Fashion

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Your wiki blog must clearly explain the process you took to research their topic. Each entry also explains the creation of the visual aid/activity, which must be posted on this site the day after the party, May 4th. Students should write their first name and last initial as their "username" (LisaS) and include the date in each entry. Each week your entry should look like the following:

LisaS - April 12, 2012

Paragraph One - Full Sentences with proper grammar and spelling. Answer the questions below.

Paragraph Two - Full Sentences with proper grammar and spelling. Answer the questions below.

Answer the following questions in 2 paragraphs per week for each student in the group:
 * 1) What books/websites did you use for research?
 * 2) How to do you know that they are reputable sites?
 * 3) What are your goals for the week? Did you complete each goal?
 * 4) What specific tasks do you have to complete as a part of your group?
 * 5) What difficulties have you encountered? How did you solve the problems?
 * 6) What is your favorite/least favorite part of the project this week?
 * 7) Self evaluation - How did you work individually and/or with your group?
 * 8) Do you think you contributed as much as the other members of your group?
 * 9) What are your goals for next week?
 * 10) Other information you think is relevant and significant to include.

BEGIN STUDENT ENTRIES- WEEK ONE:

SIXTIES PROJECT DAY 1 (Thursday April 12, 2012)

Sophie

Since today was our first day it was mostly choosing what we were going to do and starting research. I choose to do Women’s High fashion, which evolves lots of celebrities and the elite. I started by searching whom the big designers and fashion icons were at the time, after I choose a select few I began to research their clothing and bookmark my favorites. I was looking for inspiration and their iconic looks that were copied lots at the time by cheaper designers for people with a bit less money. I found that there were lots of different types of designers in the sixties, most likely because of how many fashion changes happened in those 10 years.

I also looked at the clothes themselves, what they looked like, how they were made, and what they were made up. It was interesting to see the difference between what was used to make lower class dresses verses the upper class. The dresses changed a lot over the years from very conservative below the knee length to mini skirts that showed almost everything. I used lots of blogs, fashion sites, and Google images to find good photos of dresses. I found that websites like Vogue and Tumblr had some great images that are very helpful in finding. My goal for this week was just to start research and start learning what I could and so far I think its going quite well.

Eve 4/12/12 --mod fashion--

During the early to mid1960's mod, or modernist as the official name was a giant part of 1960's fashion. This particular style was mostly worn by teens and young adults. The mod style originated from England and had a lot to do with getting out of the 50's boring post war look. Getting away from the pastels and pencil skirts and trading that in for bold bright colors and geometric patterns. The websites i found most helpful are, www.modcloth.com, and www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/mod-fashion.htm

Aspects of the mod look include, but are not limited too, Wearing short miniskirts that originated in this time era and caused controversy because women had never worn skirts 7-8 inches above there knees. Short dresses with cutouts in them or bold patters where also big, But the most important part was to look clean cut, not sloppy, or unpolished. Mod hair also became quite big with the very short boyish cut the girls adorned and the short bobs with bangs and angular hair styling. Next week the girls fashion group will work on the pamphlets to hand out to our female classmates about what the appropriate attire will be.

Ishara 4/12/12 Girl's fashion

While researching some of the sixties hair, I noticed that these styles are like the ones we wear today. Some have been manipulated in different ways but they are pretty much the same. Sixties hairstyles are very high. They are never flat down like the way we usually wear our hair. Have you seen //Hairspray?// The movie takes place in the sixties and a big fashion trend is the high hair. The jewelry is very colorful and big. Sometimes using big beautiful flower clips to put into you’re big hair. Sixties fashion isn’t just a dress and go-go boots as people would think. The outfits are in bright pastel colors. The dresses usually don’t come far above the knee. Remember they weren’t as provocative as we are today.

I noticed the shoes are pretty ugly. =P They didn’t wear high heels, it was usually inch high. Other than that they wore flats. Color-wise they wore bright Pinks and greens and yellows. Sometimes they wore go-go boots, which seems to be the shoe the sixties are remembered for. Sometimes the shoes would have an on-going design. The makeup is pretty much the same for every picture I came across. It’s bright greenish yellow eye shadow and bubblegum pink lips with long eyelashes. The fabric of the gloves they wore is usually suede, leather, or cloth. They usually only come to the wrist or in the middle of the wrist and the elbow. Ok, that’s all for now.

