Essays on Bras

Moved by the need to understand what a female backpack contains, I decided to take the inventory of my backpack. The items in the backpack including the bags show that I am trendy. Below is a list of the items that I found. A 45 Liter Backpack (with wheels) which is not so big to become uncomfortable to carry but it is large enough to carry everything that I need. These are: a small backpack (18 liter) to use as a day bag to carry daily essentials such as water, guidebook, purse, phone, sunhat, snacks, scarf, and camera; walking ...

Victoria’s Secret is a leading company and was founded by an American designer Roy Raymond in 1977. The organization is categorized under the Apparel industry as it deals with women wear and beauty products. Primarily, Victoria’s Secrets used to produce women lingerie only, but the company grew to provide its consumers with an array of other products. The goods, which come in different styles and categories include underwear, sports bras, sleep attire, bras, panties, beauty products, and bracelets (Victoria’s Secret, 2017). An example of a product that comes in unique styles is the lingerie. The company ...

Introduction

Every product has a lifecycle that defines the impact it creates to the environment from the time of production, usage, and disposal. Life cycle assessment process assists in compiling and examining inputs and outputs of a product regarding materials and energy associated with its functioning throughout the life cycle. Life cycle assessment acts as an essential tool for decision support that helps policy makers and industries assess the cradle-to-grave of a product. The assessment analysis chemical production, material selection, design for environment and environmental impact, industrial ecology, and product lifecycle management (Yorzyk and Radzinski 1). The following paper assesses ...

In Gender Pluralisms under the Transgender Umbrella, Paisley Currah introduces two legal cases that are quite similar in their contexts but argued out in different ways. Currah chooses to stay neutral in both cases and state them as they are to the reader. The first case is about a seventh-grade girl, Pat Doe, who wishes to express her femininity while attending school by wearing makeup, skirts, tight skirts, padded bras, and high heeled shoes. Her attire was quite disturbing to her teachers at South Junior High, located in Brockton, Massachusetts. The main issue was her gender presentation because her ...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. (McNeese, 2006, p.105) Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the main representatives of the 20th century art, and the co-founder along with Georges Braque of Cubism. With significant contribution to the formation and development of modern and contemporary art, Picasso is one of the most prominent artists of the previous century, an artistic mastermind who managed to ...

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Introduction HIV is considered as a major global health issue. Approximately 38.1 million people have been affected by HIV since 2000 and over 25.3 million are known to have died due to HIV/AIDS associated health issues (Vermund, & Leigh-Brown. 2012).The global prevalence of HIV is 0.8% with nearly 36.9 million people to have been living with HIV as per a 2014 report. Nearly 2.6 million people have been infected with HIV. The number of HIV victims is high in low-income and middle-income nations. As per the 2014 data, nearly 1.2 million have died due to HIV associated diseases. As ...

Abstract

Pop culture of the 60s that originated in Britain and spread to US followed a string of philosophical and theoretical movement turning into mass culture. Pop culture has had many proponents in fashion, music and literature as well as numerous characteristic features. Studying the 60’s fashion design trends in ...

Many people are under the assumption that art exhibitions must contain paintings, sculptures, drawings, or other traditional forms of art. The artist must use paint, clay, or pencil to capture a feeling, a message, or an appeal, putting it on display for the audience. It is unclear why, but it seems that the audience cannot render a message fit for consumption unless it uses the typical artistic methods. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology acknowledges there are other art forms. FIT displays all types of artistic fashion as an exhibition to man’s triumphs and failures through time. Two recent ...

Overview of Victoria’s Secret

Founded in 1977 in San Francisco, USA, Victoria’s secret is undoubtedly the largest lingerie retailer in the United States. With pioneering designs and a wide variety, Victoria’s secret, an organization established by Roy Raymond, has emerged as the pace setter in as far as lingerie and women wear is concerned (Valdivia, 2000). The organization had an annual turnover of USD 6.12 billion in the year 2012, with a net profit of one billion dollars. The organization is prominently associated with fashion shows, powerful promotions and catalog marketing. The organization has 1000 outlets across the United States.

Overview of Frederick’s of Hollywood

Frederick Mellinger, the ...

TEXTILE DESIGN

The Mysterious Cycle: Fashion Repeats Itself The fashion cycle has been happening since people started wearing clothes. A basic fashion continues eto repeat thougou history. Trends and fashions seem unique to customers who buy and wear the fashion during a particular decade. In clothing skirt lengths change over the years. The hem of a dress or skirt cycles from shorter to longer over decades. This essay discusses the theory of fashion cycles and some examples in fashion and fabric. Fabrics of many varieties and compostions are used for fashion and interior design. There are new styles that are affecting fashion, ...

Statement of the Problem

Destin Bras Products Co. (Destin) is a company engaged in the manufacture of valves, pumps and flow controllers. Destin is a highly competitive company, having at its helm Steve Abbott, John Scott and Roland Guidry and is a local success story in Destin, Florida.

Recently, Destin has come under fire by way of significantly shrinking gross margins due to price pressure from competition. The production of valves has contributed about 24% of the company’s revenues and has comfortably retained a 35% gross margin. Pumps, which contribute 55% of total revenue, have been under siege recently because of similar pumps in the market ...

Using two advertisements from contemporary visual culture, discuss the exchange value associated with the commodity signs featured in them. How do these advertisements attract the "desiring gaze" of the consumer to encourage their normalisation? 1. "Glow" by JLO Print Ad

In this print advertisement, a perfume from recording artist Jennifer Lopez is marketed and endorsed using several unique commodity signs. For one, the typical comparison of the perfume bottle as a female body is made clear when placed side-by-side with the implicitly naked figure of Jennifer Lopez next to it. By directly alluding to the curves of the female body ...