Your Mother, Your Body

Within this article, we found a continuous pressure to be beautiful through your body. Rather than this pressure coming from our society, we see it more so through our mothers. A mother's nature since day one is to give their children nutrients through themselves. From breastfeeding to supplying their children with nutrients, it is their number one priority within motherhood to give the best form of health.

                                      

Depending on the mother's body image, it is reflected upon their daughter. For example, a heavy mother dresses her daughter in tight and body-hugging clothing to accentuate her body. She does this to, in a way, live vicariously through her daughters weight. This mother did not have the opportunity to wear flattering clothes because she had always been overweight. Another example we saw in the article was a grandmother telling her granddaughter to "suck it in" when she tried on a bathing suit. Her grandmother's words were instilled in the back of her head, leading to anorexia. This is just one of many ways an eating disorder is developed. Our mother's words mean the most to us because we trust their honesty. 

True Colors

The Latin Kings

The Bloods

The Crips

The bloods and crips are immensely associated with the colors red and blue, but to avoid any interactions with the police both of the groups now play down their colors. The only times they do not do this is when they are at any type of ceremonial events like funerals where they opt to wear Tommy Hilfiger and Fubu. The Latin Kings from the East used to be seen wearing beads in the color scheme of the gang which is black and yellow, but lately in society today they have started hiding them in a pocket. The three dots that are tattooed onto the gang members bodies symbolize, "la vida loca" rarely are hidden and never go out of style. 

Comparing the concept of changing the gang's dress code to today, we see this through modern Fashion. When a trend initially starts, most stores don't start to carry the clothing until it is excessively overdone (Forever 21). The beginning stages is when it is very hard to find in stores, making it exclusive. We can see this through a gang's Fashion. Once their dress codes are exposed to the police or authorities, it changes abruptly to become inconspicuous.  

The Enigma of Beauty

You know the famous saying, "Beauty is the eye of the beholder?" We see all people upholding beauty in a diverse way. "Perhaps we are truly human when we come to believe that beauty is not so much in the eye, as in the heart, of the beholder." Whether you're in Los Angeles or in Africa, beauty is a universal characteristic that everybody searches for and perceives differently. For example, us Femmes see beauty within the soul as well as eyes. As Fashion Marketing Majors, we can be perceived as being superficial and only finding beauty within materialism, but this is a false assumption. We find beauty within a person's heart rather than their new Giuseppe Zanotti shoes. 

Beauty is a feeling and not an object. A person is supposed to feel beautiful by being able to represent who they are as a person. You can't throw beauty on, therefore cannot be judged by it. Saying someone isn't beautiful is the same as saying somebody isn't happy, sad, or angry. You just can't define the feeling.