Homework Help for Communications

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Step 1: Use Your Imagination

In this unit, you have learned about people who have different types of disabilities yet want clothes and accessories that are stylish and functional. What kind of garment or accessory would you design that would be of practical use to someone who has a disability?

Step 2: Conduct Some Research

If you have a disability, think about which garments or accessories help you and which frustrate you. If you know someone who has a disability, you may want to ask that person’s permission to discuss how certain garments or accessories make life easier or harder. You can also use the internet to research disabilities.

Step 3: Generate Ideas

Think about a product that you could design that would help someone with a disability. This could include:

• a messenger bag or backpack for a person who uses a wheelchair and has limited upper-body mobility

• a purse for someone with arthritis

• a skirt that does not tangle in a wheelchair

• a shirt or dress that does not require the use of buttons and does not have to be pulled over the head

Step 4: Choose an Idea and Get It on Paper

Make a labeled sketch of the idea you like best. If you don’t want to sketch your idea, you can describe it in a paragraph instead.

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Required Materials

• Measuring tape or yardstick

• Word processing software

Step 1: Choose a Location

Read all the steps of this activity before you begin it. In this unit, you have learned about the importance of barrier-free design. Now it’s time to find out how much of your world is barrier-free for people who have disabilities. Choose a location to test. This can be within your school, such as your classroom, student bathrooms, the cafeteria, the gym, or a stage. Another option might be a community center or your local library.

Step 2: Research Local Laws

Use the internet to find out which laws apply to public or private buildings in your community, state, region, or country. Find two or three measurements to test. For example, how wide must a doorway to a classroom be to accommodate a wheelchair? How large must a restroom stall be? Where must fire alarms or light switches be placed? What about drinking fountains or sinks?

Step 3: Measure and Record Your Results

Measure the doorway, sink height, or other factors that you have chosen. Record your results and compare them to legal requirements.

Step 4: Report Your Results

Create a short video to send to the building owner (if it is a privately owned building) or to a local government official (if it is a publicly owned building), Describe what you found. Explain why the regulation you chose is necessary. For instance, it doesn’t matter if a bathroom stall can accommodate a wheelchair if the only doorway to the bathroom is too narrow for the person to reach the stall. Using the informal presentation techniques you learned about in this unit, do your best to present your ideas in a professional way.

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1 . Imagine you are part of a fashion club, and you are planning a fashion show at your local community center. One person in your group does not want to include models who have disabilities. What reasons can you provide to persuade this person that the show should include these models? Think about what this course has taught you about active listening, leadership, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, and working in groups. Then explain what reasons this person might give and what you could say in response.

2. Choose a topic from this unit that interests you, such as sustainable fashion, social entrepreneurship, including people with disabilities in the fashion world, or barrier-free design. Describe what you would like a mentor to teach you about this topic. Then describe how you would use your newfound skills to mentor others who have less experience in this area.

3. A group that advocates for barrier-free design has asked you to do some public relations work for them. What is a project that you could suggest to the group that would attract public attention and make people think positively about the group?

4. Find a label inside a garment that you own or that a family member owns. In a paragraph, write down the information for each of the four categories you learned about in the unit: fiber content, country of origin, name of manufacturer or dealer, and care instructions. Is any information missing? Did any of the information surprise you? Use the internet to find out about how far away the country of origin is.

5. In this unit, you learned how the environmental movement affected fashion. Do you take environmental issues into consideration when you buy, make, or wear clothes? If so, why? If not, why not?

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1 . Imagine you are part of a fashion club, and you are planning a fashion show at your local community center. One person in your group does not want to include models who have disabilities. What reasons can you provide to persuade this person that the show should include these models? Think about what this course has taught you about active listening, leadership, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, and working in groups. Then explain what reasons this person might give and what you could say in response.

2. Choose a topic from this unit that interests you, such as sustainable fashion, social entrepreneurship, including people with disabilities in the fashion world, or barrier-free design. Describe what you would like a mentor to teach you about this topic. Then describe how you would use your newfound skills to mentor others who have less experience in this area.

3. A group that advocates for barrier-free design has asked you to do some public relations work for them. What is a project that you could suggest to the group that would attract public attention and make people think positively about the group?

4. Find a label inside a garment that you own or that a family member owns. In a paragraph, write down the information for each of the four categories you learned about in the unit: fiber content, country of origin, name of manufacturer or dealer, and care instructions. Is any information missing? Did any of the information surprise you? Use the internet to find out about how far away the country of origin is.

5. In this unit, you learned how the environmental movement affected fashion. Do you take environmental issues into consideration when you buy, make, or wear clothes? If so, why? If not, why not?

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If you could create a social entrepreneurship company, which product or service would you provide, and which problem or challenge would you help to solve? Explain how you would avoid one social entrepreneurship pitfall you read about in this unit.

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You’ve learned four reasons people care about sustainable fashion: to use less land to grow cotton and other fibers; to reduce the amount of pollution from wastewater, dyes, and other chemicals; to protect workers; and to be kinder to animals. Which of these reasons do you consider MOST important? Explain your answer.

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1. Imagine you are part of a fashion club, and you are planning a fashion show at your local community center. One person in your group does not want to include models who have disabilities. What reasons can you provide to persuade this person that the show should include these models? Think about what this course has taught you about active listening, leadership, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, and working in groups. Then explain what reasons this person might give and what you could say in response.

