Skirt

Vella smoothed out the skirt of her dress. Glinda had given her yet another dress (this one one was white). She had insisted on providing the two kids with clean clothes each day they stayed. It had been a whole week since the wicked witches had been defeated (no one was really sure what happened to Evanora, although some swore that they saw an old hag in Evanora’s dress being carried off into the sky) and still Glinda had no idea how to get them home. Seeing as though the two were living in the

Images are all around us, and while some are helpful many can destroy the image that is our existence. These negative images are projected at us through media, and the media is all around us, making it at the very least difficult if not impossible to ignore them. A great analysis of the effect of these negative images on young women is a film titled Beyond Killing Us Softly. The third in a series of films on the advertising industry, body image, and women, Beyond Killing Us Softly is a 30-minute

Introduction France in the 18th witnessed a huge modification in the aesthetic standard in dress for women, whether in terms of material, style and appearance (Rothstein, 1999: 2). French fashion had successively experienced several distinctive stages. For instance, Rococo (luxury court-style showing femininity, slimness and mannerism) was in stark contrast to the Baroque (characteristic with dignity and elegance). However, since the 1870s, the Enlightenment and the French Evolution had exerted a

Tattoos are bad. This is something I have been told all my life. My father is a very authoritative figure. He stands at 6’3” and is a cut-to-the-shit type of guy. He makes sure that his views are heard even if it as trivial as talking through a movie to point out an error it made. He is not a fan of anything permanent on someone’s face or body; however, if his view is still unknown to someone, all he or she would have to do is bring up tattoo plans and his view will come out shortly after. One

1. Why is your skirt safety pinned? The skirt? Oh, it doesn't belong to me. It's an old one of my sister's. I think she ripped it, but it wouldn't have fit me quite right from the start. Do you like it? I thought it would suit the evening, and Hazel wanted to see me in it. She never wears it anymore. 2. Who are you dancing with? do you know them well? He's a good dancer! An acquaintance of Hazel's. I only met him tonight. It's all just in good fun. 3. How often do you dance? Are you comfortable

Many people do not like change. They wish things would just stay the same. Change, however, is inevitable. In Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty is about a girl that spends her summer at a beach house with brother, mom, her mom’s friend, mom’s friend’s children. She is in love with one of her mom’s friends sons. They all go to a beach house every summer, and this summer things begin to change. She wants things to stay exactly like they were in the previous summers. A theme for The Summer I Turned

"Did you see what she was wearing; no wonder he assumed she wanted it." Does this sound familiar to anyone? It does to me. This is just a glimpse of some words, and actions, that are only the tip of the ice-berg; we call 'rape culture'. A lot of people are unaware this sort of language, or behavior, even goes on. Even more people are aware of these types of things, yet they don’t find them inappropriate, or see anything wrong with a little harmless joking. The fact is rape culture affects our life

Of Silk Saris and Mini Skirts: South Asian Girls Walk the Tightrope of Culture by Handa is about how the issues of race, ethnicity, and culture revolves around the lives of the South Asian women living in Canada. It is not only about how those specific issues affect their lives but also the impact of influence that others have on their lives. In the following book report, I will discuss the three main issues that the South Asian women face, the arguments that Handa makes, the theoretical perspective

uniform policy. Girls had to wear grey skirts that were no more than one inch above the knee. The height of the skirts wasn't really enforced too much, until several girls started getting called out for rolling theirs up and wearing them “too short.” Due to this, our principal decided to enforce the rule more strongly, and hired someone to stand in the lobby with a ruler and measure the length of the skirts of all the girls coming into school. If the skirt was more than one inch above the knee, parents

As I scrambled to get to an upright position, I stepped on my skirt and heard a snap. My heart skipped