READING REPORT #4

Fashion Victim, summary 4, chapter 8- 9
I. summary
In chapter 8 “Wear and Tear” form “Fashion Victim” (2003, Broadway Books), Michelle Lee illustrated that several cases or problems about high heels, tight clothing, flammable clothes, used clothing. In addition, Lee explained that many special chemicals used in apparel industry would not only do harm to human, but also pollute our environment. He also researched that “fashion has historically been blamed for an array of health problems” (Lee, 2003, p216). Then in next chapter, Lee discussed that fur in fashion was certainly a typical example of “how fashion straddles the line between socially acceptable and offensive” (2003, p278). In the end, he showed that fashion victim still undertook the pain and cost.


II. Critique:
I agree that fashion causes many problems to us, such as lumbago form wearing a long time high heels. However, most people could not resist the lure of cute, but uncomfortable shoes and clothes, neither those doctors who know the harmful problems from following fashion. The fact is that every one likes beauty for satisfying their vanity. Is it possible that people wear sports shoes to attending a wedding? So in my view, we can accept the lure of fashion provided that we don’t wear these uncomfortable products frequently or put on them in some necessary situation, not every date. Apropos of fur in fashion, as what the author’s talked in the book that we can not stop using the fur, because we need fur to keep warm in winter, not only for fashion. We know the more we produce fur apparel, the more animals will die, but what if we control the hunting or raise more those animals?

III. Vocabulary
1. drastic: extremely severe or extensive
Eg: Many Africa countries face a drastic shortage of water.
2. dizzy: having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall; giddy
Eg: I will get drunk after having a whit of vodka.
3. lag: to move or develop slowly
Eg: Although Canada dollars are rising sharply, the product’s prices are lagging far behind.
4. tizzy: A state of nervous excitement or confusion
Eg: I am in a tizzy when I study level 6.
5. garnish: to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate
Eg: I like garnishing my creative dishes by putting other color vegetables.
6. faith: confidence or trust in a person or thing
Eg: During this project, I leave my entire faith on her.
7. bizarre: odd or very strange
Eg: I don't like his bizarre hair style, so I can not go out with him.
8. amend: to change for the better; improve
Eg: We should amend our faults after every fail.
9. depict: to represent or characterize in words; describe
Eg: Please depict the accident to the Police, but to me.
10. robe: A long loose flowing outer garment
Eg: Priests like wearing robes every where.
11. provocative: likely to rouse feeling, especially anger or sexual interest
Eg: That playboy is good at saying provocative words to women.
12. finite: having bounds or limits; measurable
Eg: The money parents offer us for studying is finite.
13. unabashed: Not disconcerted or embarrassed; poised
Eg: Nobody can be unabashed when they are giving a speech in public.
14. viable: capable of living
Eg: There is nobody will not be viable for another break with him or her.
15. muff: a warm tubular covering for the hands
Eg: I want to buy a pair of muffs for the guy I fall in love with slinkingly as a Christmas gift.

Fashion Victim, summary 3

Fashion Victim, summary 3
This time I got some new ideas form reading Michelle Lee’s book “Fashion Victim”. In Chapter 6, he quoted Melanie Suhr’s word “Fashion and our culture contribute to the problem”, who is a psychiatrist at Baylor college and PH.D.. (2003, p135) He also thought the fashion industry wasn’t responsible for having created our culture, but this didn’t mean that they didn’t have a responsibility for what they do. In next chapter, Lee talked about “Blaming Fashion”(2003, p171), which was about some negative aspects happening in the factories. He illustrated manufacturers paying lower salaries for workers in developing countries, offering harmful situation, ignoring injured workers, making out unreasonable rules, etc.

Vocabulary
1. Covet: To wish for longingly
EX: He won the prize they all coveted.
2. Bulimic: A Person who suffers an eating disorder,
EX: Bulimic will become fatter and fatter.
3. Bribery: the act or practice of giving or accepting a bribe
EX: That mayor should be convicted of bribery.
4. Lovey-dovey: amorously affectionate
EX: They are really a lovey-dovey couple.
5. woe: grievous distress, affliction, or trouble
EX: I cannot tell you my woe because you cannot understand me.
6. svelte: Slender or graceful in figure or outline; slim
EX: I hope I can be as svelte as a model.
7. sneer: smile contemptuously
EX: She sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano.
8. fierce: violent in force
EX: That murderer looks like a fierce lion.
9. exploitative: to use selfishly for one's own ends/
EX: Those workers hate their exploitative employer, even want to kill him sometimes.
10. jockey: To trick; cheat
EX: He jockeyed his position in his ex-company.
11. atrocious: Extremely evil or cruel
EX: That old man did an atrocious crime when he was a teenage.
12. semblance: An outward or token appearance
EX: When you feel sad, you don’t need put on a semblance of cheerfulness to us.
13. saccharine: very sweet to the taste; sugary
EX: Doctors recommend people cannot eat saccharine food very often.
14. manipulate: to manage or influence skilfully
EX: A leader should manipulate his group members’ feeling.
15. veteran: Having had long experience or practice
EX: The price should be rewarded to a veteran scientist.

