Mini Skirts
Mini Skirts
Participate in an asynchronous assignment. You are strongly encouraged to view the live Seminar archive for this week’s Discussion. Many students find this live discussion very helpful because your instructor will clarify the Seminar information and your classmates may pose questions that you also have about the material.
You should create your Seminar responses in MS® Word®. Your response to the topics below should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs and be 200 – 300 words in length. Save your answers and submit them to the Unit 5: Seminar Dropbox. The Dropbox is located at the top of this class on the gray toolbar. Be sure to complete all questions to earn your Seminar points.
This is going to be a fun one! The 60s are known for all sorts of the advent of new fads and fashions. Choose one fad or fashion from the list below. Do a little research on this fad or fashion. How did this fad or fashion come to be? What is the sociological significance of this fad or fashion; why would something like this become popular? I hope we get a wide variety of topics!
| Slinky | mini skirts |
| Frisbees | bell-bottom pants |
| Tie-dying | hot pants |
| The “peace” symbol | the Afro |
| Mood rings | bouffant hairdos |
| blacklights | Go-go boots |
Participate in an asynchronous assignment. You are strongly encouraged to view the live Seminar archive for this week’s Discussion. Many students find this live discussion very helpful because your instructor will clarify the Seminar information and your classmates may pose questions that you also have about the material.
You should create your Seminar responses in MS® Word®. Your response to the topics below should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs and be 200 – 300 words in length. Save your answers and submit them to the Unit 5: Seminar Dropbox. The Dropbox is located at the top of this class on the gray toolbar. Be sure to complete all questions to earn your Seminar points.
This is going to be a fun one! The 60s are known for all sorts of the advent of new fads and fashions. Choose one fad or fashion from the list below. Do a little research on this fad or fashion. How did this fad or fashion come to be? What is the sociological significance of this fad or fashion; why would something like this become popular? I hope we get a wide variety of topics!
| Slinky | mini skirts |
| Frisbees | bell-bottom pants |
| Tie-dying | hot pants |
| The “peace” symbol | the Afro |
| Mood rings | bouffant hairdos |
| blacklights | Go-go boots |
Answer preview
The miniskirts were a fashion of the 1960’s that first appeared in the Vogue magazine. It was a new fashion model that brushed just above the knee. Unlike the popular skirts of the time that covered the whole body, the miniskirts had a new way to expose the legs and it offered the girls more freedom to move about and dance. Mary Quant was the first London designer to make the miniskirts. She is today credited as the mother of the mini skirt. Her inspiration was to create a cloth that was sleek and yet allowed women to move freely. She was inspired by the ballerinas she watched as a child and embraced that sleek style in her store at Chelsea……………
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