ROAR! 5.4.3.2.1.

ahhh my last post for this term everyone! =D Excited? I am. lol SO I just got home and I'll give you guys a treat. :] ready? ready.


Figleafing Through History: The Dynamics of Dress


5.Comments:
1. First there was a comparison of the english old dress and the french dress. That the english dresses were more simplified and in a gentle way they can attract people while the french dresses were more expossing.
2.There are many words that you can use for dresses. And the have a specific name. I think that's really cool how people came to develope different ideas for gowns and dresses.
3. When and english suit became known to the rest of the world. The strongest cultures start to think of what they dress EX: Japan: kimono, China: Robe, India: Dhoit, turban was losing what they were trying to represent.
4. Then next were comparison and different reasoning on the kimona and chinese dragon robes but because both are made of silk and sewed with detail pictures. They start to recongize that both is different depending on the situation. Like the samuri's kimona and the orginal women's kimono.
5. The last few pages were back to the modern world. Where everything from ages ago coem back and help us to a better path to the clothing /fashion world. There is the closing and they are just presenting the idea how history of dresses and clothes can have a big impact on today with technology of the sewing machine.

4.Questions:
1. Why weren't some other countries mentioned?
2. Until now, do people still trade and creat their cultural clothing styles from years/centuries ago?
3. How do people like designers feel when they look back on the track that lead to today fashion?
4. Do people now still use methods to create some clothings that people back then use?

3.VOcabulary:
1. Psychedelic: of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
2.Farthingale:a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
3.Gradation: any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.

2 Literary Terms:
1. Symbol: The symbolism of the english suit and the varities of other cultural clothing.
2. Allusion: The reference of the famous people. EX: Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, King and Queens basiclly.

1.Overview:
1. The ending was actually very nice. It just put on a comparing alots from the old to the new world. There were also some comparison of the different clothing and the french and english and the chinese and japanese. It was all very interesting!! =] I totally loved it.