READING REPORT #2

Fashion Victim summary 2, p21-43

In chapter 2 from “Fashion Victim”, Michelle Lee introduced some specific fashion era. He stated that our Stone Age counterparts had already created clothing to beautify themselves by adorning decorations from animals’ skins or teeth. Then he described bustles which represented the “social distinguish” (Lee, 2003, p22), as well as did harm to women’s health or life, from Victorian to the early twentieth. Nowadays, people become tacky following “the razzle-dazzle of advertising, media and celebrities”, Lee thought. (2003, p31) In chapter 3, the author said “Speed Chic is the crack cocaine of fashion”. (Lee, 2003, p34) He quoted Kirstie Clements’ word (an editor of Vogue Australia) to warn those addictive customers that “Everything can be fashionable for a minute—that is the fun element of the fashion business”. (2003, p36) The writer illustrated “the trend’s life cycle”: birth (from textile market), adolescence (from highlevel brand), maturity (“reverse bandwagon effect”) and death (from peak to retirement). (Lee, 2003, p37-39) Lee also pointed at that the high-speed fashion related to our general rush-rush state of the media, such as MTV, Internet, magazines, etc.

Vocabulary
1.Mania: excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze
2.Pied Piper: a person who induces others to follow or imitate him or her, esp. by means
3.Weary: impatient or dissatisfied with something
Eg: He is a maniacal pied piper who we are weary of talking with.
4.Trendy: of, in, or pertaining to the latest trend or style
5.Razzle-dazzle: showy; flashy; eye-catching
6.Faddish: intensely fashionable for a short time
Eg:The trendy are always Razzle-dazzled in Yorkdale by choosing some faddish cloth.
7.Snugness: fitting closely, as a garment
8.Predilection: a tendency to think favourably of something in particular
9.Blissful: a feeling of extreme happiness
Eg:After they have got a few snug garments, these younger who have a predilection for shopping will feel blissful.
10.Savvy: to know; understand
11.Esteem: To regard with respect
12.Tacky: not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy
Eg: According to my savvy, that esteemed author has never written this kind of tacky novel.
13.Poncho: A blanket like cloak having a hole in the center for the head.
14.Hem: an edge made by folding back the margin of cloth and sewing it down.
15.Obsolescence: falling into disuse or becoming out of date
Eg: In my view, this poncho adorned with double hems will become obsolescent in the near future.

READING REPORT #1

Fashion Victim, summary 1, p1-p20
ACCORDING to chapter 1 from “Fashion Victim”(2003), the writer, Michelle Lee, expatiated ten commandments of the Fashion Victim. He said many brands produced cheap chic but these goods were still at several times the price. Sometimes, they severed something for other purpose, but useless actually, Lee pointed. He also stated that we seemed to have a lot of different cloth, but in fact, we just had the same type. It was stupid for people, Lee argued, when they followed the label trustfully. We knew from the writer that Fashion victims usually lost their own ideas and the validation of their stylishness came from designers’. These victims also “throw money into a bottomless pit” (Michelle Lee, p10, “Fashion Victim”) when they had paid a lot of money on kids’ and pets’ exorbitant. Lee complained that people bought supersneakers with high prices, just for their new function or material. That was unnecessary. If a victim loved buying purchase with famous logo, he or she would “be a walking billboard” (Michelle Lee, p12, “Fashion Victim”). The writer persuaded that people should not merely follow the famous’ dressing style because some of them just had great resources. Lee also disagreed that costumers bought things depend on ads. In Chapter 2, Michelle Lee would discuss how we got fashion.

Vocabulary:
1. Fleece: a sheep's coat of wool
2. Strap: a narrow strip of flexible material, esp. leather, as for fastening or holding things together
Eg: Producers cannot use fleece to make straps in most cases.
3. Jersey: a sweater or pullover
4. Wardrobe: a cupboard in which clothes may be hung
Eg: You can put your jersey into my wardrobe if you don’t mind.
5. Prevalence: widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance
6. Sleeve: the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
7. Vendor: a person or agency that sells
Eg: That vendor has a prevalence sleeveless T-shirt which is dressed on the model.
8. Shabby: looking old and worn
9. Vogue: the popular taste at a given time
Eg: Nowadays, shabby clothes are vogue all over the world.
10. Cutesy: Deliberately or affectedly cute; precious
11. Chic: attractive and fashionable; stylish
12. Tulle: A fine, often starched net of silk, rayon, or nylon, used especially for veils, tutus, or gowns
13. Soiree: An evening party or reception.
14. Socialite: One prominent in fashionable society
15. Tote: to carry, as on one's back or in one's arms
Eg: Many of those cutesy girls dream that they could have a chic tulle dress to attend a soiree which is full of socialites, as well as toting a LV bag.

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