RickiH 4/12/12-Men Hippies

Searching for men’s fashion in the 1960’s was more challenging then I thought it would be. Every website I visited gave me the same information; bright and colorful suits, fitted suits, bell bottom jeans, tie dye, and rocker. And as for the hair, I got the same things also; long hair, mod top, or greased back. I discovered there isn’t very much variety. However with the hair, each year it slightly changed. My role in the group is researching the hippies style for men 1960’s. The hippies are relatively known as for what they wear. I looked at a lot of costume websites. One particular website I found was sixtiesbritain.co.uk. That covered everything including bell bottoms, tie dye, hair, shoes, practically anything hippie related. Within the next few weeks I hope to start working on the pamphlet for the project.
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Brookeap April 13,2012 -Male Fashion(Mods and Rockers)- Today being the first day of the research process of the project, the Fashion group decide to split into to 2 separate groups. One group for women's fashion and one for mens fashion. I chose the Mens fashion group. When I was researching I notice that the information became more receptive the more I searched. I had 2 different styles to research. Mods and Rocker. The Mods mirrored their clothing and hair from French and Italian designers. They wore Italian suits, slim shirt and button down pants. For informal party they wore tailored tees and Levi flare jeans. Mods only wore Levi jeans. They also wore winklepicker shoes, which had two inch heels and razor cut hairstyles like The Beatle Cut. Their colors stayed dark as well as the Rockers.

The Rockers wore loose fitting clothing. Regular tee shirts, Levi's jeans or Wrangler jeans, Brothel Creepers and a ton of leather. Leather caps, leather boots, leather trouser and had the perfect accessory to got with it, a motorcycle.They even had the classic greased pompadour. The rockers weren't usually welcomed to go to formal events. It’s funny how I picked these groups because the two weren't so fond of each other. The rocker saw the mods as being snobs. The mods saw the rockers as being grubby. Hopefully next week we can start working on the pamphlets. One of the sites I used to research was [|__http://sixtiesbritain.co.uk/lifestyle/2010/11/11/60s-mens-fashion-mods/__] and [|__http://www.themodgeneration.co.uk/2009/01/mod-hairstyles.html__]

Jade! 4,12,2012... Men's Fashion Today was the first day of us getting started on the 1960's project. We talked and decided to split the group into two, one group for women's fashion, the other for men's fashion. I chose to be in the mens fashion group, at first we did a lot of combined research to get the feel of things. Later we each picked a specific type of mens clothing, I decided to go with mens formal fashions. I noticed that some of the suits back then looked a lot more colorful, they were in colors like orange, blue and even rainbow stripes like this one down below. The shoes however were somewhat similar as todays dress shoes, leather oxfords with a bit of a heel. .

The hairstyle varied through out the 60's, but a very formal hair style was to have your hair parted to one side and then slicked back with gel. As the years went on more non formal longer hair started to become popular, influenced by the Beatles one of the most popular hairstyles became something called a "mop top". Some difficulties I've had with the project is finding different types of formal fashion, mens formal wear seems to have a lot smaller range compared to women's formal wear. I think the group as a whole got to a pretty good start considering it was are first day, we all know what we need to work on and find more information about. Next week I hope that we can make a plan to make pamphlets so we can show the others students, and give them an idea on what they could wear.

** STUDENT ENTRIES ** ** WEEK TWO - 4/17/12 **

RickiH 4/17/12-1960's Mens Fashion Today I created the pamphlet we will be handing out to everyone. Our pamphlet is about the mens fashion in the 1960's. This was the goal that we had set for this week and we achieved it. The hardest problem I encountered was the amount of writing we could do. The textbook was not that big so we had to be careful about how much we wrote. It was also hard fitting the pictures in. The pictures were large and so they wouldn't drag and drop, so I had to go and insert them and then change their size. That was nuisance.

