Dresses

The roles that individuals serve in a society are not randomly ascribed, but rather achieved through social cultivation. Individuals learn these roles through a process called socialization. According to Conley, specifically Craig Calhoun, “individuals internalize values, beliefs, and norms” (Conley 2013:118) so that they can be efficient members of society. Interactions with others over a period of time allow people to establish and conform to socially constructed gender labels: male or female.…

other group, but primarily had to accomplish all the necessary tasks for it themselves. At one point myself and another member of the group have to go to various boutiques to research the prices of dresses as we were not able to get a solid answer from the other group of what the market price of these dresses were. There were times when the group seemed to be in the norming phase, however slight differences always caused us to revert to storming. Personally I believe the biggest flaw was the…

child growing up, I clearly knew what gender I was. I had a strong sense of what being a girl meant and what being a boy is. I knew that being a girl meant having long hair, wearing dresses, and liking the color pink (in my mind that is what I believe being a girl meant at the time). I remember growing up and wearing dresses and having my legs open and my parents would say to me, “You are a girl and you need to sit like one!” Now that I think of it, what does sitting like a girl even…

The clothes they wore was a statement to the whole world. Rich women in the Elizabethan Era wore big and puffy dresses that required a tight upper body and flowy bottom. One part of the dress stood out the most and that was the over the top collar called a ruff. The ruff started out with a simple ruff at the neck but over time developed into a more elaborate and massive…

practical and provided a higher return on investment than couture custom-clothing lines. The construction of RTW clothing was held to different standards due to its industrial nature. About wedding dresses line, they were ordered and sold through the ES Couture salons in Beirut and Paris and RTW wedding dresses were ordered through ES boutiques in Beirut and under license to Pronovias. Accessories line included shoes, handbags and others that sold through the ES boutiques in Beirut, Paris,…

1. “Because I was privy to the griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought- frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon.” (pg 1) When I first read this quote I thought that maybe Nick was just talking about some random men that he had met during his time in Long Island, but now I realize one of these “wild” men must have been Gatsby. Nick talked about…

It then redresses the viewer into Princess dresses for her to admire and desire (28). Certainly the hope of the Disney Company is that upon seeing these images, children will emulate the character Charlotte, who clings to her father and yells “I want that one!” (29). However, the “real-life” magic…

professor at the University of Arizona. The performance provided a well-rounded view of dance as a whole. The first dance was an excerpt from Jerome Robbins’ Antique Epigraphs. The performance opened with flute music and eight women in long, flowing dresses in earth tones. They started in a line running perpendicular to the audience,…

When biologists look to determine whether two organisms are of the same species, one of the things they often look for is whether or not these these organisms can mate and produce fertile offspring. If they can, then they are considered to be of the same species. Humans are no different; however, when it comes to the actual act of sex, so much more goes into it than the simple ability to produce offspring. Sex involves an attraction, a connection, a spark, and, as Diaz and Alexie point out, it…

The late 19th century gave rise to the “Positivist Age”, a period experienced in both Europe and America in which scientific progress and rational thought was beginning to be widely accepted and trusted. This transformation in political and religious ideals was paralleled in the arts through the rejection of Romanticism because it did not show accuracy of the real, observable world. Konstantin Makovsky’s painting The Russian Bride’s Attire, is a decorative piece that depicts the revival of…