... gracefully over their bodies with borders embroidered or painted. In addition, between middle Ages and Industrial Revolution, power-driven machinery was introduced. This prompted the more efficient way of making clothes. Until the time of Industrial Revolution most of the clothing were produced at home. Every home was a small clothing factory. Women were the ones who usually made the clothing ... Cotton gins separate the fibers from the seeds, which caused the increase of production. For the first time in history, these two inventions made it possible for ready-to-wear clothes to be exce...

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... and feed all the animals. The only thing she remembered going to the store for was coffee, sugar, and material to make clothes. My grandma walked two miles to school. Her mother and two aunts made clothes for all the children. The girls wore dresses and the boys wore slacks. They had two sets of ... clothes, a school or church set and a play set. They also had a pair of shoes for school or church and another pair for play. ... She remembered that if they did not change from their school to play clothes right as soon as they got home from school or they would get in big trouble. For ente...

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... to conform to the latest trend. The use of illegal drugs, the decision of whether to drink alcohol on Friday night, and even the choice of what designer brand of clothes to wear are all situations in which a high school student has to make a decision. A constant question which has to be evaluated in their mind is, "Will I conform to the ... friends makes Helen blind to her father's wellbeing. Another principal character in the story is the dog, Jupiter. Jupiter tears up rose gardens, digs through trash, and steals clothes off of the neighbor's clothes line. Jupiter does what he wants to...

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... in the majority of episodes of the ten hour series, they represent one of more of these elements. The iconography of Band Of Brothers such as the wartime music, 1940s clothes and uniform, German and American tanks and war time weapons, the majority being originals dating back to 1939, all reinforce the idea or realism and help associate it to the ... buttons on a dress, to a weave of a uniforms fabric, to the machinery marks on a weapon. "It was best to find original clothing- according to Anna Sheppard, costume designer. The clothes couldn't be reproduced because clothes from the 1940'...

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... and their low immune systems from lack of food. Lice were also a problem in the trenches as they would lay their eggs in the soldiers clothes, and because the soldiers were unable to wash or clean their clothes, the eggs would hatch and bite the soldiers and often cause infections and fevers and flu like symptoms. All of these diseases, both physical ... ...

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... and their low immune systems from lack of food. Lice were also a problem in the trenches as they would lay their eggs in the soldiers clothes, and because the soldiers were unable to wash or clean their clothes, the eggs would hatch and bite the soldiers and often cause infections and fevers and flu like symptoms. All of these diseases, both physical ... ...

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... , the then India. The famine of early '50's is the direct outcome of their war and negligence of India. Scarcity of daily commodities, clothes pushed the common people of this region towards the endless miseries. The scarcity of clothes was such that many women of village were confined to their home and could not go out as they had no clothing to ... ...

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... document is supporting evidence to the idea that classics are always in style. Doc. #4 Aimee Lee Ball. "I Cover the Fashion Front."" Mademoiselle. September 1992. I wonder if other people watch the clothes the way I do, mentally cleaning out my closet to see what old stuff looks new again. The skirts are so long that I go into brief mourning for the calf-length ... taste is death, vulgarity is life. People call things vulgar when they are new to them. When they have become old they become good taste. The manufacturers who make my clothes and the people with financial interests in things...

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... very important throughout the great depression.the 1930's were a hard time for public education. With no money with short supply, parents were unable to provide their children with the necessary clothes, supplies, and textbooks to attend school. Taxes, especially in rural areas, were unpaid. With the loss of revenue, school boards were forced to try numerous strategies to keep their districts ... a new life for others. People would win plenty of money to start their carrier over and some lost all, and were never apart of anything ever again. For women, the clothes is what sparked their ...

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... as a gifts to wounded soldiers. Woman's hair were collected, cleaned and woven into glove and sock liners for submarine crews. Clothes in the good condition were sold at the "reasonable price", to relief organization inside and outside the country. But the clothes made some problem because of the blood spots so they had to reduce the price down. The Nazi were officially ... ...

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... in her red red krovvy, her platties all razrezzed real horrorshow," is translated into "smiling guys viciously assaulting a young woman who was screaming while lying in her own blood, her clothes beautifully torn up," the masked violence becomes naked. Language both disguises and reveals. Its significance goes well beyond an external and superficial effect (Olsen 115). When the mask is removed ... elders of our own era assume. "In choosing his patois, Alex has declared who and what he is. Language is a more important assertion of his identity than his oddly-mannered clothes," (Olsen 114...

