How important is Fashion?
If the purpose of fashion is to make a person feel good, it does not make sense that he or she would go through so much discomfort to be fashionable.
| A．Fashion should not come first. |
| B．People spare no effort to become fashionable. |
| C．Is looking fashionable more important than being comfortable? |
| D．People will often judge others based on what they wear. |
| E．Some people spend several hours a day in front of a mirror. |
| F．By doing these things, you can keep a healthy lifestyle and truly grow as a person． |
| G．Fashion is important for many reasons, including being a form of personal identity. |
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She had made a “huge” mistake — at least in the eyes of the school — by wearing a top that showed her collarbone. It was against the school’s dress code.
“This is ridiculous!” Stacie Dunn, Hughes’s mom, wrote on the social media site Facebook. “Something needs to change!”
The incident has become an Internet sensation. Across the US, schools like Woodford are being criticized for their dress codes. Some say the rules are especially unfair to young women.
Over half of US public schools have a dress code, and they are often different for girls and boys, according to the National Center for Education Statistics in the US. Some dress codes, for example, ban skirts and ask for pants to be at least knee-length.
Some have pointed out that these rules are mostly for female students. Women’s clothes are usually cut to be more fitted and shorter, while men’s clothes are longer and looser. In practice, more women will be caught breaking dress codes. The New York Post reported that last year, one school in Staten Island, New York gave 200 dress code detentions in two weeks－90 percent of which went to female students.
Some school administrators say they simply want students to dress professionally to prepare students for their future careers. But others have told female students that their clothes present a “distraction” to male students. That idea is being criticized.
The “distraction” argument is unfair to women, critics say. It suggests that exposed skin means that you want criticism or sexual advances.
“These dress codes mean that girls are getting very clear messages that men have a right to your body in public spaces and it’s socially acceptable, but you will be punished,” Laura Bates, a co-founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a project that aims to promote equality between men and women, told The Atlantic.
Some students have taken action to change the situation. They have started online campaigns and made short films to build public support.
Certain schools have now chosen to think again about their dress codes with parents and students. Even Woodford County High School — home of the “collarbone” ban — is thinking again about its policies. But, at least for now, the dress code debate is far from over.
1. The underlined phrase “dress code” in Paragraph 2 means in the article.
| A．rules for dressing |
| B．bans on wearing certain clothes |
| C．policies for dressing professionally |
| D．policies on what to wear for special occasions |
| A．Her daughter making big mistakes in class. |
| B．Showing collarbones being considered a huge mistake. |
| C．Sharing the incident on Facebook. |
| D．Being called in to school. |
| A．women’s clothes are loose and long |
| B．they are often caught breaking them |
| C．they often dress in a way that draws attention |
| D．women’s clothes are often short and fitted |
| A．many students ignoring their school dress codes |
| B．students starting online debates and campaigns about the incident |
| C．some schools reconsidering their policies with parents and students |
| D．public support of more discussions about equality between men and women |
【推荐2】A New Fashion Trend
Fashion designers are always looking for new materials to work with. Lately, it’s all about sustainable materials — recycled tires, mushrooms, even pineapple fibers! What if you want a sustainable pair of shoes? Thaely is here to help.
This sneaker brand out of Dubai wants to fight the growing problem of plastic pollution. Led by 28-year-old Indian businessman Ashay Bhave, they may have found a winning strategy: making shoes out of plastic grocery bags. “Thaely” means “plastic bag” in the Hindi language.
“I was looking to create footwear that is cost-effective and safe for the environment,” Bhave said in an interview with the Khaleej Times newspaper. “I needed to come up with something that uses recycled plastic without creating any more plastic waste.”
Plastic bags were the perfect solution. Bhave’s home country, India, banned single-use plastics. However, in an interview with Elle magazine, Bhave said it’s poorly enforced. He said five trillion (万亿) plastic bags are used around the world each year. “I was motivated to find a solution to this problem,” Bhave said.
That solution was the fabric called ThaelyTex. Made entirely from plastic bags, the material looks and feels like leather, Bhave claimed. That sounds promising. Better yet, the production process requires no additional chemicals and releases no toxic by-products. The end result is a smart-looking pair of white low-top sneakers.
Thaely wouldn’t reveal the full process for making Thaely Tex, but he said that each pair of shoes is made from up to 15 plastic bags and up to 22 plastic bottles. Where do they get so much material? Bhave told Elle that was the hardest part. “The biggest challenge we faced was right at the first step of acquiring the plastic bags.”
Finally, they got help from Trio Tap Technologies, a waste management plant. Bhave said they offered to collect the bags and also to process them into ThaelyTex. So far, it seems like things are falling into place. There are already hundreds of pre-orders in place. It sounds like they have some plans for the future. “We have a few more colours coming up,” said Bhave. They also plan to put out a high-top model and introduce a line of clothing. Let’s hope their growth is also sustainable.
1. The underlined word “winning” in Paragraph 2 means “________”.| A．absolutely perfect | B．highly profitable |
| C．legally responsible | D．mutually favourable |
| A．Plastic bags are a threat to the shoe making industry. |
| B．Making shoes with plastic bags is pollution free. |
| C．The ban on plastic bags doesn’t work well in India. |
| D．Making money is the top priority for shoe designers. |
| A．pollution-free and colourful | B．eco-friendly and leatherlike |
| C．readily available and popular | D．good-looking and durable |
| A．fashion doesn’t necessarily have to pollute | B．changing fashion is a creation of waste |
| C．traditional fashion style is new again | D．recycled fashion meets customers’ needs |
【推荐3】Have you noticed that many of the clothes on the street look the same these days?
“Punks (庞克族) add zips (拉链). Skaters hang chains (链子) from their trousers. You don’t need money — you need imagination,” said Alexi, an art student from Aldershot.
Everyone knows that students don’t have a lot of money.
“I used to make clothes sometimes when I was a student. Once, I found a pair of trousers in a shop that I really liked, but I couldn’t afford them. I bought some fabric (布料) in the same color and copied the trousers using my mum’s sewing machine (缝纫机).
| A．I loved it when people didn’t believe I had made them myself. |
| B．So how do young people show their individual styles? |
| C．Buying second-hand clothes is also a fashion choice for many young Brits. |
| D．That doesn’t have to be a problem if you’ve got a bit of imagination. |
| E．With the click of a button, you can decorate a T-shirt with your own creative worlding. |
| F．Printing your own T-shirt is the easiest and most common way to show your individual style. |
| G．Even jeans and T-shirts can be stylish if you feel comfortable in them and choose the right ones. |
