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Women in the Beauty/ Fashion Industry

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On a normal everyday basis, you probably think about things like sleep and food rather than the differences in the roles, responsibilities, restrictions between modern day and women and those of the past. 

 I'm glad that this course allows me to acutely study that which many don't seem to think about, and is yet so significant to our history: how the representations of women have changed over time. 

 I like how it give us the choice, flexibility and freedom to choose what to do based on our personal interests and understanding (within a given field of course)

 Over the past decade, society has gone through a few unprecedented cultural shifts. One of the biggest one I think being the change(s) in the beauty and fashion
industry.

 Compared to just a decade ago where ads would have typically been filled with tall, skinny and lean models just like this (though this wasn't taken ten years ago)


There are now ads which feature women of all shapes and size, people of colour, people with disabilities, France has just banned companies from hiring underweight models!

While it's a start it's still not enough. I plan to use this course as a way of discovering the various driving factors behind such changes.

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  1. Yitong Li6 February 2018 at 03:17

    I think it really interesting that companies used to advertise clothing as the perfect fit , or even modern times with the one size fits all. The fact that France is taking initiative against this is incredible and I'm also looking forward to finding out what drives industries to change their ways after all these years.

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