Gender Roles And Specific Ways

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

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.

Your _____ depends on whether you were born with distinct male or female genitals and a genetic program that released either male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system.

Women experience the stereotypes society has set everyday. From the blanket people receive as a baby to the toys kids receive, females are always being impacted by gender roles. One of the stereotypes that affect women on a greater scale is being told what clothes they can wear. Often women stumble upon men who disrespect them and tell them they should be wearing clothes specific to females. When in reality, men have no say in what women wear, unlike in Oceania.

Clothing has always been a social representation of who you are as a person. Throughout time clothing has been changing from the time of cavemen when humans wore animal fur and skin to now where you see models wearing diamonds as a shirt. In the 1940’s women stole the scene of fashion introducing a different style of clothing you would never see in today’s fashion world. As the world changes, so does clothing.

different ways in which dress in visual cultural contributes to the formation of feminine gender

The concept of gender and gendered objects have always been connected to traditional views of the gender binary, and to this day this stands true even though society has become more open-minded. The story My Princess Boy, by Cheryl Kilodavis, tells about a young boy who has a love for dressing up in all things pink and traditionally girly. This tale rocks the foundations gender norms in today’s society as well. Throughout the book, the mother of this young boy narrates the experiences of their family pertaining to the “abnormal” gender expression of this child. While My Princess Boy sets its eyes on breaking the barriers of the binary, it only does so by focusing on clothing choices.

Throughout my ‘through the wardrobe’ interview i came across many different themes in which i wanted to explore, one of these themes was the link between gender and dress, how dress can be used to alter or express ones gender. gender is one of the most talked about controversies of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, mainly the fight for equality. gender refers to the socially and culturally constructed differences between a male and a female and fashion is a device that can be used to reject, explore, portray define confirm your gender, sexuality and personality. through dress we can communicate who we are or who we want to be, even the lack of fashion can say something about us. i wish to explore gender boundaries; how they have changed

Gender, something of which cannot be controlled, is a prime factor in the bias of school system based dress codes. Gender, which used to be considered synonymous with sex, is the state of being male or female. It is typically used in reference to social and cultural differences, which ultimately creates gender roles. Gender roles are a set of societal norms that dictate the type of behaviors which are considered acceptable based off a person's gender. Clothing coincides with how males and females are supposed to dress. Unfortunately, gender does affects how dress codes are applied in today’s school systems, and because of gender roles, “...women are held to a particular standard of dress standards that are appropriate for students in general”

Before 1900, the norms on gender to buy clothes affect the designers or decision-makers to design some masculine and feminine clothes and through stressed the qualities of men and female to sell their products. The majority of children learn gender roles from their parents and understand how to categorise themselves by gender since they are three years old (Cahill 1986). Kaiser notes in ‘The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context’ (1990), gender to be a social construction. While clothing is a symbol of gender, which helps us to distinguish male and female (Freeman 2001). Gender norms have been deciding men and women what the type of clothing they should wear (Lorber & Farrell 1991). Traditionally, male and female were expected to wear pants, suits and ties, and skirts and blouses respectively. It also considered the dull colours such as gray to be men, whereas the pink colour is for women (Lorber & Farrell 1991). The themes or pattern of clothes are usually coded by gender, for example, kittens, butterflies and flower designs for women, while turtle snake and frog for men (Schulte 2016). During the Victorian Era, gender roles became specifically defined. People must follow the norms, otherwise, they will be treated as strange (Schulte 2016). So, the corset was designed for women, which physically prevented the expansion of the ribs, abdomen, and waist (Schulte 2016). As they would not be able to keep upright without and they are weaker than men (Summers 2001). On the other hand, suits are male gender symbols (Summers 2001). The clothes features of straight line, neat and simple cut could expose typical masculine characteristics including strength and power, which are marketed (Schulte 2016). For example, the brands used plenty of advertisements such as through the multi-page leaflets and posters to show ten to thirty men wearing different suits, arranged in a landscape or set out in rows, showed the masculine with power, and usually with a title, like 'new styles' (Rose 2010). This advertisement imposed certain gender stereotypes and roles upon men. Therefore, gender norms during the Victorian Era shape the production and consumption of clothes.

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 display and shape identity, and they also hide sexual differences/ private areas. What I wear not only shows if I am male or female, but it also helps me express myself. I have been a “girly girl” my whole life. I like to wear dresses and skirts that are very bright in color. The clothes that I wear show people the type of person I am.

Sex and gender are two significantly emphasized words when looking at fashion and identity as a whole. Just like fashion and clothing, sex and gender are not the same. Sex is determined

Many years in the making fashion has made a very impactful effect on the culture of a nation or region allowing an on looker of the culture to understand many different things about the culture due to their fashion styles. Men and women, throughout the years, have been able to keep a clear distinction between the two genders making clothing for both genders look as if they were for either one of the genders. In any culture there are distinct differences in styles allowing for uniqueness between the genders. Masculinity was a major image that had to be expressed whenever a man would wear men’s clothing displaying rugged and distressed looks, with darker colors, showing

To gain knowledge of how we communicate to others through the way we dress, we have to first understand what identity is. Identity is what we choose to represent ourselves as, be that a gender identity, a sexual identity; it is completely up to the individual as a person to make that choice. Identity forms the basis of one’s pride and being accepted socially only adds to that ego and integrity. The psychology of the matter is the way we dress is more or less based on our moods, habits, inspirations, past, present and future. The character of a person is reflected in the way that they dress, Clothing can act as a simple glance into someone’s life, as we are already know that different clothing can represent different means of culture; Clothes are used a language to communicate with society and to commonly let them know what you want to be viewed as.