Wednesday, November 19, 2008

5.4.3.2.1 ROAR!

Hey everyone today I'm going to start on a brand new book. The reason why I picked this book was because I'm vbery into fashion and I'm garuntee that I'll get some lessons out of this. SO I'm sure it's goign to be a big help if I want to be a fashion designer in my later years.


Figleafing Through History: The Dynamics of Dress

5. Comments:
1. So far they are introuducing me to why I should consider reading this book. Very good introduction.
2. The book constantly changing subjects of clothing. For example the moon suit then the indians wear,scientific robes, hippies and many many more.
3. It gives out many information about other subjects as well for exmaple the hominds and how we develope but it still relates to clothes and the changes over time.
4. Includes main factors of what people wear, why they wear it, and how/what did it come from.
5. First starts of about animals uses for colthign for ice age, homids, and early stages of human beings. The tools used to create clothing back then and what they actually wore.

4.Questions:
1. As human evolved, does clothing develop as well?
2. Why do different culture people dress differently? How did that start?
3. Why are their different clothes for different jobs?
4. How did the early humans start to tranform themself from being nude to having more clothing on?

3.Vocabulary:
1. grotesquely: odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
2. permanence: the condition or quality of being permanent; perpetual or continued existence.
3. imaginatively:characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination

2.Literary Terms:
1. Allusion: The book made many refernces of different history on earth. For example early human, scientific theories and historical culture and modern brands of clothing line.
2. Metaphor: comparing the early human painted skin to camflouge into the environment as real clothing protection and animals.

1.Overview:
Throughout these 20 pages, very detailed describing different scenes of clothes beign used and improved over time. It though changes subjects from different early human species to modern day clothes brands. And around different other mathematical and science relations.

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