Since we were using my computer, I was creating the pamphlet. The other members in my group were feeding me the information. This worked out really well. My favorite part was going over what we shouldn't wear. My ideal outfit was crushed when they said that we can't wear a bikini. I think I did really well this week, and did a lot of work. Next week we are going to be planning out how we will be doing the fashion show. The fashion show will be put on at the party. We will be choosing the 3 best dressed men and women to represent the fashion and walk the catwalk.

Eve- april 17th

This week the girls group and the boys group made a pamphlet to had out to the other girls and boys advising them what to wear for the 60's party. We split the pamphlet into different sections. One part for casual wear another for Fancy or upper class and another for mod fashion. We also had another section telling them what not to wear to advise them further. We made a source page and put down some of the sources we could remember and also had a brief description of what this pamphlet was for and how it'll help you.

We all came up with another idea that we'll all start working on next tuesday. The idea is to have a fashion show or contest. When people come in to the party on may 3rd the fashion group will choose the 3 best dressed sixties girls and 3 best sixties guys. They will then walk down a runway like thing and show off what they are wearing. Another thing we will also do next week is hand out the finished pamphlets to the other people.

Ishara 4/17/12

Today we did a lot of planning instead of research. Since we mostly got all of our research done last week we decided on what to do and got some cool ideas for the party. We made as scedule for the rest of the time that we will be working on the project. Today we worked on pamphlets for the 9/10 team so they could know what we are doing. Brooke, Jade, and Ricki did a pamphlet for mens fashion and Sophie, Eve and I did a pamphlet for womens fasion. We managed to finish both pamphlets with time to spare and Rick hovering over us making us uncomrotable.

We decided that for the party we would have a fashion show. We drew out a game plan on the board so we know exactly what's going to happen. We tried to keep things organized so things would be easier for us. We decided that the three best dressed and most appropriate dressed students would go on stage and show everyone their outfit. We wanted to have a full on fashion show with lights and a long catwalk but we realized that that's not reasonable. We aren't including ourselves because we all know that we are the best dressed of the team. =)

Brookeap 4/17/2012

Today we worked on the pamphlets that is a guide for the other students on what to wear to the 1960's party. We made separate pamplet's, one women's attire, ones for mens. We named the pamphlet "1960's Mens Fashion". Each sections in the pamphlet is dedicated to one topic. The flap page explains what the pamphlet is for. The inside left explains what each style is and what they wore in the 60's. The middle has pictures of the different styles of clothing people would wear. The inside on the right explains the accessories and hairstyles to wear with the style clothing picked. On the back of the pamphlet there are sources that we used, our names and what not to wear to the party.

We also decide that we should have a mini fashion show at the party. We would pick the best dressed guests at the party and the fashion group would be the judges to pick a winner. Next week we will be handing out the pamphlets to the other students and teachers attending the party. We will also be planning the fashion show and coming up with styles to wear for ourselves.

Jade! 4/17/12

This week we worked on pamphlets like we planned last week, my group work on the 1960's men's fashion pamphlet and the other group worked on the 1960's woman's fashion. We are planning to give the pamphlets out next week, this way the students and teachers can get an idea on how to dress for the 1960's party. The pamphlet also explains what NOT to wear, so this way nobody will come in something crazy, or some outfit that doesn't have anything to do with the 60's style. Some pictures were also included for influence and ideas, if you look and read the pamphlet you might see that you actually have some of this stuff in your closet.

We even included hair, accessories and shoes so that people can pair it with their outfits. Next week we are going to plan on making a fashion show, this will go on during the party. We are going to pick the three best dressed guys and three dress best girl to show them off their style. We are also going to pick out our own outfit next week, including hair, accessories, ect.

Sophie 4/18 The week we begun (and ended) work on our pamphlets. Our group brainstormed ideas of how to put it together and made many changes until we found one we liked. We split the pamphlet into sections for each category: High Fashion, Mod, and Causal. The main problems we had were trying to figure out how to fit all of our information from the previous weeks into the small spaces we were given. After we all created our own sections together we worked on an opening page and a page for what NOT to wear. For this part of the project we mostly used information we already had and did not need a lot of Internet, the only time we used it was to find photos for our pages on the pamphlet. And when we were not working on the pamphlet we came up with the idea for a fashion show! We came up with the idea that the day of the party we pick the three best dressed and put them on a runway to display there clothing.

