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NEW ISSUE!

Issue 31 - Fashion: The Power, The Peril and The Passion

Fashion is a topic that can be both fun and serious. In this thought provoking, visually appealing issue of The Change Agent, we examine: how our clothes make us feel, bathing suits through the ages, extreme body art, how to make fashion small talk in the ESOL classroom, rules for shopping, fashion and female body image, dressing for success, clothing and stereotypes, the hidden cost of cheap clothes, how to have fun with fashion without breaking the budget, who makes our clothes and where, the problem with fur, how parents and kids work out their fashion conflicts, and much more!

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Part 1 - How Our Clothes Make Us Feel

- What Do Women Want?

- What My Clothing Makes Me Feel

- Having a Positive Attitude

- Our Swim Suits, Ourselves

- Cool and Comfortable? Or Covered Up?

- Body Art = Beauty

- Clothes Are Like Birds

- Piercings and Tattoos

- Fashion Small Talk for Low-Level ESOL Classrooms

- To Give Away or Not

- Media and Female Body Image

Part 2 - First Impressions, Labels, Stereotypes, and Rules About Clothes

- Dressing for Success

- Making Myself Marketable

- Hustling For Fashion

- Who's Who? How Do You Tell?

- Exploring Labels, Stereotypes, and First Impressions

- Clothes Tell You About a Person

- He Thought I Was an African Princess

- Uniforms? Dress Codes? Or Free Choice?

- French Lawmakers Ban Women from Wearing Veils in Public

- Exploring the Idea of Freedom and Clothing

Part 3 - The Clothing Industry, Hidden Cost of Cheap, and Ecological Issues

- Which Sweatshirt Would You Buy?

- Exploring the Hidden Cost of Cheap

- The Hidden Costs of Cheap Clothes

- High Style, Low Impact

- Bangladeshi Garment Workers - Some Numbers to Consider

- Calculating a Living Wage for Bangladeshi Garment Workers

- Sweatshops in the United States?

- Timeless Fashion: Made In America

- Why I Believe that Wearing Fur is Cruel

Part 4 - Across Generations and Fashion Writer for a Day

- All My World Inside One Bag

- My Daughter, the Fashion Police

- My Son's Shoes

- Parents, Kids, and Fashion: "We Will Survive!"

- Clothing Is Just the Material on Your Back

- Thanks to My Father

- My Daughter's Clothes

- Inappropriate Pants!

- How I Used to Dress

- My 15th Birthday

- For a Daughter Who Leaves

- Be a Fashion Writer for a Day

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