Are fashion trends going overboard? Put This on a Billboard: Droopy Pants Can Kill. In chapter 8 Clyde Haberman writes an article about droopy pants and how this fashion tread has led to death. “He ran to the fire escape but the low-slung pants he was wearing fell down… he tripped over them and landed dead in the backyard of the building”. Since the early 90s we notice how droopy pants came into fashion as a way to symbolize “hood life” or “thug life”, in some scenarios they said this trend started in jail. This same trend has led the death to many young man and have arisen a lot of stereotypes about black men. Where black men who are seen with droopy pants can get arrested for looking like bad people or people who are drug dealers or do crime,
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In chapter 8, Patricia Hunt-hunt talks about Dressing for Life and Death. The chapter talks about how important people in our lives can play a part in how we dress or why we dress the way we might dress the way we do. In addition, to how at a young age, parents dress their kids based on how they see themselves or their status in life. “Dress and appearance are pertinent components in child development”. What a child wears in their childhood years can help them understand a lot about themselves and the people around them. Dress and an individual’s style of dressing do change over a person’s life span. As a child they have parents or important adults around them who dress them in clothes they like, but as they get older fashion styles and trends get old and individuals dress style change from young adult hood to when they married with kids, even in death. Death even has its own fashion. Based on different race and religion people dress differently when someone they know dies. Personally from my experience being from an African decent, I do know that when someone dies, everyone that was related to the person who is dead must wear white for a whole month to symbolize respect to the dead. It is amazing how dress has created a bond in life and even in
In chapter 8, Patricia Hunt-hunt talks about Dressing for Life and Death. The chapter talks about how important people in our lives can play a part in how we dress or why we dress the way we might dress the way we do. In addition, to how at a young age, parents dress their kids based on how they see themselves or their status in life. “Dress and appearance are pertinent components in child development”. What a child wears in their childhood years can help them understand a lot about themselves and the people around them. Dress and an individual’s style of dressing do change over a person’s life span. As a child they have parents or important adults around them who dress them in clothes they like, but as they get older fashion styles and trends get old and individuals dress style change from young adult hood to when they married with kids, even in death. Death even has its own fashion. Based on different race and religion people dress differently when someone they know dies. Personally from my experience being from an African decent, I do know that when someone dies, everyone that was related to the person who is dead must wear white for a whole month to symbolize respect to the dead. It is amazing how dress has created a bond in life and even in