Applying Spring/Summer 2024 Fashion Trends to Modest Tween Fashion

This research explores how current fashion trends can be adapted to fit the modesty values of Christian tween girls. Analyzing cultural beliefs, fashion trends, and the needs of Christian families with daughters will inform a small collection of age-appropriate, modest clothing for middle school girls. A review of literature, both Christian and secular, provides a picure of current influences on fashion. In today’s culture, relatively new ideas about homosexuality, transgenderism, marriage, and sex shape how many people, especially women, act and dress. Where clothing once emphasized femininity and modesty, most women’s clothing today emphasizes comfort or sexuality. These changes also affect childrenswear, pushing young girls to view themselves as sexual beings even before puberty. Since clothing influences how a person views herself and how other people perceive her, immodesty at a young age can significantly impact a girl’s thoughts and lifestyle. Observation of fashion runways and trend forecasting sources indicates what colors, shapes, and fabrics will be trending during the Spring and Summer of 2024. Interviewing girls in the target market and their parents reveals common themes related to finding modest clothing. By combining insight from literature review, trends, and interviews, this research inspires a small collection of three looks. Each outfit reflects concepts from Scripture that will help young girls navigate today’s cultural conversations. These outfits also reflect the modesty desires of many Christian and church-going families. Since fashion trends change every season, this is part of an ongoing conversation about how stylish young ladies can reflect both their sense of style and their identity in Christ

The development and evaluation of a senior high school unit on the buying of ready-made clothing

There seems to be e need for more and better instruction in the buying of ready-made clothing for girls in the senior high school. "The garments which are bought ready-made in almost every instance greatly outnumber those made at home."1 The answers the pupils gave to consumer buying questions "reflect profound and disturbing lack of knowledge in buying goods."2 Swann reported that the girl's knowledge of fiber content was poor, that they did not know where to look for authentic information which might have helped them, and that they seldom knew the cost of clothing per year.3 AS women and girls work more outside the home, and as they make less clothing, there is a need for training in the selection of ready-made clothing. Writers on the subject generally agreed that these needs of knowledge for consumer buyers of ready-made clothing have not been met to any degree of satisfaction

A comparison of the interest, importance, and psychological aspects of clothing between a group of blind and sighted teenage girls

This study was designed to compare attitudes and reactions to clothing of a group of blind and sighted teenage girls. Interest, interest-importance, importance, importance-psychological, and psychological aspects were designated as the five factors for comparison. A questionnaire of 36 items was devised to give information on the different factors. Four open-end questions were included to obtain information on other problems and concerns teenagers have with their clothing and the other questions requested biographical data. The sample for this study consisted of a group of 49 blind girls enrolled in a residential school for the blind and a group of 54 sighted girls randomly selected from the total enrollment of teenage girls in six secondary schools. An attempt was made, as far as was possible, to match the two groups by age and grade. The blind group was subdivided also into a category of the totally blind or 15 girls and a category of partially sighted or 34 girls

Income, gender and consumption: A study of Malawian households

This paper uses 1998 household level data from urban Malawi to look at the impact on consumption patterns of the share of total household income accruing to different individuals within the household. Specifically, male and female income shares and other factors which may influence intra-household bargaining such as education are analysed. The study finds that for some categories of good such as personal and household hygiene and clothing, unitary household models are unsuitable as intra-household relationships and differing preferences of individuals play a key role in consumption choices. Overall the results indicate that females favour household hygiene, vehicle repair and girls’ clothing while males favour male clothing. Consumption choices are influenced by both the income and education of the main male and female members, and crucially, the impact of income shares on household consumption is non-linear.Household Behaviour; Family Economics; Consumer Economics; Personal Income and Wealth Distribution; Economic Development; Africa; Malawi

Clothing and social interaction of four-year old children

This study was designed to determine whether clothing is perceived by four-year old children to the extent of affecting social interaction with other children. Although the literature theorizes concerning children's interactions with others and their feelings about clothing, very little evidence is given to support these hypotheses. Pretesting was done at the Nursery School of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For the study, the subjects were six boys and six girls selected from three preschools in Chapel Hill and Greensboro, North Carolina. Two girls and two boys from each of the preschools were subjects