2. Choose a topic from this unit that interests you, such as sustainable fashion, social entrepreneurship, including people with disabilities in the fashion world, or barrier-free design. Describe what you would like a mentor to teach you about this topic. Then describe how you would use your newfound skills to mentor others who have less experience in this area.

3. A group that advocates for barrier-free design has asked you to do some public relations work for them. What is a project that you could suggest to the group that would attract public attention and make people think positively about the group?

4. Find a label inside a garment that you own or that a family member owns. In a paragraph, write down the information for each of the four categories you learned about in the unit: fiber content, country of origin, name of manufacturer or dealer, and care instructions. Is any information missing? Did any of the information surprise you? Use the internet to find out about how far away the country of origin is.

5. In this unit, you learned how the environmental movement affected fashion. Do you take environmental issues into consideration when you buy, make, or wear clothes? If so, why? If not, why not?

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Step 1: Research Your Trading Cards

Athletes often have trading cards. Why shouldn’t designers and other people in the fashion industry? Your assignment is to create trading card–style summaries of a person’s job duties and accomplishments.

First, review the unit and go online to find out information about four to five people in the industry. These can include:

• Designers of clothing, accessories, or footwear

• Founders or leaders of professional or youth organizations related to fashion

• Entrepreneurs in the industry

• People in your community who work in fashion

Step 2: Create a Summary for Each Person

For inspiration and models, go online and search for images of trading cards. Then select or draw one image and create a brief summary for each person. You might include statistics, such as the dollar amount of products the person has sold or the number of fashion shows the person has participated in. Alternatively, you might describe their style or include a brief quotation.

Step 3: Finish and Distribute Your Trading Cards

If you are creating your cards with art supplies, take a photo of the front and back of each card. If you are creating your cards electronically, take a screenshot of the front and the back of each card and save the files as PDFs.

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Step 1: Start Seeking Trends

Thanks to the internet, many of the same tools that fashion forecasters have are at your disposal. Search the internet for recent fashion shows, which will indicate what is coming up next season. Look at recent fashion shows in major cities, such as New York and Los Angeles, to see where American fashion is headed. If you have recent print magazines that focus on fashion, you can use those as well. Notice the advertisements you see on the pages or as you scroll, and consider how those ads affect fashion trends. Think about where a particular look is in the fashion cycle. Is it edgy, trendy, popular, or a blast from the past?

Step 2: Search Based on Geography

Next, do some internet research on global trends. Look specifically at Paris fashion shows. You can also see what the major fashion magazines have on their websites in the European divisions. Fortunately, you don’t need to read French to know what is highlighted in French fashion. Take a few moments to check out Tokyo as well. If you happen to have recent French or Japanese fashion magazines, use those too.

Step 3: Focus on Celebrity Influencers

Finally, check celebrity gossip magazines or celebrity gossip websites to see what famous people are wearing around town and to formal events. Then look at Instagram and other social media to see what online influencers are emphasizing.

Step 4: Choose Two Trends

Based on your research, select two trends that you expect to see in American stores next year. Take notes to organize your thoughts.

Step 5: Create Your Fashion Forecast

Create a presentation that showcases the two trends. You can complete this using slideshow software, or you can use art supplies to make a poster or triptych that shows your results. If you prefer, you can use a hybrid method, with words in the slideshow software and visuals on a poster. Organize your presentation around these questions:

• How would you describe these two trends?

• Where have you seen them? Identify specific fashion publications or websites.

• How do they compare with trends of the past and trends of today?

• What makes you think North American manufacturers, buyers, stores, and customers will invest in them?

Step 6: Present Your Research and Analysis

Make your presentation to your classmates. Then discuss whether they share your belief that these trends will soon be coming to a store near you.

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Think about what you have learned about forecasting trends and the fashion cycle. For your own personal style, do you like to be ahead of trends, right in step with them, behind them, or completely separate from them? What about for your potential clients’ style? Explain your answers.

Answer the following as it talks about fashion

1 . Based on the descriptions of the body types we’ve learned about, what do you think is the hardest body type to dress given today’s fashion trends? Give some specific examples of styles that are trending now and how they would or would not work with certain body types.

2. Describe an outfit that would be inappropriate for an office workplace that requires business attire. Explain why it would be a problem.

3. If you had to make a fashion forecast for your school or community, where would you look for upcoming trends? Why?

4. Why are many of today’s designers and manufacturers offering clothing in a wider range of sizes?

5. You are a fashion designer who creates garments for individual clients. A client tells you that she recently had a professional fitting in a lingerie store and her bra size is 42C. Based on this information, determine the size of her rib cage in inches and the size of the fullest part of her breasts in inches.

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Think about what you have learned about the spectrum of fashion. What are the different ways clothes can be sold? With all these different ways of selling clothes, how does the fashion industry affect society? Does the fashion industry have a positive effect, a negative effect, or a mixed effect?

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At least five sentences

When you tried threading a sewing machine for the first time, what was the hardest part? Explain.

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This seems like a good time to ask the basic question, “How’s it going in class?” Feel free to offer constructive feedback about the course. Anything you like about the course so far? Please present at least one paragraph.

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What aspect of your sewing project came out best? Which part would you like to improve if you were to try it again? Describe your project and explain your answers.