Alison mentioned in “The Language of Clothing” that in American high schools, “strange children wear Lee, bad boys and girls wear Wrangler, and ordinary children wear Levi’s.” Whether it is a shrewd compromise to social order, everyone will expand themselves in a specific visual impression. Academic style and punk style are typical examples.

In order to enclose people in one position, we temporarily put aside the possibility of becoming another “I”, converging our sensibility and behavior to the same meaning. In order to paralyze the feeling of other possibilities, we have designed all kinds of uniforms: students, soldiers, judges, doctors, postmen, flight attendants, waiters, athletes… However, it is not just uniforms that enforce visibility coding. . The important thing here is that according to the different styles of composition, it implies a symbol of global difference. As long as this symbol is activated, all clothes are uniforms. For example, in our society, “men” cannot wear skirts. p99

“I” fragility this anxiety about one’s own visibility can sometimes cause a cascading effect, which escalates into collective neuroticism. For example, the clothing regulations in schools. Under the norm of “appropriate appearance”, we have strictly controlled our visibility: bangs cannot be longer than eyebrows. If the hair is long enough to be tied up, it must be tied up or braided. Drifting is prohibited. Hair, dye hair, perm. p135

My visibility, this “me”, is finally known from others when I can’t see it. It’s like blindfolding and exposing his naked body in front of people. The existence of visibility is so scattered, we want to bring it under our own jurisdiction, fill the gap of visibility, always dream of enclosing ourselves in a completely enclosed membrane, and want to build a wall for ourselves, Interfere with your own visibility.

This kind of tearing in contradictions of fashion, suffering in “proportionality”, or people struggling in the imbalance of self-existence itself, is a real problem. “People often split and oppose themselves”

从这开始写reflection

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Reflective statement:

I looked in particular at chapter two of this book: “Hidden intent: Imaginary edge”. Here the author discusses the fragility of personal image, influenced by various aspects and people.

I was surprised to learn that in the open environment of the United States, dressing is much more open and free than in other countries and that there are also have examples of what types of kids wear what brands of clothes. College style and punk style subcultures with specific dressing styles are all coded with the same visibility, and each person follows a set of fixed dressing that others classify as their impression.

I learned from this article that visual coding is not only for school uniforms, but as soon as this symbol is activated all clothes are uniforms, for example, men cannot wear skirts, and skirts become uniforms for girls. What each person should do and wear seems to become a uniform for everyone.

The author mentions that fashion is always painful and on the verge of struggle, this is exactly what I want to change, I think clothing as a language has a great potential to bring people confidence and happiness.

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Reflective statement:

I looked in particular at chapter two of this book: “Hidden intent: Imaginary edge”. Here the author discusses the fragility of personal image, affected by various aspects and crowds.

The book mentioned the case of American high schools. I was surprised. It turns out that in the open environment in the United States, dressing is much more open and free than in other countries. There are also examples of what kind of clothes are worn by all types of children. Academic JK uniform style and punk style subcultures with special dressing styles have the same visibility code, and everyone follows a set of fixed clothes that others have divided their impressions of.

I learned from this article that visibility coding is not just school uniforms, as long as this symbolizes that all clothes are uniforms, for example, men can’t wear skirts, and skirts become girls’ uniforms. What everyone should do and what to wear seems to be everyone’s uniform.

The author mentioned that fashion is always painful and on the verge of struggling. This is exactly what I want to change. I think clothing as a language has great potential to bring people confidence and happiness.