Gaya Berpakaian Remaja Perempuan di Surabaya Pada Tahun 2000 2010

Girl’s clothing has become more dynamic, functional, and aesthetic since schools began to open to girls and the entry of European influences, then continued with the release of Indonesia from colonialism and the liberation of Indonesian fashion from various government regulations. Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, millennium euphoria and the rise of social media, as well as the influx of Hollywood and Hallyu cultures influenced dress styles nationwide. The application of this style of dress reached Surabaya in various ways and adapted to socio-cultural conditions in Surabaya. The formulation of the problem that arises, among others, how to change the clothing model of adolescent girls in Surabaya in 2000-2010 and how to mix and match clothes and identities that adolescent girls want to show in Surabaya in 2000-2010. The method used in this thesis is historical research methodology. Heuristics were carried out by searching for personal photo archive sources and conducting interviews of adolescent girls in Surabaya in 2000-2010, looking for sources from Gadis, Femina, Shop & shop, and Mossaik magazines, as well as Memorandum newspapers, Surabaya Post, and Tabloid Ti Amo. Verification is carried out by ascertaining the time of origin of the source and comparing all sources then interpreting or analyzing the data, then written in the form of a thesis. Through historical research, the dress styles of adolescent girls can be divided into clothing styles in 2000-2004 and clothing styles in 2005-2010. The style of dressing in 2000-2004 was known for combining clothes with cheerful colors and motifs, always in heels, and always showing the waist, but the bottoms were not too tight. Conversely, in 2005-2010, the style of dressing changed to be tight from top to bottom or loose at the top and covering the waist, but always tight at the bottom.Keywords:style of dress, teenage girls, years 2000 2010

Clothing Project Guide for South Dakota 4-H Club Members

Welcome to the 4-H Clothing project! You are about to begin or to continue your interest in a project which we hope you will find helpful and that you will enjoy. By the time you have finished the clothing project cycle you will have learned more about clothing care and wardrobe planning. You will have learned to be a better clothing shopper. Good grooming will become more important to you because you will want to be your own best exhibit. Sewing is part of the project. This will be fun because you will learn to make some article of clothing for yourself or family member to wear. Part of the project is to share with others the things you have learned. This, you will have a chance to do when you give a talk or a demonstration. When you wear a garment you have made or selected for others to see and admire you will be sharing, too. Your interests will be different depending upon your age and experience. This bulletin is divided into four sections. One for you younger girls who are just starting, out in the clothing project; one for those of you who are in the intermediate group with some experience; and one for you more advanced girls who are in the older age group and who are interested in wardrobe planning and perhaps more difficult construction. The last section on Care of Clothing applies to all age groups

Power Suit

The focus of this project began in utilizing hair as a vehicle to investigate rituals associated with mourning, grief, and the liminal space that exists between life and death. After an in depth search into the cultural, physical, spiritual, and material aspects of hair, I enacted process and labor to create a sculptural form that performs in response to grief. I chose to work with acrylic hair, as it exists in a space between the real and unreal, and visually is absorbed as the uncanny representation of the separated body. I wanted to discuss the body, while emphasizing its absence. What covers and shelters our skin? Clothing, our clothing outlast our bodies, our hair outlasts our bodies. I made a gown of hair, seven feet in length, standing five feet tall. I wove this gown of hair, and rendered it inaccessible, or rather impenetrable. The collar tight to the neck, doubling as a source of protection and suffocation. The dress, a queen’s gown. As little girls, women dream to become queens, not because of the beautiful clothing, but because of the absolute positions of power, control, authority, and respect. This piece “Power Suit” is an attempt to take back the power and control that grief inflicts over the bodies that are left living in the wake of loss

Donate Prom Dresses at Dinkins Through April 16

Prom Project is a clothing drive that will provide underprivileged girls with free prom dresses and accessories. Items will be collected at 120 Dinkins Student Union through April 16