Проектная работа 9 класса по теме "Clothing as self-expression".
проект по английскому языку (9 класс) по теме

A project work

“Clothing as self-expression”

1. Introduction

Student 1: "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." So said Mark Twain, and that saying still rings true, as our society has developed into one that uses apparel as a way to convey one's social status.

Simply flip through the pages of a woman's fashion magazine to read breathless coverage of the fashion statements being made on the couture runways of Paris, Milan, and New York.

Listen to a gaggle of high school girls decrying the must-have fashion accessory of last season as "so last year."

Even men are not immune to the whims of the fashionistas - particularly those fashion moguls who were once (or still are) hip-hop moguls.

If both men and women use apparel to convey social status, they also use it as a means of self-expression.

The fictitious fashion editor in "The Devil Wears Prada" always accessorized with a white Hermes scarf (слайд 2). 

Donald Trump is known for his colorful neckties (слайд 3). 

And Woody Harrelson is known for wearing hemp. (слайд 4) 

Beginning in the 1960s, T-shirts became a means of self-expression.

Back then, plain white T-shirts transformed into tie-dye works of art proclaiming the rise of "flower power" and urging, "Make love, not war."

Soon, messages began appearing on T-shirts using silk screening or screen-printing.

Bands began selling branded T-shirts to their fans at concerts, and young people began wearing band T-shirts as a symbol of their personal identities.

The T-shirt has become a means of marketing a product or brand.

2. What is a T-shirt? When and where did it appear and who created this wonderful part of clothes?

• Some facts from the history

A T-Shirt or tee is a style of a shirt. A T-Shirt's defining characteristic is the T shape made with the body and sleeves. (cлайд 5) It is normally associated with short sleeves, a round neckline, and no collar.

T-Shirts, made of a light, inexpensive fabric, were easy to clean. The earliest T-shirt dates back to sometime between the Spanish-American War and the year 1913, when the U.S. Navy began issuing them as undergarments. (слайд 6)

They became even more popular in the 1950s after Marlon Brando wore one in A Streetcar Named Desire, finally achieving status as fashionable, stand-alone, outer-wear garments (слайд 7)

In the 1960s the T-shirt became a means for self-expression as well as to convey commercial advertisements, protests, and souvenir messages. Over time the T-shirt has been adapted to the modern world. Many different designs and fabrics along with styles of T-shirts have been created since the beginning of it all.

• Types of T-shirts

There are a lot of variants of T-shirts:

• A crew neck is a type of shirt or sweater that has a round neckline and no collar (слайд 8)
• A sleeveless shirt - «A-shirt" is short for "athletic shirt" because it is often worn in sports, such as basketball and track-and-field events. In the United States, it is also known colloquially as a tank top (слайд 9)
• scoop neck, and V-neck (слайды 10)
• Hip hop fashion calls for "tall-T" T-shirts which may extend down to the knees

And many others.

We’ve come up to the most important part of our report - decorations and phrases

•  Decorations

Student2: In the early 1950s, several companies based in Miami, Florida, started to decorate T-shirts with different   resort names and various characters.

The first company was Tropix Togs, under founder Sam Kantor, in Miami.

They were the original licensee for Walt Disney characters including Mickey Mouse and Davy Crockett. (Слайд 11)

Later, other companies expanded into the T-shirt printing business

In the 1960s, the ringer T-shirt appeared (A ringer T-shirt is a T-shirt in which fabric is one color, but the ribbing used for the collar and the sleeve bands are of a contrasting color). (Слайд 12)

It became a staple fashion for youth and rock-n-rollers.

The decade also saw the emergence of tie-dyeing and screen-printing on the basic T-shirt and the T-shirt became a medium for wearable art, commercial advertising, souvenir messages and protest art messages.

T-shirts often feature emblems and motifs associated with the Grateful Dead and marijuana culture. Additionally, one of the most popular symbols to emerge from the political turmoil of 1960s was T-shirts bearing the face of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. (Слайд 13)

Today, many notable and memorable T-shirts produced in the 1970s are very popular.

Examples include the bright yellow happy face T-shirts (слайд 14),

The Rolling Stones tops with their "tongue and lips" logo (слайд 15), 

and Milton Glaser's iconic "I ♥ N Y” design. (Слайд 16) 

In the mid-1980s, the white T-shirt became fashionable after the actor Don Johnson wore it with an Armani suit in Miami Vice. (Слайд 17)

There are a lot of methods of decorating shirts: screen printing, tie dye

Tie dye originated in India, Japan and Africa as early as the sixth century and in the 1960s the style of tie dye was introduced to America during the hippie movement, a time when the Vietnam War was being heavily protested. (слайд 18)

Screen printed T-shirts have been a standard form of marketing for major consumer products, such as Coca-Cola (слайд 19) and Mickey Mouse, since the 1970s.

However, since the 1990s, it has become common practice for companies of all sizes to produce T-shirts with their corporate logos or messages as part of their overall advertising campaigns.

Let’s see some examples

Показ слайдов (слайды 20-24)

• The reasons of wearing decorated T-shirts

• People wear T-shirts to express their beliefs, philosophies, and senses of humor.(слайды)
• Graphic tees are standard issue for college kids, those who want to speak their minds, and those who consider themselves outcasts.
• T-shirts with prominent designer-name logos have become popular, especially with teenagers and young adults. These garments allow consumers to flaunt their taste for designer brands in an inexpensive way, in addition to being decorative.

