Morning dress

In the first social setting, the people reactions to me walking around in my boxers was normal. No one seemed to mind when I asked, is it alright that I am in my boxers. In fact, most of the males on the floor walk around in their boxers. In an all male environment, most males break this folkway of walking around in boxers and don’t seem to care when other males do the same. I felt social excepted the whole time while I was conducting this experiment on the all male floor, and did not experience…

Today I try on my wedding dress. Maura and I walk across the black tarmac to the all-glass storefront, Dana's Bridal Warehouse scrawled in giant letters on the glass. I regret wearing a black t-shirt today. Even in the short distance from the car to the door, the dark material absorbs the summer sun and instantly makes my armpits and under my boobs sweat. A bell tinkles overhead as we step into the air conditioning and we breathe a sigh of relief. Maura pulls out a small compact from her…

Dress: noun; an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece. Think of a dress, any type of dress. Maybe it’s a lavender sundress, billowing in the summer breeze while she. Perhaps it’s an elegant black ball gown, draped from head to toe complimenting her hourglass figure. It might be a little red cocktail dress, short and sweet but ready for a night out on the town,. Dresses are clothing items made to look elegant and dazzling, to make others feel envious.…

chance. Coming, here has changed the person I am. I was able to educate myself, I was able to think for myself, I was able to dress the way I wanted, and that has brought me to believe that I would not be where I am today if I stayed in Iraq. I am forever grateful, that I am able to speak English, that I have been able to empower myself by educating myself, being able to dress the way I am. This is my new…

In the book titled Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso, foreword by Marjorie Garber, she has compiled her memoir of her life after she ran away, dressed as a man, and bounded around from job to job, town to town, as she saw fit for the next twenty-six years. Her adventures across Spain and to the new world filled her life with many experiences. From working for her uncle, to becoming a keeper of records and sales, working with and even killing her own brother, as well as multiple arrests,…

Cultural Inventory Race When a person looks at me the first thing that they notice is the color of my skin. Yes! It is apparent that I am a female, but how can one truly be sure that I was a born of this gender? However, when one looks at the color of my skin, it leaves no doubt that I am African American. Since the predominant culture in the United States incorporates communicating in English, practices Protestant Christian religion, and having European heritage, traits and attribute I do…

but to represent their frivolity with disseminating rumors around the group and country club. Meanwhile, Ernie ends up wearing a classic tux with a white apron and Cookie wears a gold, 1920s Russian-style dress of which she is picked on for wearing. The associations with the apron and the older dress signify them as the second-class citizens of this group, serving the rest of the couples dinner, drinks, and being mistaken as the…

Annette had casually dismissed the guard from his duty of watching over Leonard in his cell. She stated, “My parents are having dinner in the dining hall, so that way isn 't possible, but there is at the end of the corridor a back way, it leads through the sewers, and we will get out at Denna 's Diner.” Leonard looked at her and responded, “I don 't see a princess dressed the way you are dressed going very far in the sewers, don 't you think your gown will get in the way and ruined?” Annette…

When you ask ones own personal definition of beauty, one might say “Pleasing to the human eye.” Society’s definition of beauty is most commonly perceived through appearance. Our society constantly changes the requirements or extends the definition and the meaning of the word ‘beauty’. American beauty fades away every few decades and turns into something new and iconic. Women in the 20’s turned the original “no skin showing’ beauty to a promiscuous new style. Likewise, women in the 70’s turned…

Once upon a time, there lived a thing called subculture; these were music and fashion orientated groups that contravened the mainstream culture. Whilst the Mods zipped around on their Lambrettas and Vespas, the leather coated rockers drove about on their self-modified motorbikes. These two rival groups engendered a major conflict in 1960s Britain, meanwhile the nonconforming, flower-wearing hippies across the pond demanded that the troops were withdrawn from the Vietnam War. There were skinheads…