I felt like this week we all worked really well together, while we did come across problems we managed to calmly solve all of them. As for myself I think I did work really hard, I kept going and tried to find something to do even when I really had nothing just so I could keep contributing. I think we all worked as hard as we could to make this pamphlet the best that we could make it. Next week we plan on presenting our pamphlet to the class and planning our fashion show!

** STUDENT ENTRIES ** ** WEEK THREE - 4/24/12 **

April 24th Eve

today in the fashion group we were being pretty productive. Both the boy and girl groups finished there pamphlets to hand out to everyone. Everyone seemed to know how to read it and use it to there advantage which was good. In the pamphlet for the girls there were 3 sections one was "Mod" another was "casual and then "upper class" which offered a lot of different options. After that a couple of people in the girls group made a prezi presentation for the day of the party to show what we all did.

Today we also started talking about the fashion show and how it would work. The point system was determined and is out of 10 points. i made the flyer to advertise for it and went around and handed them all out and posting them up places. Because next tuesday is the last tuesday before the party we will be double checking plans and getting everything ready for the coming thursday.

April 24th,2012 Brooke Today, the mens and women's fashion group made their final touchs on their pamplets. When both of the fashion groups finished the pamphlets, we all fold them up and handed them out to everyone. Most people seem pleased with the pamphlets and didnt really ask for further information. The Mens pamphlet had 3 different sections, Clothing, pictures and accessories and hair. Also today both groups made presentations. The mens group made theirs on power point explaining what we did in the mens group and what we learn.

Towards the end of the day we started talking about the fashion show that well be happening the day of the party. We determined how to score people, like how much points it is, if someone wears a dress. We also made flyers for the fashion show and I think we determined a prize but we have to make sure first. Some of the girls started looking at clothes for themselves to wear at the party.

Jade! April, 25th, 2012 This week we finished up are pamphlets, we printed them out and folded each and everyone of them. We then handed them out to all the students, and also the other teachers that are coming to the party. We also put together our presentation that we are going to show at the party, the mens fashion did one as well as the women fashion. Me, Brooke and Ricki made a power point, we made a timeline of fashion from 1960-1969 with descriptions and pictures. The women's fashion I believe did the same thing, but they used Prezi instead.

Towards the end of the class we started working on the fashion show, we made requirements on how it is we are going to judge everyone. We are going to judge and score based on appropriate shirt, pants, shoes, hair and accessories, who ever gets the most points wins. The first place winner even gets a homework pass, meaning that they don't have to do a homework assignment and still get credit for it. Next week we are probably going to finalize our presentation, and pick out what we are going to wear.

Sophie 4/25/12 This week we spent most of the time working on our final presentation and handing out pamphlets. Ishara and I working on a Prezi for the party day to describe what we had been doing. It was a hard process finding all the photos we needed but in the end it turned out really well! I did frustrate us a lot so instead of working on that the whole time I handed out the pamphlets to the class. It was great going from room to room and showing off them because of how hard we had worked, I felt really proud of the work we had done.

Even though I do think I did work hard I know I was not the strongest worker this week. I think Eve was, she helped edit the pamphlets, helped choose photos for the Prezi and made a flyer for the fashion show. Speaking of the fashion show we also started planning that, we choose how we were going to judge people and get them motivated, and what their prize would be if they won. Overall I think we worked really hard this week and got a lot done. I can’t wait for next week!

Ishara 4/26/12 This Tuseday when working in the fashion group I think we all made a lot of progress. We needed to work on our presentation for the party and Rick suggested we use Prezi. None of us were that excited about it but he said it was the best way to do the project for picures. So me being a boss at Prezi (Ask Dan and any 8th or 9th grader), I was the one to do the project on there. And it looks awesome. While working on Prezi I got a little stressed. It would not do what I told it to do so I took a break and Played with Rio. After my break I realized what the problem was and finished with plenty of time to spare.

