals do however still exist and designers often heavily rely on these assumptions. Advertising companies often use these gender stereotypes to promote their clients' clothing as well which, in turn, only serves to strengthen traditional ideas of what men and women should wear. In this essay I aim to discuss the ever changing gender divide and how fashion reacts to

As the temperature rises, so do hemlines and the suspension rate. Students get suspended for violating school dress codes by wearing outfits that ‘show too much skin.’ One can argue that revealing clothing is distracting, but some families and students agree that school dress code implementations end up just shaming girls. Dress codes, the epitome of high school, teach girls to act ashamed, not modest. According to most school boards that come up with the dress code, the outfits young women wear come across as too distracting for their peers, especially men, and make it unable for women to be viewed by the public with dignity and respect. Everyday, school dress codes target females—especially females that are more developed.

In advertising, companies tend to use images in which they believe will help to promote and sell their product. One of the most common techniques that is seen in today’s society is the stereotypical portrayal of women, who tend to pose rather promiscuously as seen in Figure One. These types of images portray women as sex objects or as submissive housewives to their husbands. This comes into context with the advertising in which American Apparel portrays. American Apparel has drawn a lot of attention for their marketing techniques as well as advertising.

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,

In our society, there are norms of what is considered to be feminine and what is to be considered masculine, but how are these norms constructed? Through the use of toys, books, and clothing, children are socialized into their “appropriate” gender. These objects provide influence over behavior and appearance, showing boys and girls what is appropriate for each gender. After some investigation it was found that the toys, books, and clothing that children use not only foster the norms of gender behavior and appearance, but also construct gender roles in their young minds.

From the beginning of our existence on this planet we have seen the evolution of the human through the pass of the years; an example of this is the development of clothing. As we know, clothing distinguishes us from other cultures and other people. Since the 19th century, our country has experienced difficult situations, for example the Great Depression which caused a high increase of poor people leading many people being poor without food, house, money, cloth,etc. all of those problems lead to didn’t have enough money to buy clothes tailored to their size. Instead the upper class were able to buy high quality clothes.

Today’s fashion trends, such as leggings, yoga pants, shorter skirts, booty shorts, form-fitting shirts, and spaghetti straps, have sparked controversy in schools. They have been banned from a great many. In my school, leggings, shorts, skirts, yoga pants, tank tops and off-the-shoulder tops were banned for girls. This

Through clothing, toys, children are negatively influenced by the stereotypes that accompany them. In clothing stores around Canada, the apparel of young boy's and girl's is stereotypical. Seen immediately in clothing stores is the extreme contrast between the two sections. The girl's section is filled with an abundance of sparkles, sequins, flowers, and pink on all articles of clothing. The boy's section is the

Clothing is mandatory in most places in the country. People often choose items they love, never stopping to think about what their choices say about their personality. Don't let this happen. As many places now offer custom printed items, a person can have an apparel item they love at less than what they may imagine.

The Years between the 1950’s and 1960’s was an explosive time in fashion. The 50’s represented an out coming of the new generation. People began to gain their own personal style and appearance, influenced by films and singers (“Vintage Fashion”). Their styles incorporated leather, jeans, corduroy, and the ballet shoes for the girls. Men’s wear began to drastically change. Men would wear a leather jacket, with jeans that narrowed at the bottom, and a simple t-shirt (Peacock 210-211). This was the first time in history that jeans were not just worn by the working class but by all men (“Brief History”). The man’s lust for flesh grew during this time, so women’s skirts began to get shorter and the bikini was invented. Clothes were made to glorify the female body and emphasize every curve. It wasn’t until the Barbie doll was created in the late 50’s that young girls began to have a separate fashion from their mothers. Young girls would wear sweaters with full skirts or pants

Leaving the 2016 idea of each sex has there set identity of clothing a future idea of everyone can wear any type of clothing. Women’s line will consist of some of the same, keeping lots of the material in the store unisex besides sizing for the clothing. Making the line have pants, dresses (similar to the men’s shirts), shirts. The whole line men’s and women’s will be of flat colors and little print on them. Transitioning to further in the future the clothing will have box logo designs on them bringing back a look from the late 1990s. While this clothing is all recycled items from the world too used clothing items.