https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/99-361/s2021a/fashion-library-danova/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:52:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.11 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/99-361/s2021a/fashion-library-danova/#comment-23 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:52:01 +0000 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/99-361/s2021a/?p=4185#comment-23 Donova and Aditi, this article and your reflections make me think of a series of other questions: why do you think gender and sexuality are so monitored, taught, and enforced in U.S. culture? Why is fashion such an important instrument for teaching gender and expressing gender? This article illustrates how powerful clothing is in fundamental elements of our identities – both in formation and in expression.

]]> https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/99-361/s2021a/fashion-library-danova/#comment-15 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:53:07 +0000 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/99-361/s2021a/?p=4185#comment-15 I really liked your commentary on the text. I definitely agree that the expectations are so deeply ingrained as children that many unconsciously follow these. It is interesting to see how strong the effect of commercialization on a groups like children who do not have a great interest in material things, like clothes. I’m not sure when this article was written – but in the last few years androgyny and androgynous clothing have definitely made an impact on mainstream fashion. Hopefully, in the near future this will extend to children clothes!

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