Skirts

Going through my closet every day looking for something to wear, I can only find skirts and dresses. As a little girl, my mother would always dress me in a navy-blue uniform dress or skirt with tights and boots. I would tell my classmates I would dress this way because I was forced by my mother but, I only said that to cover up the real reason. I was afraid of being made fun of and I felt as though everyone made assumptions about me because I dressed differently, instead of getting to know my…

Flapper’s of the 1920’s Women in Europe and the United States had to occupy industry and social life as men left to fight in the Great War in the late 1910’s. A new kind of woman, with short, bobbed hair, shorter skirts and freer clothes to match her new, independent lifestyle appears. (1920-30, 2) These types of women were to be known as flappers. Flapper’s didn’t truly emerge until 1926. As the idea of gender equality became a reality, it is no wonder that the right to vote was given to…

dress code for the female students is only to wear skirts and the schools have many complaints of the dress code. After many complaints after the female dress code a student who is a mother of an 11 year old, Sofia wrote to the state’s education minister, looking for a change. The dress code for the girls made it hard to “do many activities” was stated by Sofia. The boys are allowed to use shorts and pants but the only thing the girls can wear are skirts. One of the state’s education minister,…

“You’re asking for it” Junior year picture day was coming up, and of course I wanted to get a great picture. I picked out my favorite plain, black strapless shirt. As soon as I get to school, I am called into the principal 's office. I had been dresscoded. The middle-aged man told me that I “was distracting to my fellow male classmates.” Despite the fact that my hair falls and covers way lower than my shoulders, my body was still too inappropriate, even though every human has shoulders of their…

given by her teacher, the lightness, reminding the girl of her burden, and how her burden should feel light. The rat and the dog, while they seem alike that aren’t, they symbolizing the difference her burden and her father’s. Lastly the flammable skirt, the girl feeling invincible in a…

War, had a large effect on the American people and American society, specifically in fashion. Women’s fashion dramatically, and permanently transformed during and around the years of World War I. As the war went on, dresses shifted from long, thin skirts to loose pants, to shorter dresses, consequently forming into the popular flapper style of the 1920s. This shift is largely…

bodice, side assembled and hitched midsection, side hung skirt with side slit, back ruching, and sweep train. This dress is available in sizes ranging from size 4 to size 20 in colors eggplant and royal blue; along with a long sleeve of illusion lace and a matching shawl. Style � 117621 Containing a tulle A-line outfit with hand-beaded hallucinating top sleeves and bateau neckline, beaded motif bodice, finely pleated waistband and skirt, beaded illusion back, and sweep train; this dress can…

Dressing the Victorian Men, Women, and Children One cannot understand Victorian fashion without having knowledge of the historical period and in particular the values that shaped it. In general, the Victorian Age describes the decades of history in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837-1901. This period was characterized by the spread of the British Empire and in turn a commitment to “civilizing” the native peoples by imparting the unique British model of society (“The…

hours to loop and stitch the yarn. The result was lovely, with the yarn pulled into a coronet of braided, soft, red hair. The only thing left was the dress. Elizabethan era clothing was opulent. The puffed sleeves, lacy collars and enormous skirts were intricately adorned and made with sumptuous silks and soft velvet. I wanted Elizabeth’s dress to emulate this grandeur and expand my sewing skills a little, so I sketched a few dresses and decided on the one with a ruffled collar, puffed…

during that time. This particular dress was a style going on during 1860s-1890, at the beginning of the time the fullness of the very large crinoline, a stiffened petticoat or rigid skirt-shaped structure of steel designed to support the skirts of a woman 's dress into the required shape, was moved to the back of the skirt and trailed behind the wearer. A decade later a bustle gathered and made its way on to the back…