Then I was put on folding duty. I had to take the pamphlets and fold them pamphlet style. That was boring and annoying. Once done with the pamplets I really had nothing to do. All of a sudden I'm being forced against my will to learn a 1960's dance. I totally forgot what it was called but it was pretty easy to learn. It wasn't the torture I thought it was, it was actually fun. While waiting around looking for something to do I ended up finishing some homework on my phone. I'm so preductive! Then I wen't back to playing with Rio. I probably should have done more homework or update my wiki (which I totally forgot to do) but what's done is done. :D

RickiH 4-26-12 This past party planning day was spent mostly on putting the finishing touches on the pamphlet, folding them, getting the aligned, ect. Unfortunately that tuesday I was not in the best mood, something earlier that day made me a little pissed, so I was not too involved. I taught Brooke how to use powerpoint, so she could make the actual presentation we have to show the class. After folding, being the dancer I am, I was forced to learn a dance that was going to be taught at the party. Surprisingly it wasn't too bad and I actually enjoyed it.

After everything was finished, instead of updating the wiki like i was supposed to, I went onto Brooke's phone and started looking at clothing inspirations from modcloth.com. I found some pretty interesting stuff, but I still had fun looking at it. Today I actually got the outfit I am going to wear.

**STUDENT ENTRIES -** **WEEK FOUR - 5/1/12** **DON'T FORGET TO POST YOUR FINAL PRESENTATIONS/ACTIVITY PICTURES BY FRIDAY!!!**

Eve

This week was our last week to get everything done for the fashion group for thursday. We all had to figure out about our presentations and practiced them the way we would present them. we also needed to finalize the details for the fashion show by trying to find out where the runway was going to be and how the people would walk down it. For the prizes they are 2 homework passes each for the girl and boy winner. I made up the template and they are getting printed out or thursday. We don't really have anything else to work on today because we're all done. (next paragraph after the party)

Brooke 5/4/2012 Tuesday was the last day to work on the 1960s project. I was not there on tuesday. I do know that the men's fashion group tried to practice the presentation but had difficultly doing that because one person was missing and other personal things were going on with another member of the group. At the party people presented their presentations. Of course the mens fashion group was nervous about our presentation because we didn't get to practice but I think we did pretty good. The music and dance group was very entertaining. We learned dance moves that they did in the 1960's and listened to some songs that the group played. After that we ate food like mac and cheese, ribs and drank shirley temples.

Jade! 5/1/12 Mens Fashion This week is our last week meeting all together, and this thursday will be the party. So today was for our final touches, we finalized all our presentations and rehearsed them a couple of times. We also put the finalizing touches to the fashion show, we even went over to the theater to see how we our going to have everything set up. Me, Ishara and Brooke will be the judges, Sophie will be taking photos, Ricki will be telling the contestants/models to go on stage and Eve will be the MC.

Jade! 5/4/12 This thursday was the 1960's party, I think it went really good. The woman's fashion group presented first, we had some technical difficulties in the beginning but we fixed them. After that I presented in the mens fashion group, both presentations lasted for about 10 minutes each. When we finished that we started up the fashion show, the two winners were Leo and Ori. When we were done all our fashion stuff we watch the other groups presented, we got to listen to music, learn dances, and eat really yummy food.

Sophie 5/4/12 The last week of the 60's party started out with final party planing. On tuesday we finalized who would be presenting what and how the presentations would go. We decided that because Eve was MC-ing the fashion show Ishara and i would present the Perzi. It took several times to figure out how we would present but in the end we got it all figured out. That afternoon we went to the theater and mapped out how the fashion show would run and taped it down.

Thursday was the day of the Party! Our group went second. Before we presented we encountered 2 problems. First, the internet went down, and Second, when we plugged my computer into the projector the screen went wacky! But thankfully the actual presentation ran smoothly, Ishara and i went first, we were then followed by the Boys presentation and the fashion show. In the end we chose 6 students to walk, Leo, Jake, Richard, Ori, Robin, and Gillian. They all looked great but in the end Leo and Ori won. All in all i think the day went great. All the other presentations and the food were amazing! It was a really great time.