Examples of designer T-shirt branding include Calvin Klein, FUBU, Ralph Lauren, American Apparel and The Gap. (слайд)

• Licensed T-shirts are also extremely popular.

Movie and TV T-shirts can have images of the actors, logos, and funny quotes from the movie or TV show.

Often, the most popular T-shirts are those that characters wore in the film itself (слайд).

• A popular phrase on the front of T-shirts demonstrating T-shirts' popularity among tourists is the humorous phrase "I did _____ and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
• Examples include "My parents went to Las Vegas and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
• Artists like Bill Beckley (an American narrative/conceptual artist), Glen Baldridge and Peter Klashorst (a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer) use T-shirts for their artistic expression.(cлайд)

3. T-shirts in Russia

Student 3: In our country, decorated T-shirts are also very popular especially among students and young men.

Most of them are not branded items at all.

Moreover, some of them fall into the category of rude shirts.

The phrases are written with awful mistakes deliberately because they are fakes, the others occasionally, because they are made by people without knowledge of English.

That gave us an idea to find out why people buy them.

Do they pay any attention to the inscriptions and can they translate anything on their clothes.

The purpose of our work is - to establish the dependence of semantic load labels on the clothes on the level of English proficiency.

To achieve this goal it was necessary to solve several problems:

• To pick up a certain number of labels on the students’ clothes
• Translate into Russian sense of inscriptions.
• Identify age, the main reasons for buying these things.
• To summarize    the data and come to a definite conclusion

During our research work, we used two methods: search and analytical.

We consider our work useful and interesting because it allows students to pay attention to the translation of text and correctly use the information, which should reflect the real interests of its owner.

4. Research work

Student 1: We interviewed 100 respondents and divided them into 5 groups:

The first group – girls from 13 to 15 years old

The second group – boys from 13 to 15 years old

The third one – girls from 15 to 18 years old

The forth group – boys from 15 to 18 years old

And the last one– adults: teachers and our parents.

Questions we asked:

1. Do you wear t-shirts?
2. What decorations do you prefer?
3. What do you pay attention to while buying a t-shirt?
4. Do you know the meaning of a phrase written on your t-shirt?

Student 2: These are our results:

Let’s start from the last group – adults.

Men

• 1 All of them wear T-shirts
• 2 Most of them prefer T-shirts without any decorations or with brand labels especially sports ones.  

            They can buy T-shirts with funny prints at the resort

• 3 men pay attention to quality, price and color
• 4 They can’t translate messages, that’s why try to avoid them (and that is a pleasant moment)

Women

• 1 All women wear different variants of T-shirts:

Camisole (cлайд) 

A camisole is a sleeveless shirt for women, normally extending to the waist. They often have spaghetti straps.

Halter top (слайд)

A halter top is a sleeveless shirt in which a strap goes around the back of the neck, leaving the upper back uncovered.

• 2 Women prefer floral prints, different messages, no decorations and they also buy T-shirts with funny drawings for memory of those countries which they have visited.
• 3 Most of them pay  attention to color
• 4 Most of women know the translation and they pay more attention to the phrases. But there are also women who look only at bright pictures without thinking about translation and mistakes.

1 group - girls

• 1Girls wear T-shirts
• 2 They prefer bright pictures, pictures of famous people, brand labels, inscriptions
• 3 pay attention to bright colors and funny pictures
• 4 Some girls can translate phrases according to their knowledge , but most of them can’t understand the meaning and don’t pay any attention to it and  mistakes  

Student 3:

The second group - boys

• 1 wear T-shirts,
• 2 prefer funny pictures, bright colors, something in English.
• 3 pay attention to the same things
•  4 They confessed that if they looked carefully they would be able to translate, but sometimes it is difficult because of illegible printing type and in most cases they don’t want to do it.

The third and the fourth groups 

• 1 - All of them wear different types of T-shirts very often; consider them very comfortable and cool.
• 2 – prefer pictures and phrases with a sense of humor, philosophical messages but only in English, a few prefer brand items.
• 3 – color, quality, the price
• 4 – small percentage of respondents pay attention to the meaning of the phrase
• Most of them don’t care what is written on a tee.        

5. The conclusion.

Russian people like wearing different types of T-shirts.

Unlike foreign contemporaries Russian students wear T-shirts because of the comfort.

For most of them it’s not a means of self-expression.

 All students prefer messages ONLY in English.

They refuse to buy tees with inscriptions in their native language - Russian.

They believe that they will look silly and unfashionable.

Despite their desire to wear a T-shirt with slogans in English they don’t even try to understand the meaning of the phrases and awful mistakes.

Moreover, they are not afraid to look even sillier in T-shirts with stupid, rude slogans addressing to them. It’s true that Russian soul is very mysterious.

We urge to be more attentive and carefully choose this or that item of clothing especially with foreign phrases.

Don’t be afraid of wearing T-shirts with Russian messages they are funny.

Do you remember that the purpose of our work is - to establish the dependence of semantic load labels on the clothes on the level of English proficiency?

In most cases there is no any dependence.

But we know the theme of our next work: “What has caused reluctance to wear clothing with Russian inscriptions?”

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