Topic and Questions We Can Help You To Answer
Paper Instructions:
Prepare a document that will be saved as either a WORD or PDF file. Be sure to
put your name on your document in the upper right hand corner. Use 12 point
font. Your paper should be approximately three to four pages, double-spaced.
Consider the following questions. Write your responses to the questions in your
document. Be sure to elaborate appropriately so that you complete an
assignment of sufficient length and depth.
Clothing and Dress Recollections
for Self and Others
1. What is your earliest recollection of your own clothing? Do you remember a
specific item of clothing, or a general awareness of clothing? Was there a
specific activity or event associated with your earliest clothing recollection?
Please describe the item and what you remember about it, including activities
and events. Include your age in the description.
2. What is your earliest recollection of someone else’s clothing? How old were
you? Whose clothing was it? Describe the clothing, the circumstances and
environment, and why the clothing was particularly memorable to you.
3. Describe a situation in which you have felt very confident and pleased about your
dress/appearance. What was the situation? What were you wearing? How were
you adorned? Why were the impression and memory positive?
4. Describe a situation in which you felt “out of place” or uncomfortable because of
your dress. How did others react? What did you think they thought? What did
you think?
5. Is there anyone in public or private life that you admire and try to emulate, or
someone who influences you in some way? If so, who and why? What is the role
of dress in your perceptions and emulation goals?
6. Whose opinion(s) do you value most in the selection or evaluation of your dress?
Why?
7. What is your comfort level with cultural norms for dress and what aspects of your
dress are limited (or not) to cultural norms?
(In other words, are you offered security by conformity; do you tend to express
individuality? Do you wish that you could break free of cultural expectations?
How/Why? Describe…)
8. Reflect upon the connection between fashion and culture and your own ‘selfpresentation’?
