This Dress Log assignment was very interesting because it made me think about my daily routine and really dig deep into what affects my dress choices. I almost felt like I was repeating myself too much especially because this week, all I did was really working on my projects at school basically. For the 5 days out of 7 days I was at school, sitting in front of a sewing machine. This was very interesting for me because it made me realize that weather plays the biggest part in my daily dress routine before I go out anywhere. Second, comfort was the theme for this week because I knew I was going to be sitting down inside for a long time working on my project. So I can say that out of “who, what, when, and where’, What I’m doing is another big part of my dress choice. I would choose from different type of clothes for different occasion for example, if I was just going to school to do homework I would only dress in what is the most comfortable clothes but if I was going to school with an important presentation I would take out one of my nicest clothes that I only wear on special occasions to dress up. I know that I have a lot of clothes in black and can say half of my closet is literally all black. But from logging everything I wear for a whole week made me really realize that I have so many different items all in black.

This is an advertisement for Dolce & Gabbana FW 2011. In this ad, there seem to be two different gendered group, male and female. But if you look at them closer they are all girls. The brand portrayed different genders but used all female model. They used short hair and hats to describe the typical masculinity and also the male figures are all wearing suit pants and shirt, vest and jacket which is the typical men’s suit pieces. The girls are portrayed also as the typical thin, vulnerable and pretty. They also look like they are very needy of a man because they are lingering to a man. To me this advertisement is reinforcing the traditional gender norms as in girls are always feminine looking and depend on men and the guys are suppose to be strong and always have the pretty girl in his possession. But to me I think it is all really in our mind and our culture is setting up all these rules for different genders. I think like in this ad, the female can be represented as strong as male (like how the D&G used female model to be portrayed as male) and male can be represented as vulnerable as female. To me this quote from Fashion and Cultural Studies relate the most to my answer.

“the body and its differentiating sexual characteristics become a metaphor for sex, whereas clothing and its culturally coded meanings become a metaphor for gender. Gender is socially constructed and culturally created and represented. Gender is something that people do. Applying makeup, shaving one’s face or one’s legs, and donning high heels or a face veil all fall within the real, of doing gender.” (Kaiser 2012, 127)