Tourism, Gender, Fast Fashion
Why have some countries lost their traditional clothing styles?
colonization, influence from Western fashion
Explain why some vegans are opposed to silk.
It is produced by raising then killing silkworms in their cocoons.
Define cultural appropriation.
Theft or inappropriate use of a group's cultural artifacts; taking a part of someone's culture out of its original context or misrepresenting it.
Name a specific example of a country/culture whose traditional clothing was displaced by Western clothing.
China (hanfu), Navajo people (geometric patterns on their clothes), Sami (detailed embroidery on their gakti)
Name one plant-based textile, where it came from, and how it affected new societies that it came to.
Cotton -- tropical places
Indigo -- tropical places
Silk -- China
Name an example of something clothing-related that could be considered cultural appropriation.
Answers vary!
Name one garment that has become unisex over time OR has shifted from one gender to another over time AND why
High heels - originally for men to ride horses with until Enlightenment ideas about men wearing simple clothes shifted it to being for women
Pants - originally only worn for horseback riding, then became a male garment (since most men rode horses in war), then became unisex in the late 1900s thanks to women wearing them in factories during WWII
Explain how, after independence, African and Asian nations still suffer from a loss of traditional culture at the hands of Western culture.
Citizens studying/working/ in former colonizing countries, economic dependence on former colonizers, military presence of former colonizers
Explain how social media has influenced global fashion trends and why it has been criticized
Social media allowed trends to spread further than before but they also changed faster than before because of the amount of content being constantly shared. It also increased consumerism as people chased more trends, leading to more pollution from fast fashion.
Explain how fast fashion negatively impacts local fashion industries AND name a country whose local industries have been displaced by Western fast fashion.
It provides cheap, low-quality clothing at a fast pace that local businesses can't keep up with. In Ghana, Mexico, and India, local fabric industries were displaced by an influx of Western fast fashion, though these industries are trying to make a comeback.
Explain how, during the colonial period, many African and Asian nations lost their traditional cultures.
Colonial rulers encouraged assimilation into the colonial culture, while local elites studied or worked in the metropole and brought those traditions back with them.
Explain how photography influenced fashion trends and why it has been criticized.
Before the invention of photography, trends moved very slowly through face to face contact, but advertisements in magazines and newspapers allowed trends to travel further. It has been criticized for only promoting certain kinds of body types.
Explain 2 ways fast fashion pollutes the environment and explain how Rwanda is combatting this.
the main part of the colonizing country is called the...
metropole
Explain how film has affected fashion trends and why it has been criticized.
Film allowed fashion trends to spread a lot faster than before and created idols in celebrities or their characters that people wanted to emulate in their fashion and their characteristics, especially women and young people. These groups saw this as an opportunity to control their own style inspired by people they looked up to in the media. it has been criticized for setting unrealistic expectations.