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Why We Wear Clothes: The Functions of Fashion
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As a tool of the individual and of culture, clothing has meaning. In this program, students explore the functional, social, and psychological aspects of clothing. Viewers learn how clothing provides more than just protection from the elements; it offers comfort, helps us to fit in with our peer group, and encourages us to follow trends. The right clothes can boost our self-image and confidence, too. We examine the fashion industry, as well as the influential role that marketing and advertising play in our daily decision of what to wear.
Runtime: 23 minutes
Copyright 2011 Learning Seed | |
| | DVD | | SKU: | LS-1196-11-DVD | | Description: | ISBN: 1-55740-595-6
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Fashion, Fads, And Freedom: Clothing choices play a role in almost every social problem from school violence and drugs to poverty and gangs. To many, the word "fashion" means Paris, models, and high prices. In reality, fashion is basic self-expression for the only animals on the planet who wear clothes.
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Clothing choices play a role in almost every social problem from school violence and drugs to poverty and gangs. To many, the word "fashion" means Paris, models, and high prices. In reality, fashion is basic self-expression for the only animals on the planet who wear clothes.
Why do we wear labels on the outside of clothes? Is body piercing a fashion or a fad? What's cool, what's hot? Why?
Learn:
- Do you students judge each other by clothing?
- Does clothing influence behavior? Do dress codes work?
- What do rappers, pro-athletes and celebrities have to do with how we dress?
Runtime: 20 minutes
Copyright 2000 Learning Seed
tags: culture
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Flattering Fashions: The six classic principles of design are shape, line, color, balance, proportion and texture. Understand how they apply to clothes and develop a personal style that highlights your best features. Ignore them and risk looking out of sync or unbalanced.
The six classic principles of design are shape, line, color, balance, proportion and texture. Understand how they apply to clothes and develop a personal style that highlights your best features. Ignore them and risk looking out of sync or unbalanced.
Flattering Fashions uses current styles and “real people” to teach young men and women how to select clothes from sweatshirts to formal wear.
This information-packed program shows students:
• How the body’s shape or silhouette controls what others see.
• How to use the power of lines to emphasize height, conceal weight, and create illusions.
• How to use color to attract attention or minimize size.
• How to create pleasing proportions and avoid the clumsy “half and half” look.
• Keys to balanced dressing.
• How texture and sheen influence appearance.
Runtime: 22 minutes
Copyright 2007 Learning Seed
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Sensible Steps to a Stylish Wardrobe: 2010 Discover how to select classic garments and which questions to ask before purchasing clothing.
Building a stylish wardrobe doesn't have to cost a fortune. Learn how to create and stick to a clothing budget, and how purchasing classic garments can be a great investment. See how to buy clothing online and the advantages of different payment options. Discover which five questions you should always ask before making a purchase, and how the "cost per wearing" formula can save you a lot of money - not to mention closet space.
Runtime: 19 minutes
Copyright 2010 Learning Seed
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Shopping Behind the Seams: Judging Quality in Clothes: Shows what to look for in clothing, and how to test clothing before buying. Learn what four questions to ask before you buy, how to evaluate a garment’s fabric and lining, and what high-quality seams, hems and pockets look like.
Telly Award Winner
Paying a high price for clothes does not guarantee quality. Viewers learn the ways to spot well-made clothes.
This program shows what to look for in clothing, and how to test clothing before buying.
Learn what four questions to ask before you buy, how to evaluate a garment’s fabric and lining, and what high-quality seams, hems and pockets look like.
Examine “vanity sizing” and how to buy the right size, what care labels can tell you about clothes they are on, and why frequent sales may mean rising prices, not bargains.
Running time: 20 minutes
Copyright 2009 Learning Seed
tags: consumer skills
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The Way We Dress: This program has been replaced by NEW DVD "Why We Wear Clothes."
This program has been replaced by "Why We Wear Clothes: The Functions of Fashion."
Click the link above to read a full description of the new program.
Explore the meaning and psychology of clothing. Viewers examine how clothing has changed from handcrafted garments made for a specific person to an industry of ready-to-wear clothes made for "market segments." The video explains how our idea of "dressing up" has changed drastically in the past twenty years and how fashion is a system of signals.
Learn:
- How attitudes toward "dressing up" change. Twenty years ago people "dressed up" to go to a movie or restaurant.
- How clothing changed from hand garments into an industry of ready-to-wear clothes.
- Does fashion "trickle down" from the cultured elite or "bubble up" from the masses.
- Why youth around the globe are obsessed with "American jeans, t-shirts, and footwear.
- How fashion changed from a system of signals about social standing into a way to express dreams and individuality.
Runtime: 24 minutes
Copyright 1996 Learning Seed
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