The Characteristics Of Fashion : The Story Of Dorcas

She often visited hospitals and homes where the poor and sick were found. Her activities quickly attracted followers who helped her in her mission to serve the poor and sick.

She writes “And here I cannot but take notice of the strange providence of God in preserving the heathen...”

Have you ever wondered what people in the Elizabethan Era wore? Fashion was just as important in those days as it is to some people today. What people were wearing mattered to others, and even the government. During the Elizabethan Era clothing, accessories, and cosmetics were all a part of daily life.

Women, God's most amazing creation stunningly beautiful yet thoughtful gentle yet strong, a delight she is Home, a house without her. An affectionate mother, a sensitive sister Caring daughter to elders Loving wife, bread maker, Bread earner when need arises A role many she plays It cannot be defined. Immense strength, Sparkling smile bears many stings A hope she holds high Amidst many trifles. She lovingly bonds the family Her wit and grit Dictates the world In times of calamity.

She was known to have stud up to the Puritans of the time and protest a new anti-Quakers law. She is also famous for her set example of determination and sacrifice.

She had the courage to show women that they can be more than just a housewife. She went out and helped Lewis and Clark and she took care of her child at the same time. She was sick and kidnapped yet still managed to be a good person and change the world for women.

She supported her family financially and learned skills that were highly sought after allowing her to work much longer than most women were able to. She paved the way for women today to be able to balance a work life

Jacks had been eavesdropping on the two young ladies, and he wished to make them feel better. “Hello,” he smiled warmly as he walked up to Kate and Darby, “Kate, there are still many people stuck inside that overcrowded airplane, and I want you to help me rescue the other trapped people.” He immediately saw a change in Kate’s face. Kate was someone who needed action and constant movement to stay positive, and Mr. Jacks knew this was just the right thing to help her. “Come on, we need to get the others out.” he continued, “Kate, I want you to come with me, and Darby,” Mr. Jacks turned to Darby, “I want you to stay out here with my dog. If we don’t come out in ten minutes, find a mirror and come in after us. So will you two join me?”

For over years’ people showed how much they appreciated her. The people let her know how much reading and studying the book have given them a new spiritual sense of the Bible and of their unchangeable relationship to God (Christian

She has a heart on fire and her feet moving for God. Her faith has immersed her since the day she was

activity takes priority over her relationship with Christ. Lastly, there is contempt in her heart

For the Grandmother Jesus needed to be her saving grace, she tried very hard to get the Misfit to let Jesus be the one to save him, but she could not. One critic makes a comment and says “Her spiritual transformation from a self-sufficient woman to that of a praying woman dependent on Jesus peaks with her compassion for her murderer right before her physical death. She even suggests to the Misfit that he pray” (Kelley

Fashion is simply a reaction to its utility, a condition of our own making. Religion is just playing the same game, both methods of control, obsessed with youth and beauty, with devout followings and cultish aromas. No matter ones subscription to its doctrine we are subjugated to its authority. A relationship defined by its abusive allure and false realities. Religion and fashion are no more divine then that of an exclusive club, full of passion and illusions, a simulacra, that some even consider paradise.

The Elizabethan Era is the period during reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) in England. It is also time during English literature, poetry, and theatre flourished and the famous composer, William Shakespeare. Fashion, basically, was part of the social order and maintained by a law related to it called “Statutes of Apparel”. The law stating the type of clothes and colours those allowed to own and wear.

Clothing has been heavily criticized by many, and in particular, philosophers. In Karen Hanson’s piece “Dressing Down Dressing Up--The Philosophers Fear of Fashion”, the author notes that there has been a long standing tradition of what she refers to as a philosophic hostility toward fashionable dress (1990, p. 107). Socrates was critical of how clothing resulted in a desire for things in the physical realm (Hanson 1990, p. 114). As told by Plato, Socrates believed that concern for clothes and other bodily ornaments filled people with nonsense and distracted them from the activity of thinking (Hanson 1990, p. 114; Seery 1996, p. 53). On the topic of fashionable dress, Immanuel Kant wrote that it was “not properly a matter of taste, but a matter of mere vanity in order to appear distinguished, and a matter of competition in order to surpass others in it” (Kant 2006, p. 143). He defined fashionable dress under the title of vanity because he believed there was no inner worth in its intentions and thought that the people who “slavishly” followed fashion were foolish (Kant 2006, pp. 142-143). Thorstein Veblen was critical of the pointlessness of fashionable clothing (Wilson 2011, p. 330). In The Theory of the Leisure Class, Veblen wrote that clothing was a way to identify differences between social class, advertise a person’s wealth and position in society, and to reinforce the prestige of the upper-class (English 2013, p. 212). He felt that trying to