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Dinnigan possesses a common trademark of femininity, with dresses of chiffon, lace and tulle, eloquently tailored to perfection. Her designs regularly feature beading are constructed from the finest delicate sheer & lace fabrics. Silk organza and other lightweight silks are a favourite of Dinnigans. She manages to achieve all this with a suggestive rather than revealing style, which enables her garments to communicate a sensuality and individuality. Dinnigan depends heavily upon her own imagination, creating and materializing fashion in ways her imagination wants things to come to light.

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” (Fashion Quotes 1) The words once spoken by Henry David Thoreau are politically correct. People often look at Elizabethan‘s choice of fashion and ridicule everything about it from the hair, down to the stockings. As it appears, fashion has always been a broad topic of discussion in the world. Whether it is NY Fashion Week or a Macy’s fashion show, fashion is something that has always been an eye catcher. Fashion has been around for many years, and whether we know it or not, Elizabethan fashion has influenced the way modern fashion is today.

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Vera Wang is the face behind the most exquisite bridal wear every girl desires to have. She creates beautiful designs with elegant grace and is “arguably the most prominent designer of bridal wear in America” (Biography 2014). Wang first started off as a senior fashion editor at Vogue and then a design director for Ralph Lauren (Biography 2014). Later on, she started her own line that became the most elegant and sophisticated clothing line in the bridal wear industry. Even the most high-profile celebrities want her clothing such as Uma Thurman, Khloé and Kim Kardashian, and Michelle Obama (Biography 2014)!

With this new line of clothes, women are able to be first with not only athletic ability, but daily life.

The tides of selfish desires are waning, never lasting for the wrong run. However, if they grow, and progress into some grander want. Such a truth is evident in many relationships, whether they be friendship or romance. In the movie The Painted Veil, this take on connections of people is further explored in an intelligent way, although not in a satisfying way. By exploring the themes of this movie, we can see how this bit of wisdom is not only explored, but demonstrated in a way that allows us as the audience to see it in action.

A veil is a piece of sheer material worn by women to conceal their faces, that very piece of material symbolizes sacredness. In traditional Christian religion the veil is worn by the bride in white on her wedding day as she approaches her groom at the alter. He uncovers her face at the end of the ceremony and they kiss. Once that tradition is done the bride and the groom live their lives together without her ever having to wear the veil again. However, In the Muslim religion predominantly in Saudi Arabia the veil is also considered sacred, but used for different purposes. For the women of Saudi Arabia wearing the veil is part of their everyday life. In fact it is forbidden for them not to wear it, their veil is worn routinely. The women of Saudi should know that living behind the veil is a form of abuse toward them. A life in front of the veil is more enjoyable and liberating. Just because they walk in the street without their veil does not make them promiscuous nor should they be punished for it.

In The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, the idea of the Veil is a dominant theme throughout the book. The Veil is a social phenomenon that describes the divide between black and white Americans through social and economic issues. To demonstrate these issues Du Bois utilizes vivid imagery to cement the abstract concept that is the Veil. He likens it by bringing together visions of the sea and land, exploring the parallels of John and John, personifying it into his own son and contrasting the city and rural village. Through this exploration of imagery, Du Bois creates a concrete image of the Veil and it’s warring sides.

Fashion has been around ever since ancient times, since the time of the Romans, it survived the world wars and is yet today a business with rapid changes. Fashion started off as an art form, a way for the riches to show their social status with unique and innovative designs that only they could afford. It was a way to separate the social classes of the society. In this paper I will include the creator of haute couture, and how the following designers developed couture, as well as having leading names in today’s ready-to-wear industry. The list is long, but I chose to focus on the three most important designers of the modern fashion industry.

Ridley’s “How I Came to Love the Veil and Aziz’s “Me, Myself and My Hijab” both are talking about the same topic but have a different way of approaching it with their tone. Ridley’s tone is very bitter and angry trying to make her point she doesn’t hold back on what she is saying and Aziz’s tone was formal and laidback it was more of a storytelling and talking about her experiences. The use of tone changes the significance of how both essays are delivering their story because Ridley’s is giving her opinion while Aziz’s is showing you and allows you to have your own opinion about it.

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.

Strinati (2009: 36) states popular culture is a culture in which all kinds of meaning battle fighting for the meaning of people's hearts. Pop culture is often termed as a culture of practical, pragmatic, and the instant that characterizes the pattern of life. Pop culture for veiled women clothes carried by the mass media will certainly give meaning shift how Muslim clothing style or veiled women past and present. The growing fashion clothing and hijab, then the shift is also the meaning of the hijab (Pambudi, 2013:

The veil that the minister wears in "The Ministers Black Veil", by Nathanial Hawthorne represents the emphasis on man's inner reality, and those thoughts and feelings which are not immediately obvious. As Hawthorne explored this inner nature, he found the source of dignity and virtue, and certain elements of darkness. When the minister first walks out of his home wearing the veil, everyone is astonished. This one man in this village decides to be a nonconformist and wear this veil without explanation. No one understands why the minister would wear such a veil for no reason at all. This is where all the assumptions begin to linger. All of the villagers have a story for why the veil is there. These people are

Victoria's Secret netted $500,000 in its first year of business, enough to back the extension from a home office and distribution center to four new store areas and a mail-request operation. By 1980, Raymond had included two more San Francisco stores at 2246 Union Street and 115 Wisconsin Street. By 1982, the fourth store (still in the San Francisco range) was included at 395 Sutter Street. Victoria's Secret stayed at that 395 Sutter Street area until 1990, when it moved to the bigger Powell Street facing of the Westin St. Francis. In April 1982, Raymond conveyed his twelfth list; every list cost $3 (comparable to $7.36 in 2015). Inventory deals now represented 55% of the organization's $7 million yearly deals. The Victoria's Secret stores

Of particular interest, and a perfect piece to fit the genre, with two holes on both sides, and grommets encircling the cutouts, is a white shift dress. While this dress is not what one would call wearable, it certainly makes a statement, and one that Courrèges made well. Sensible women probably would not have worn this dress due to the cutout placement unless they were in favor of foregoing their undergarments. Courrèges utilized vinyl, pvc, leather, and an aggregate of burnished materials in order to create his vision which supplemented his modern, futuristic vision. His cloth of choice was gabardine, wool, and tweed. His background in architecture lent to his attention to detail and his dedication to construction.