Skirt

of the conservative look. As you can see, their skirts go to about halfway down their shins, and their shoulders are usually always covered. Whereas these pictures here are of the carefree look. Their skirts are shorter and they look more confident. Even though their shoulders are still covered just…

Ironically, this particular style of dress was derived from past inspiration but plays a very significant role on present world dress and future style of dress. In reality, many of us know that frilly skirts and button down cardigans match a hair bow will not be lived down in our lifetime, it is one of the most prevailing clothing mimics of western culture, the Lolita fashion teens just do it with a bit more elegance. Classic Lolita fashion was planted…

Ever since we started school we’ve had to deal with dress code. However, schools have different rules such as whether you have to wear uniforms or how short your skirts can be. My elementary school required us to wear uniforms and as the years went on the dress code got progressively stricter. When I moved on to high school it wasn’t much better. They would constantly send people to the office to get a change of clothes, but by doing this they also removed students from their classes, making…

for their sexual functions; hence “the nineteenth century society came to regard them as ‘The Sex’.” (Kent 32) This outfit was soon challenged. Charles Worth, a designer who dominated fashion, believed that crinoline skirt was unattractive. He manipulated the style and altered the skirt to a new trained, softer bustled version. This was the beginning of the change of Victorian fashion, in where clothing was worn for not only the aesthetics but the function and comfort as well. The suffragettes…

I developed a strong hatred for skirts and dresses, refusing to wear them. I rejected dance and Barbies and princesses and the color pink. I was in a new school at this point, which had the same uniform as the Catholic school, but I was allowed to wear pants. And I did. I didn’t really have friends at this school, but the couple friends I did have were boys. Sadly, I caught a case of misogyny and would denounce the “girlier girls.” I started wearing skirts again in 6th grade. Makeup in 7th.…

partners sailed to another island, where they brought back their Kula shells from their partners in residence on that island.” Understand the Trobriander’s economic side of the culture can help us to understand how the traditional Kula exchange, yams, skirt, and bundles can show us how some individuals when from tradition economic to modern…

Christian Dior’s The Bar Suit (The New Look) of the collection La Ligne Corolle was a significant moment in contemporary fashion. Why was the New Look by Christian Dior a shock for women’s fashion after the World War II? Did it set the tone for the future? The Second World War shook the vast majority of the world’s countries from 1939 to 1945. Immediate effects of the war were seen everywhere; parts of Europe destroyed from war and bombings, bringing countries to debt after spending deficit on…

The Karankawa were speculated to be descendants of the “Carib” indians who according to Wikipedia, arrived by sea from the Caribbean basin in the seventeenth century. They were observed to be taller than any of the other indians in the region, and resembled the Caribs. The Karankawa Indians lived in the Coastal Plains region, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Their territory extended from the west end of present day Galveston down to Corpus Christi. We know that there were several tribes or…

you hear these 3 words, Panther, banner, skirts? Well heres the scenario. The Football cheerleaders had just made their way out onto the left side of field to do the run through cheer and the phrase, “Oh crap.” Suddenly popped ito every cheerleaders head when the football players started making their way to the right side of the field. The names of the boys had just started and Junior Sydney Kightlinger was the first to react. “I had to run in my skirt with the banner wavinvg behind m ,…

Choices are a major part of everyone’s lives. The choices we make now can affect us both in positive and negative ways. It’s important that we have choices to explore every possibility that we can. If we didn’t have choice, everyone would look the same, act the same, and have the same things, just like in The Giver. Individuality allows people to discover themselves and without it, the world would seem like a monotone mass of people instead of a bright and colorful planet. One of the choices…