The Patch Era

Decent Essays
Do bell bottoms sound familiar? My final argument is about the physical changes since our parents were our age. I asked my parents about what type of clothes they wore while being teens. They stated that they truly did have ripped jeans, but that era was known as the Patch Era. That’s right, patches of older day emojis were added on the jeans, making the modern day style contrast with earlier styles. So, why do parents get mad if our jeans are ripped? The world may never know. But besides the extinct denims, the hairstyles then contradict the hairstyles now. I feel like the motto then could have been “Think Large.” When I look at pictures, they show large, crazy hair, while the style now stands at thin and long. Apart from the clothing and

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    In Carla Hall’s article on leggings she states leggings are a ridiculous topic to argue on, however there is some truth in this. I believe that this topic is important because the article states “Allen contented that parents needed a reality check” which is true because most parents are very strict on what they want their daughters to wear, then in addition to that it also states “So many of them want their daughters to become scientist and college presidents, but they don’t want them to act appropriately in the educational setting that will prepare them for those intellectual professions.”…

    • 100 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Lianne George wrote an article “Why Are We Dressing Our Daughters Like This?” it’s about how todays trends are including sexualization in 5 and up little girls clothing. The article addresses sex in American culture and how it effects the youth. How parents, television, music, and fashion are leading the way how kids are dressing. It tells how adults are dressing like little kids and kids are dressing like adults in order to meet today’s social norm.…

    • 406 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fashion Stereotypes

    • 748 Words
    • 3 Pages

    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”.…

    • 748 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Presently, it is hard to find people who actually have an original and unique sense of style. For example, young girls will rarely ever show off their interests and hobbies. They would rather express attitude in the way they dress. I must admit that it is difficult to avoid the temptation of dressing like everybody else. Clothes that are meant to be childish and innocent have been transformed into a grown-up and sexy style.…

    • 386 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fashion has always been a clear marker for change in history. In the nineteenth century, many change occurred: new means of transportations, changing work environment and new societal demeanour could be observed in New York City. The advent of ready-made clothing brought the different classes closer to one another and this change in style reflected the changing mores of society concerning the place of women in the city. The growing industry, opening of shopping malls and the subsequent changing habits helped define the “new woman” as their position in society and toward the men shifted. For starters fashion had always been a means to show one’s status to others, with the apparition of shopping malls and the rising of ready-made clothing industry people could now purchase…

    • 730 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why Tweens Are Bad

    • 1379 Words
    • 6 Pages

    When I was a teenager there was no booty shorts or teenage lingerie or a make-up line for girls and teens. Now stores are targeting all of theses things for younger girls making them grow up so fast or look like they are grown. I remember having my eight-year-old niece over and when she arrived to my house her face was full of makeup and she was wearing a bra under her little tank top and her booty shorts. I wiped her face off with a wet towel and told her she was to young to wear makeup and that she should be a little girl and enjoy it.…

    • 1379 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In every year the style changes and sometimes it goes all round to the old styles until today the fashion is the “Skinny” jeans or “Super Skinny”; this fashion trend started when people traveled to the USA…

    • 1547 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The time period The Great Gatsby took place, during the nineteen twenties , appearances and emotion appealed more in popular culture. Thus, in order to be popular, one would need to place emphasis on these values. For example, as a result of sexual oppression in previous years, advertising companies appealed to women with an increase of provocative garments; demonstrating a shift from traditional values to modern popular values, women cut their hairs short, wore beautiful expensive hats, intricate dresses, and new lines of makeup. Examples of these fashion trends are respectively, the Jean Arthur Hairstyle , the Matron Hat, the Basque Dress, and the popularization of red lipstick.…

    • 415 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As a little child, my parents would try a variety of styles, from twist to little pigtail buns, so my younger sister and I could look presentable. After my parents struggled…

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    From the roaring 20’s to the tech savvy 2000’s, there has been advancements in technology, cars, music, and dance have morphed and changed society to the way it is today, but those aren’t the only things that changed, the ‘perfect body shape’ changed as well. In the 20’s it was boyish and flat, but now it is toned with curves and many people aren’t born with a six pack and 23-inch waist. If individuals don’t meet these body requirements, then they are unwanted and undesirable to the people who do meet the requirements or people who expect them from other people. ‘Shulman, who has edited Vogue since 1992, said readers did not want to buy the magazine to see the same thing they see when they look in the mirror. Saying the most popular cover stars…

    • 236 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Victorian fashion was very conservative and restrictive. The era of the 1920s have been given many names, the era often referred to as “The Jazz Age.” Jazz became the anthem of the era, and girls began to dance. However, the fashion from previous eras was hot, heavy, and restricted movement. Girls began wearing short skirts and dresses, often revealing their knees, shoulders, and arms: parts of the body that had been taboo to reveal before.…

    • 1503 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the chapter, “What Does It Mean to Be Human,” from the book, Ten Questions, Joel Charon describes the characteristics that define human beings and make them different from other species. Namely, human beings are defined by our social and cultural nature. (32) According to Charon, being social is essential to our survival because our identity is dependent on how we socialize with others. Charon defines socialization as the “the process by which the various representatives of societyㄧparents, teachers, political leaders, religious leaders, the news mediaㄧteach people the ways of society and, in so doing form their basics qualities”(34).…

    • 564 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dress Code On Young Women

    • 1361 Words
    • 6 Pages

    With messages like those examined by Zurbriggen, it can hardly be considered unreasonable for young girls to be doing what they see that society will reward them for and with models and standards like these as such a pervasive part of our day-to-day lives, what are girls expected to think when they try to decide what to wear to school in the morning? Many of the complaints from students affected by these policies that I’ve witnessed personally have been in regard to the weather (e.g.: shorts and tank tops) or the comfort level of the offending garments (leggings and yoga pants) and I began to wonder what the effect of adults dictating appropriate expressions of gender and sexuality may be on young women. Does this ubiquitous sexualization…

    • 1361 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Unfair Dress Codes

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages

    “Telling girls to ‘cover up’ just as puberty hits teaches them that their bodies are inappropriate, dangerous, violable, subject to constant scrutiny and judgement, including by adults they trust. Nor does it help them understand the culture’s role in wardrobe choices” - Peggy Orenstein. This is relevant because most females in schools are subjected to unfair dress codes, making them more self conscience about their appearance and not allowing them to freely express themselves. In schools dress codes are biased toward teenage girls. More females are sent out of class in a month than the number of boys in a year.…

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    George Hofman Biography

    • 1538 Words
    • 7 Pages

    January 7th started as a normal day for my parents. That day my dad George had to be at work early in the morning so they got up around 4 that morning. George my brother who was 1 and 1/2 at the time went over to a friend’s before my dad headed to work. My mother Jessica wasn 't due for another 15 days, so she was doing her normal morning routine when unexpectedly her water-broke.…

    • 1538 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays