Objectives:

• Evaluate personal values and paradigms around body decoration and physical beauty.
• Investigate how physical appearance affects definitions of identity and belonging.
• Analyze values and belief systems of physical appearance across cultures, sub-cultures and generations.

Original Post:

I am the person who really do not care about my own dressing or outside look. I think dress is just to resist cold outside and keep out people’s important parts of body. My belief is that people should not over consider what they dress or body adornment. Clothing is just surface. No matter how beautiful or handsome you look, if you do not have a kind heart or have a bad temper, it worth nothing. When I was a child, I really like people who wear beautiful colors clothes. It was really awesome to attract people’s attention and easy to make people be like a star. One day, I was walking on the street with my mom and saw some people gather in a place. I was curious about that and walked to there. I saw a lady wearing a beautiful cloth was quarreling with an old man. She said a lot of dirty and bad words to that man just because the old guy hit the lady without purpose. The old man was homeless and looked so poor. The lady thought he hit her and made her cloth be dirty and wanted the old man to pay money for him. Obviously, the lady was unreasonable and no one like her. After that, I realized that no matter what you wear, it doesn’t matter. At the same time, I saw many famous and successful people wear very normal. They really don’t care about what they dress and they just focus on their career and undertaking. This situation really make me insist the ideas about dressing. However, people have to participate some party and wear good and appropriate clothes. It will be polite to do that. Hence,  adornment is not important but necessary.  We cannot judge people with their adornment. We need to look his inside things. Sometimes my girlfriend buy so many beautiful clothes and dress up for nearly 1 hour when she go out, I have to tell her truth that I love her not her clothes. I think the most important thing is people’s soul and quantity. It is more important than dressing good.  In past 10 years, I was never worried about what should I dress. I just made it easy and enjoy life. I just wear comfortable clothes. This thought never changed on me. I just insisted my opinion all the time.

My family’s value towards dress or body customization is almost same with me. However, they are my parents. They always tell me that buy whatever you want and don’t worry about money. My mom is very beautiful and kind. She never worries about her clothes. Even though she always tell me and give me money to buy beautiful clothes and shoes, I know she is afraid of that I could live well aboard. She always told me that people should not waste money on useless things and spend money on meaningful things. So does my father. He is a successful businessman in china. At the same time, he is also frugal. Even though he made a lot of money, he just bought Luxury goods for my mom and bought nothing for himself. Sometimes they do not say a word but we all know. For self, be a stingy person. For family members, be a rich man. This is my family’s core value and belief. Hence, I just carry out my ideas about easy dressing.

My peer community always dress good. Most of them are rich and like to buy beautiful clothes and shoes to adorn themselves. Boy’s core belief is that they want to dress handsome and attract girls’ attention. The same as girls, they also want to get attention from boys. Some people want to show their emotion. Sometimes they want to show their status. Different people have different ideas. We cannot judge people how they dress. Some people want to dress good for others. Some people dress well for themselves. At the same time, there are still some people like me. They are free for dressing and wear whatever they want.

No matter how surface you look like, it is still hard to judge people from only one way. It is possible to guess someone’s status and character from his dressing. People can guess and then they are given the first impression from people. Hence, how to dress and which is good for people to participate different kinds of public places. In the future, we have to find a job and get interview in company. In this time, dressing is important to give your boos good impression.

Reflection:

According the article from AAD course reading, I learnt a lot about how to judge people from the first impression. The chosen artifact helped me with giving me a lot of information from adornment. Even though we cannot judge people from surface, we can still know something through their dressing. It also taught how to distinguish people from dressing with listing a lot of example. The article showed some definition about dressing and asked us to use different ways to judge people from dressing.

Some adornment from people could be beautiful and show people’s tradition. Some people just show their interest. The artifact can help us to know different dressing. It can help us to not be shocked by strange dressing people.

Future:

Even though dressing is important to people, I still insist my belief about dressing. Just take it easy for doing anything. At the same time, I will do my best to dress when I get interview. And never discriminate people who dressing weird.