Essay about How Anna Cora Mowatt Fashioned Her Fashion

The social norms and values of the 1940’s are clearly stated in the play. It is easy to seam that Tom and Laura do not live proper lives for young men

Compare and contrast with the fashion style by Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano, they both wanted to complete change in ways of fashion no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with bold, sexy designs. For Westwood, she has established her own unusual fashion style, since she exhibited her works in 1972. Her style at this point of punk was remarkable-platinum blondes spiked hair, pale skin with dark lipstick, and wonderful little kits with outsized bondage boot. Krell said “Vivienne not only redefined a period of fashion, she also defined a generation” Watson (2013, p8) argues that Westwood’s fashion is a movement of “thought liberation” effect the past also the future. For John Galliano,

Througout the story we hear about this elegant lifestyle with “a state room and a carriage,” “tea served by uniformed maids,” “elegant silk slip gowns.” The narrator is the only one in the family that isn’t living the glamorous life in NY. She is living in a flat with cockroaches and a mattress on the floor. She is the one who breaks the pattern by living a humble life. She is also the only one described as going to an event with a date. “We went to studio 54.” She is the first one who isn’t going to functions and has tea served in the afternoon.

In the story, A Pair of Silk Stockings, by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Sommers comes into the possession of the modern equivalent of 400 dollars. This becomes the prime motivation for Mrs. Sommers shopping spree over purchasing items her family desperately needs. Mrs. Sommers is left to balance desires of wealth and luxury and responsibilities as a mother and wife; only to succumb to her deepest desires in the form of silk stockings. Mrs. Sommers loses control as she gave into the temptation that she could not “move in the direction of the bargain counter”; she only worries about herself and the day of luxury her funds could afford her. Just as quickly as she spent money, she also forgot the “plans in her mind” she had the night prior on how “she seemed her way clearly toward a proper and judicious use of the money”. For Mrs. Sommers the money was a temporary distraction from a life of poverty that she replaced with one of riches and luxury; when she saw an opportunity improve her life

This week’s reading focus on changing gender roles in the 1950’s through culture, and political upheaval. In the African Girl from Paris, gender, and the role of women shows a view of women to be subservient her husband and follow what he says. However, that did not really happen in the play. Rather the play shows there was a change in the view of gender shown through Cecilia who does what she wants and does not listen to her husband. Ultimately, John expects her to follow his every command, and Cecilia does not want to live like that, given following Johns command ended in the death of Monique. While the play shows gender through defended roles, fashion allows for another two stories about gender to develop. Fashion tells two stories of national

In this time period, women were the objects that men could ogle over, buy, and use to their liking. She ends saying, "Now as then the theater apparatus is geared to profit a pleasure, and overwhelmingly controlled by males" (Diamond 536). This is still happening today. Women get tight fitting or revealing costumes, they parade themselves onstage for people to see. While the theatre has changed and transformed we still have this sexualized female role. This article can help us look at the theatre today because we can take it and use it to analyze more recent works of theatre. A lot of new theatre focuses on being fresh and trendy and while this is great that we are breaking away from the mold, there are still hints of influence from other writers. While both women and men are a big part of the theatre most business people are men, and even though the theatre is an art it is also a business. This article can influence us in the modern day to look at all aspects of theatre and find out what is actually being done and being influenced by old writers or old

Haulman’s use of fashion as a lens into larger issues in eighteenth-century British North America is innovative and useful because fashion acts as both a destabilizing and stabilizing agent for political, social, and gender hierarchies. Her emphasis on fashion’s destabilization of hierarchies comes across most clearly in her sections on class. The upper class idealized fashion as a marker of clear class distinctions in which they demonstrated their wealth and privilege with expensive and often imported dress. However, middle and lower class people could emulate the upper class and blur class lines by adopting elite fashions. The elites at the time saw this adoption of elite fashion as both emulation and a threat to their power, but

Although the author’s intention is to entertain the audience just like every play would, however he also isn’t just entertaining the audience because his intention shows that he is more interested in showing the audience about the structure of the class system. The play is set at the turn of the century and is centered on a wealthy family who are successful and prosperous at a time of poverty for many. They are oblivious to this, and given the fact that the play was

Marshall’s aunt spent a great deal of her time traveling and obtained the suit during one of her visits to Paris in the late 1940’s. (Marshall) She came from a wealthy southern family that owned a dairy business in Arkansas. (Marshall) The piece was tailor made to fit her and as far as is known there is only one of these pieces made to date. (Marshall) The aunt never married and always traveled either by herself or with a family member. (Marshall) “She was a very independent woman and I think that is why she never married.” (Marshall) She did not conform to the social norms of marriage and was independent following the trend of women’s empowerment during the 1940’s. She, like her suit, was individual and

Blanche and Stanley have opposing models of human behaviour; Blanche is excited by the prospect of self-alteration, insisting “Yes, clothes are my passion!” while Stanley argues,“Look at these feathers and furs that she [preens] herself in! What's this? A solid gold dress, I believe!” Although superficial, donning ostentatious jewelry and clothing can be transformative for one’s character and allow fluidity of identity.

Transition into the Renaissance and Elizabethan Era’s showed promising changes when it came to theatre, and the lives and many actors. These performances were all male based and showed very little involvement with women in the theatre. This is because women were not allowed to participate in the theatre. Some people might have been afraid, others might presume due to the social status, that it would be possibly foolish of them to do such a deed and frown upon them doing so. Looking at the differences between the theatre and the role of the woman in the renaissance, there is a contradiction that women did participate in theatre. Although women were not permitted to participate in theatre, research shows that women were indeed participating in

The play tells the story about a family who represents the conventional American society of the late 1940s. Right after the World War II, the American society was living a period marked by a feeling of prosperity, by an anxiety for money and for new things, and by a family conservatism, among others. This book perfectly reflects the negative consequences derived from the differences between the family’s dreams and the harsh reality. A clear example of that frustration is the protagonist, Willy Loman.

She is confronted by the Guardians of the Revolution for wearing the Western clothing and almost gets arrested. Like any teenager who receives cool, new clothes from their parents, she wants to immediately enjoy wearing them. Also, she has only known freedom and has been taught by her parents that it is OK to express herself with clothing. Rather than being a spoiled teenager, rebelling against the Fundamentalists, she is simply a teenager expressing herself and trying to enjoy herself in her new clothes.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1950’s-based drama ‘All About Eve’ explores the similarities and differences between the characters of Eve and Margo - two women dreaming of similar ambitions, and yet are depicted as vastly contrasting individuals. In comparison to each other, Eve and Margo’s general behaviour, mannerisms and character traits are distinctly separate. Each woman distinctly struggles with their own issues, such as Margo’s fixation with the threat of her own age and Eve’s endeavour to belong with those she admires and the world of the theatre. The motivations and boundaries of the two are depicted as clearly different from each other, where Eve is revealed as a ruthless liar who would “do much more” to get what she wants, in comparison

Historically, multiple styles of dressing have been created during the last several decades, which played an important role in modern fashion in the UK. Everyone has a different and unique dressing style in their general life. Some styles are influenced in vintage styles which is attributing to the deep effects of old vogue, and another group of dressing styles are inclined into the fresh element. According to those different styles some of them are even evolved in the milestones in fashion history.