Journal Entry #6

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• The clothing that women wore were "images of women that society wanted them to fit" (115).
  
• In the 1740s women dressed like Puritans only wearing three colors; black, gray, and brown. Then came "An Elegant Colonial lady" (1780s), "The Empire Look" (1820s), and the corset in the 1860s which was very "uncomfortable" and reduced the waist to about 18 inches.
  
• In the 1920s women were now able to show some leg!
  
• Dior has been around the since 1947.
  
• Starting in the 1950s, clothing were being made in factories and jeans were becoming popular.
• The "Audrey Hepburn Look Takes Over", this look consists of a black dress and big sunglasses. I wouldn't be mad by this time I love dresses and bid shades!
  
• In 1968 "The hippies Make the Scene" and bikinis are now made (1970s).
• MTV influenced people to wear what ever they wanted to wear when ever, and also in the 1980s "Fashion magazines become bibles" (120).
• Fashion was now being printed every where and they beginning to change the world.
• In 1862 magazines were only two dollars for the year!
  
• In the 1890s the sizes of magazines increased from 6 by 10to 11 1/2 by 16 1/2 inches.
• Seventeen magazine have been around the World War II.
• "In the twentieth century, American women were offered more body-contorting contraptions than an Olympic gymnast: scalp-searing hair relaxers, cellulite cream, skin bleach, thigh masters" (126).
  

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• What happened if a women wore a dress above her knees?
• Who wore the first short dress?
  
• Was there a certain age that women had to be to where a specific length in dresses?
  
• Did men start wearing jeans before women or around the same time as women?
  

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• Dainty (116): of delicate beauty
  
• Pompadour (117): an arraignment of man's hair which is brushed up high from the forehead
  
• Haute (118): high class; fancy
  
• Passe (119): no longer fashionable
  
• Contraptions (126): a mechanical device
  
• Fad (127): a temporary fashion
  

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• "From Eve's fig leaf to Cinderella's slipper, from the buttoned-up look of the Puritans to the mini-skirts of the 1960s, the clothes have always been important as a mirror of the times, politically, socially, and economically" (Beckerman 115). Allusion.
  
• "The first World War ended and so did the restrictions on how women dressed" (117). Allusion.
• "I'm still waiting for the day that women's bodies aren't expected to fit the fad of the moment" (127).
  

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• Fashion has come a really long way from showing nothing but finger tips to showing as much as an individual wants. There are some fashion that I would have no trouble in wearing if I lived during the time.