Post 2 images from your last assignment, the Dress Practice Log, and post a final overall reflection to your LP. Your final overall reflection should answer these questions:

• What themes emerged in your dress practice log?
• What did you notice about daily dress practice that you hadn’t noticed before?
• How did the dress practice log impact your understanding of the relationship between clothing and the body?

After completing the dress practice log, I found some themes that were almost in all of my outfits. For color, deep blue and black are my favorite. In the first picture, I am wearing a deep blue patterned dress. I also wear deep blue denim jacket and deep blue top in my other photos in the log. In the second picture, I am wearing all black. There are two more outfits where I wear all black in the log. Deep V neck is another theme that emerges. Almost all of my tops are deep V neck, because I think this neck line fits my body and aesthetics the best. I also occasionally wear ballet neck and crew neck clothes.

It’s the first time when I notice I prefer dark color. When I am designing, I usually prefers to make the collection colorful. However, when I look at my dress log, I realize I am wearing dark colored clothes almost every day. The brightest color I had worn is red and it only happened once in a skirt in the picture where I am playing the piano. I also surprisingly realize that I never wear more than two colors, unless the garment is patterned. I think that’s because two colors provide better unity and I prefer using different intensity of the same color to show variation.

The dress practice log lets me think more deeply about the relationship between clothing and body. In general, clothing serves our body. We use clothing to decorate our bodies and make them look better, to provide comfort, keep us warm and demonstrate our personality. Our purpose of putting on clothes is usually a mix of these. However, the emphasis changes. For example, when we are going out, we tend to focus more on the “looking nice in front of others” side; when we are with ourselves, we tend to focus more on the comfort and warmth side.