Why is the market targeting the young girls to dress as young adults? And how are these pieces of clothing expressing how the young girl defines their identity? Identity is a set of characteristics that somebody recognizes as belonging uniquely to himself or herself and constituting his or her individual personality for life. As the young girls are trying pursue and proclaim their own identities, they are inclined to look up to young adults they admire in order to search for an identity they want to claim as their own through imitation, as they feel a bit insecure with who they are. As the young girls are trying to fit in today’s society they are being consumed through what they see and known as fashion in order to be identified in a subgroup
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In this essay, Armstrong believed that as we are trying to figure out who we are we have to go through different phase in order for us to feel accepted and wanted, by the way we look and / or by the way we are dressed. Any style of clothes we see in the departmental store for adults, we are also inclined to see the same exact style in the girls side. According to Jo B. Paoletti in her essay “Clothing and Gender in America: Children's Fashions, 1890-1920,” she states that “girls' clothing changed little between infancy and adolescence. Styles remained basically the same; the only change was a gradual lengthening of the skirt. At puberty, girls began to wear their hair arranged in adult fashion and wore dresses identical in style to those of adult women, except in the case of formal …show more content…
This can be harmful the young girl because it adds pressure and stress to the young girl because they have a tendency to model and imitate the characters she observes she can get distorted into what’s real and not real. According to Danah Boyd in her essay “Impression Management in a Networked Setting,” she stated “Teens are struggling to make sense of who they are and how they fit into society in an environment…” Boyd (127). Boyd claims that the teens are having a difficult time trying to fit into society because of all the things that are happening in the environment. Where Elsa Lenz in her essay “Instructional Resources: Dressing Up: Clothing as a Visible Expression of Identity” she claims, “All of these outfits are connected to a specific facet of one’s identity that is marked outwardly through an outfit. In any society, reading clothing is a part of human interaction. Through observation of clothing styles, embroidery techniques, weaving patterns, surface decoration, and body embellishments and modifications (i.e., jewelry, piercings, and tattoos), we make assumptions about a person's identity. Observers can become more fluent in the language of dress as
In this essay, Armstrong believed that as we are trying to figure out who we are we have to go through different phase in order for us to feel accepted and wanted, by the way we look and / or by the way we are dressed. Any style of clothes we see in the departmental store for adults, we are also inclined to see the same exact style in the girls side. According to Jo B. Paoletti in her essay “Clothing and Gender in America: Children's Fashions, 1890-1920,” she states that “girls' clothing changed little between infancy and adolescence. Styles remained basically the same; the only change was a gradual lengthening of the skirt. At puberty, girls began to wear their hair arranged in adult fashion and wore dresses identical in style to those of adult women, except in the case of formal …show more content…
This can be harmful the young girl because it adds pressure and stress to the young girl because they have a tendency to model and imitate the characters she observes she can get distorted into what’s real and not real. According to Danah Boyd in her essay “Impression Management in a Networked Setting,” she stated “Teens are struggling to make sense of who they are and how they fit into society in an environment…” Boyd (127). Boyd claims that the teens are having a difficult time trying to fit into society because of all the things that are happening in the environment. Where Elsa Lenz in her essay “Instructional Resources: Dressing Up: Clothing as a Visible Expression of Identity” she claims, “All of these outfits are connected to a specific facet of one’s identity that is marked outwardly through an outfit. In any society, reading clothing is a part of human interaction. Through observation of clothing styles, embroidery techniques, weaving patterns, surface decoration, and body embellishments and modifications (i.e., jewelry, piercings, and tattoos), we make assumptions about a person's identity. Observers can become more fluent in the language of dress as