Hoop skirt

June 20, 1837, until her death on January 22, 1901, Queen Victoria’s reign had set out a whole new trend from progressing technology, to new clothes that would inspire modern-day clothing wear, to gender roles, religion, arts, and literature would change our world forever. Alexandrina Victoria was born on May 24, 1819, to her parents Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in Kensington Palace, London, United Kingdom. Alexandrina, later became…

Elizabethan Theatre and Hamlet The Elizabethan era is named after the Queen of England - Queen Elizabeth I who reigned in the years of 1558 to 1603. During this time theatre became central in the social lives of society, whereas they used to be public executions and cockfighting. Elizabethan theaters was extemporary, loud, and dirty, however, it attracted audiences as large as 3000 people from all social classes. Though, mostly the upper classes because they could afford watching plays during…

Country Line Dancing is the American Cowboy Country line dancing is a form of dance in which groups of people no matter their size, age or gender dance in lines while executing the same movements. The costumes associated with this dance are of a western style. The idea of the “American Cowboy” is often paralleled with line dancing. The sex of the “American Cowboy” is male and has the gender identity relating to masculinity; this figure is often highly romanticized. Although this dance is…

Dances which we see nowadays are India 's Court dances like Manipuri and Kathak dance forms. Dancers are usually wear formal dresses which can look comical. Both males and females dance wearing certain dresses. For example: Females had to wear hoop skirts at those times because it helpesd them to do a lot of jumping and skipping. Court Dance had easy steps like spinning around, moving around with their partners. Gradually, the steps became more sophisticated. Its most spectacular bought in…

The first thing I noticed when I walked into Jasmine Middle School was how big the eighth graders were. I knew that in middle school the sixth graders would be the babies, but it was still kind of a shock at how big eighth graders really were; well, at least I hoped the kids I was looking at were eighth graders. If the group of kids hanging out by the lockers were seventh graders, then eighth graders must be huge. Luckily, after looking around for a few seconds, I spotted my best friend,…

the Sun Dance. For the younger generation some of these ceremonies had never been seen. They had not been performed since the time of their great-grandfathers. In 1973, Leonard Crow Dog performed a Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee and proclaimed that the hoop had not been broken and so the Ghost Dance was reborn (Lakota Woman, 154-155). He also performed many other ceremonies on their land at Crow Dog’s Paradise. Mary Crow Dog felt that “Indian religion was forbidden. Children were punished for…

One of the most popular slogan used by Donald J. Trump in his presidential campaign of 2016 is "Make American Great Again." At the first glance, this slogan brought back memories to those who experienced, first-hand, the peak of American nationalism. For an outsider who has not fully experienced the progress of American history, we wonder when was this period of greatness. From a remote perspective looking back at the past, each decade is transformed by its own noticeable identities and…

In Sandra Cisneros’ bildungsroman The House on Mango Street, we see the main character, Esperanza struggle to find her place in Chicago, as well as within her own culture’s idea of the “perfect” woman, the ideal woman of her community and the ideal woman of the 80’s. In Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, we see two girls’ journey after they are abandoned by their mother in a small town located in Northern Idaho. Set in the 1950’s, we see Ruth and Lucille develop as they find their place within…

wealthy plantation owners who spent their days sipping tea under Oak trees draped in Spanish moss. Lavish, Greek-style plantation homes housed these affluent white, Christian families that consisted of gentrified men and beautiful, poised, women in hoop-skirts and gowns. Meanwhile the goods pouring out of the region were produced by the labor of complacent, and often invisible, slaves. The culmination of these simplistic, picturesque visions and misconceptions is the belief that slaves…

reflected society 's rapid movement. Generally, fabrics were very thin and airy for women. From corsets to hoop skirts, even bloomers were not popularized until the 1800s. By the 1920s however, women sported short haircuts, short skirts, and loosely fitted dresses, all of which were considered to be connected to libertine behavior. Multiple state legislatures even attempted to pass laws fixing skirt lengths from 6 to 12 inches from the ground at most (source 6). Elders believed that the new…