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I love this post and the comments!
Fashion is better understood as allowing for both agency and constraint, according to context and the way fashion is used to perpetuate or undermine oppressive cultural forces.
I agree that fashion is a valuable resource for feminism. I’m so glad this pic is getting this kind of critical feminist attention. Make sure you leave suggestions about it below. Feminists can’t afford to ignore fashion as something meaningless or trivial… it’s a powerful lens for making sexual, racial, and class politics visible and hereupon for confronting them, as Prof. Pham points out. Basically the oppression we may experience when we’re engaging with fashion comes from cultural ideologies that may circulate through fashion imagery and rhetoric, not fashion itself, so that make us feel good as a woman, as professional or as an individual mostly, we don’t need to spend ridiculous amounts of money on fashion items. Oftentimes I think that looking presentable doesn’t mean that a woman is shallow. I like to look presentable, I like to look good but for self satisfaction. Now let me ask you something. Instead of like baskets of fruit or Hawaiian punch, might we large women look tailored, powerful and womanly? Anyway, may we please wear comfortable shoes that look nice? Could durable, classic styles please endure for over one season? Could we PLEASE have pockets, strong ones?
Yeah, fashion is a highly ‘class based’ affair as well!
Forget about it!
For a fat woman, clothes are either moderately priced and extremely flimsy, or extremely expensive and have to last forever. That said, I see blogs advising on the latest season or replace everything after five years and I laugh. Second hand? We must balance this with not spending all of our time and money as advertisers insist. Plenty of info can be found on the internet. Consumerism and fashion can still be oppressive! Did you hear about something like this before? Love this post! We feminists must embrace this and use it to our advantage, rather than ignoring the fact that fashion matters. Essential for women to look stylish. Even on a Internet dating site. One issue we need to tackle is double standards of fashion and grooming for women and men. As a result, I think it’s comments and beliefs just like this, and although he meant no harm by it still shows that the perception of women is that they must remain feminine as if that’s their most important characteristic. Yes, that’s right! If it’s a boy, a girl just needs to look pretty, I heard a friend whose wife is expecting a baby recently say, he needs to be smart, consequently he can succeed.
Consequently, as long as his wife had not yet been diligent in eating healthy he made this comment. He said this after learning from my wife, who is a dietitian, about the importance of the mother taking essential vitamins for the baby’s brain development. Do take a look at what’s been written, it looks like they’ve recently decided to take a hiatus from the project. For the most part there’re some amazing perspectives from women of all shapes, sizes, socioeconomic backgrounds, nationalities and suchlike all from a feminist perspective. Usually, mostly there’s a fabulous and fiercely intelligent group of women who have blogged a project called Feminist Fashion Bloggers. Friend tweeted this to me because of what I’d written really similar morning. By quite similar token, To be honest I don’t think you have the right to put me down for dressing how I can afford. Play with it however you like, if style makes you happy. With all that said… Because kids make messes and they’ll wash, hoodies and mom jeans are sometimes what moms need to wear. Notice that the Double Lives of Black Women in America explains that she never goes into an interview or a really new job experience without first straightening her hair.
Racist stereotypes that cast some women of color as out of control and others as easily controllable serve women poorly in the workplace.
a blackish woman interviewed by Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter Gooden for their book Shifting.
Professional women of color thus consciously and unconsciously fashion themselves in ways that diminish their racial difference. Women of color endure heightened scrutiny, while all women’s fashion choices are more carefully policed than men’s. Sounds familiardoes it not? One Asian woman interviewed by sociologist Rose Weitz for the academic journal Gender Society admitted that she permed her hair for work being that she felt that she looked ‘too Asian’ with her naturally straight hair. Also, women of color who wear ethnic dress are often read as traditional, unmodern and, in lifetime, fashion policing of women is also racially stratified.
They signify global cosmopolitanism, a multicultural coolness, when similar garments are worn by whitish women.
Women, by their looks, men are judged by their deeds.
Fact that even the most politically and culturally commanding women must walk a razor’s edge betweenlooking powerful and still appearing appropriately feminine underscores visual theorist John Berger’s concise description of mainstream society. Menact and women appear. Interesting that you haven’t mentioned anything about the 4″, 5″, 6″ heels that continue to be found whatsoever the department stores. You certainly should create a woman’s fashion magazine that makes sense for the modern woman. These shoes basically make fools out of women and put us in really similar category as Chinese foot binding if you ask me. Otherwise and interesting article. Certainly, you have to educate people finally. Women’s fashion magazines. My other thought is that who’s fault is it that women are portrayed the way they are in fashion? Normally, can fashion be feminist?
Absolutely!
I struggled with this question for years, and had the chance to ask Gloria Steinem about it.
She ld me to stop denying who I am, and to take it. She ld me something that I will never forget -that we can make greater changes to a structure from the inside than from the outside. Sometimes being ourselves means prioritizing things aside from clothes and makeup and back in the day, not having to do that was liberating. I remember. I was there.
For instance, the last thing a few of us need is pressure to change yet again from those who allegedly support us being ourselves, I’m quite sure I have nothing whatever against people dressing as they please. So, I believe fashion is something that defines you and your personality. Seriously. Whether Britney Spears or Julia Roberts, I do not like impersonating celebrities.
Instead, I believe in making my personal style statement through wearing the clothes that suits me and my personality. That’s the reason I wear clothes I am perfectly comfortable in. You might appreciate this article. I read Cracked a lot, and your comment reminded me of that. That’s where it starts getting interesting. I love this pic! It’s almost like society says if we wanna say we are a feminists we can’t be into fashion. Keep reading! Felt we couldn’t find in one spot, things we love. Let me tell you something. I studied women’s studies in college and have started a blog combining fashion, food, and feminism.
Excerpted from the Fall 2011 issue ofMs.To have this issue delivered straight to your door,join theMs.community.
It has also been a tether that keeps women’s social, economic and political opportunities permanently attached to their appearances, So if fashion was used to introduce new ways of expressing womanhood.
Nowa ripe old 15, she has used fashion as a springboard to her latest venture. At a time when makeover reality TV shows suggest that selfreinventionis not only desirable but almost required, and the ubiquity of social media encourages everyone to develop a personal brand, the pressure on women to be fashionable has never been more pervasive.Even as the Internet has intensified the desire to be fashionforward, it has also given outsiders unprecedented influence on the industry. In 2008, a fashion blog by a 11yearold Midwestern girl named Tavi Gevinson went viral.
