3 . Nowadays, it is common to see people wearing Hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han ethnic group, at parks and attractions. More and more people are falling in love with Hanfu culture. The development of Hanfu culture has witnessed (见证) numerous changes in recent years and is taking on various forms.

Zhang Xiaomin has been a fan of Hanfu for five years now. Thanks to the popularity of social media, she can easily learn the latest trends and knowledge about Hanfu online now. “People used to only collect or appreciate Hanfu privately,” Zhang said. “But now it has moved to the mass market.” In the past, many people had the misunderstanding that “Han” refers to the Han Dynasty. Now more people are knowledgeable about Hanfu, and even expert in distinguishing (区分) the differences in Hanfu from different dynasties.

Miss Tang has also noticed a similar change. “Fans have become particular about the design and style of Hanfu,” Miss Tang said. “For advanced hobbyists, those seemingly fairy-like Hanfu dresses are not enough, since this style has been adapted to meet the tastes of the masses. They care more about how original Hanfu style are, like Quju (曲裾) and Mamianqun or ‘horse-face skirts’, which look more serious and complicated.”

The development of Hanfu has also triggered (引发) different events. You Gancheng has been in Hanfu circles for 13 years. “The Hanfu festival that a museum held in April offered many interesting activities like lectures, ceremonies, concerts and fairs,” she said. “Hanfu culture weeks, festivals and academic forums all provide platforms for fans to communicate.”

The rise of Hanfu culture also means the birth of an emerging business. Miss Cang has been running a Hanfu store for four years. The store provides Hanfu rental and photography services. “Many international schools now come to us for Hanfu events on traditional holidays,” Miss Cang said. Her store also actively participates in Hanfu festivals. “We often run a stand in Hanfu fairs, selling and displaying Hanfu we’ve designed. Sometimes we even provide Hanfu as prizes for competitions,” she said.

6 . “How do they walk in these things?” complains Jack Lemmon, walking with difficulty in his heels, newly dressed as his another identity Josephine, in the film “Some Like It Hot”.

High heels were, in fact, originally designed for men — and had an extremely practical purpose. Soldiers on horseback wore them in 10th-century Persia, according to Elizabeth Semmel hack of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. The heel helped keep them stable as they stood up in their stirrups ( 马镫) and took aim at enemies with bows and arrows (cowboy boots still use heels in this way). Over time, heels appeared on the shoes of male nobles across Europe. Yet from the mid-17th century, heels became associated with supposedly “feminine” qualities, and so became women’s wear. Until the mid-20th century heels were heavy, heavy things. After the Second World War, techniques and materials used in aircraft engineering were applied to shoes, creating the stiletto ( 细高跟). The high, narrow heel requires a thin metal pole, strong enough to bear the wearer’s weight yet flexible enough to allow the shoe to move.

Shoemakers have searched actively for a right heel. They aim to reduce the angle created by a high heel, which forces the few square centimeteres of the ball of your foot to bear the entire weight of your body. Joan Oloff, a podiatrist-turned-shoe-designer, makes footwear lined with memory foam ( 泡沫) to absorb the shock of each painful step. The bottom part of the shoe is crafted to support the arch of the foot and distribute the wearer’s weight more equally. Antonia Saint Dunbar, an entrepreneur, makes shoes with a heel cup and strips inside to stop the foot slipping around and getting blisters ( 水泡). And growing numbers of companies make shoes with adjustable heels: two inches for the boardroom, four for the nightclub, none for home.

However, the wisest are stepping down altogether: in 2016, for the first time, more British women bought trainers than heels.

8 . Controlling how women dress, both in and out of the workplace, is nothing new. In ancient Greece, officials ensured that women dressed"appropriately".; Strict codes（规约）were designed to remind women of their place in society. In the following thousand years, not much. has changed.

In the early 20th century, women began entering the workplace in large numbers. But only, women who worked in factories or on farms could wear trousers. ,Women, who worked in offices had to wear the skirts and jewellery expected of their, sex. In the. 1970s, women got the freedom to consider comfort and style in what they wore in the workplace. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, women often wore trouser suits, like men do.

They wanted to break the glass ceiling and, with the popular idea of dressing, for success, they wore suits with big shoulder pads（垫肩）.

Today, what women wear in the workplace has as, many varieties as the jobs women do. However traditional standards for women's appearances still remain. In 2010, the Swiss bank UBS came under fire after its dress code got known, including detailed guidelines on applying makeup（化妆品） and avoiding small shoes that might cause women to have unnatural smiles. while there’re also dress codes. for men, they mainly represent professionalism. But to dress, like a woman suggests woman are decorative in the workplace. It ignores that women have independent ideas of how they wish to present themselves.

I have never been good at dressing like a woman. Throughout my 20s, I held different jobs, and what I wore to work ranged from jeans to T-shirts. In graduate school, I first thought that, when I became. a professor,I would have to wear suits to work, to look the par of someone, with a PhD. I quickly realized that there was no standard look to this par. Now I generally teach in jeans and dress shirts.

I wear clothes that allow me to feel comfortable and confident. That's how I. choose to dress like a woman. Dress has developed with the change of the role of women in contemporary society. Dressing like a woman means wearing anything a woman considers appropriate tor getting her job done.