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... the washing. We live in a fairly new house. My chores from day to day consist of on washing day getting up to help mother and the washerwoman help wash the clothes, cleaning the dishes, and just keeping the house in order when I see any mess. I also like to sew in my free time. My mother's day consists of helping the washerwoman ... , putting out the clothes to dry, cleaning up after breakfast and then for the rest of the day she would be housekeeping with the help of maids and tidying the furniture. More often than ... ...

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... as the control of raw materials in manufacturing. At first this annoyed many people because they were limited to the lives that they lead and the clothes that they wore. People were encouraged to mend their clothes rather than buying new ones. This meant that some people ledworse off lives than they had before and felt that their whole lives were being ... ...

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... second generation got older, they yearned to be more American. They were split between their two cultures. They were Asian Americans and they wanted to express that. They wore American clothes and began to adapt the American style. Their parents looked to them as ignorant because they were becoming too American. The generation gap between parents and second generation children was ... difficult to deal with. Second generation wanted their independence and freedom that their parents disallowed. The second generation did what they could to fit in besides the clothes and styles of the Amer...

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... two young African American children moving into a predominantly white neighborhood. The two African American children, a young boy and his younger sister, look at three white children dressed in their play clothes consisting of baseball mitts, caps, shorts, and dirty shirts. The Baseball gloves worn by all the boys illuminate the love for baseball, which demonstrates that most children share common interests ... on the home front when men went off to war during World War II. The picture Easter Morning Rockwell paints a mother and her three children dressed superbly in their Sunday cloth...

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... with the Holocaust and World War 2. This is because, in many occupied countries, the Nazis singled out Jewish people by making them wear yellow Stars of David pinned on their clothes. If seen wearing the star would put one's life in danger, but to be caught taking one off would make things even worse. For example, " 'Ellen' she whispered ... ...

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... also have a specific way of dressing for men and women. Men wear a yarmulke on their heads or skullcap with a black and white uniform. Women have to dress modest by wearing clothes that cover their chest and legs to not drive attention from others. Factors like these show that Jews want to separate themselves from other cultures and at the same time ... ...

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... Berlin airlift to break the blockade. For 347 days, they made 277,000 flights and landed every few minutes to Western Berlin to give tons of supplies as following: food, clothes, medicines, fuel, and Christmas presents (Doc D). Finally in 1949, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed. It was an international military alliance between American and West European countries and ... ...

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... created by the U.S. government to encourage women to join the workforce during the years of 1941-1945 (Rosie). She is depicted as an attractive, rosy-cheeked woman dressed in work clothes, exposing a flexed bicep. The expression on her face is a confident, and focused gaze, as if to show that she is determined. The caption above her picture reads, "We can ... ...

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... money should be spent on the military. The United Sates has, throughout its history and especially since World War II, spent a great deal of money on defense. Everything from the clothes a soldier wears to a nuclear warhead, the U.S. has spent an enormous sum of money on its armed forces. A more recent debate that has been hitting home lately in America is not ... ...

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... of filthy clothing and causing men to itch unceasingly. Even when clothing was periodically washed and deloused, lice eggs invariably remained hidden in the seams; within a few hours of the clothes being re-worn the body heat generated would cause the eggs to hatch. Lice caused Trench Fever, a particularly painful disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever ... ...

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... and shoes with holes in the toes and soles. These rags were anything but suitable for the frigid cold and harsh work trenches. It got to the point where ripping clothes off the dead for warmth became an almost happy experience. Anything they could find to make the experience more bearable and comfortable, they took, if possible. Work of course was ... ...

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... as a person. He feels that he is a failure, yet is thankful that, "...the hockey captain had never invaded his room, as he had Fruitcake Putsby's next door, and festooned his clothes through the hall; he had never found a mixture of sour cream and cereal in his bed at night, no one had ever poured ink into the tub while he was ... ...

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... the stadium and falls asleep under the bleachers. The next morning he wakes up and returns to his room to find a note on the door asking him to bring Finny's clothes and toilet articles to the infirmary, so he packs them and brings them to Finny. When he got there a phrase came to mind: "this is it" very appropriate for the ... ...

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... created by the U.S. government to encourage women to join the workforce during the years of 1941-1945 (Rosie). She is depicted as an attractive, rosy-cheeked woman dressed in work clothes, exposing a flexed bicep. The expression on her face is a confident, and focused gaze, as if to show that she is determined. The caption above her picture reads, "We can do ... ...

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