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Question: The objective of this discussion is to get you thinking creatively about how clothes create messages and meaning.
Most of you are probably familiar with the children's story "Little Red Riding Hood."
In order to develop an understanding of the ways clothes can communicate messages, this creative discussion allows you to use your imagination to develop a costume for the main character of the little girl in the story. We know the story as describing the girl as wearing a "little red riding hood" made by her grandmother for her. If you were a costume designer, able to costume the girl in any way you wished to convey any message you wished, how would you outfit her? You can use any colors, fabrics, styles, or accessories you wish!
Here's the catch for the outfit however: You need to specify what time period (or time periods!) the outfit refers to and you must explain your choices and what you are trying to convey with your choices for the little girls outfit. In other words, your choices will convey messages that may change the characterization of the girl, the moral of the story and the message conveyed by the story and, you must provide an explanation of what messages the outfit conveys and how it communicates them. Please be historically accurate in the details you choose and your explanation of them.
You may refer to the Interactive Timeline: Fashion in U.S. History, located in the Timelines section of the course, to help you consider fashion trends and their relationships to historical events.
Note: Because there is no right or wrong answer in this project, the ongoing discussion is important, and the ways in which you explain how messages are conveyed by the clothing is important. It isn't important whether you choose X color or Y color, or A style or B style. What is important is WHY you made that decision. How will these decisions help convey the message you are trying to convey?