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The essay explores Feminine identity Shaped by the Corset of Contents.... oncepts of feminine identity have changed drastically throughout history.... The essay analyzes visual identity of the feminine.... The tight-lacing of the 17th and 18th centuries indicate the degree to which the corset was considered a means of female sexual expression and define ideas of female beauty.... fashion has played a significant role....
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The paper "Fashion provides one of the most ready means" explores what fashion is, from several perspectives, and highlights a number of difficulties in equating fashion with the expression of individual identity.... This essay analyzes Fashion and visual identity.... The essay explores is fashion provides one of the most ready means through which individuals can make expressive visual statements.... The term “fashion” derives from the French verb faire which means simply “to make,” and it came to be used at first by the upper classes of Europe who began to mingle more freely with each other and exchange influences during the Industrial revolution....
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In defining female dress for modern contexts, the nature of fashion and Muslim tradition comes together to place women of Muslim into relationship with modern ideals while retaining elements of tradition that are important for Muslim identity.... One group that is having a difficult time in becoming a part of the globalized world is found in Muslim women who must endure both condemnations from worldwide beliefs that they are being oppressed and the issue of staying modest yet relevant in modernized and emerging societies....
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This essay "The Significance of fashion Statement in the Provision of identity" discusses the fashion industry, it has been able to communicate the different facets of life effectively.... In general, however, fashion is mostly about identity, which is used to define the self as Roche (2000, p.... n the other hand, identity can be defined as a way through which individuals can represent themselves in a social manner.... There are a number of reasons that push an individual to want to express their identity....
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The essay explores Fashion as a Culture and identity Expression Tool.... This essay analyzes the identity Expression Tool and fashion.... The essay "Fashion as a Culture and identity Expression Tool" discovers the culture and identity expression tool of fashion.... In this essay, the impacts of traditional and cultural wear in representing the identity and culture of a given group of people will be discussed....
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This research paper, Alternative Fashion, outlines that people tend to show their identity through unconventional means, alternative fashion.... This way, alternative lifestyles are used to show conformity and a sense of identity with the group that one belongs to and its significance.... A person who spots alternative fashion styles usually does so, to stick or conform to the subculture that has a unique way of conducting itself outside the mainstream lifestyles....
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This paper "Fashion, Culture and identity" discusses discuss fashion in terms of its underlying impact on the societal and individual construction of identity.... The human identity is a highly complex and often ambiguous concept, basically, it can be understood as the various identities.... Clothing according to the above paper is symbolically representative of the identity one desires to embody as well as the way they wish to present themselves in the eyes of the society....
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This essay "The Importance of Beauty and Social Norms" discusses the concepts of sartorial fashion and beauty-enhancing plastic surgery that have become important tools for expressing both individualities as well as group identity and the role of the media in this identification.... In the nineteenth century, clothing signified social identity, particularly in France and America.... Entwhistle further argues that fashion as a means to identity formation cannot be discussed in isolation to the body since it is through the articulation of bodily identity....
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