Today Is Just Another Day

Today is a day like any other. I woke up, went to work, and now will be going to the gym. Like the song says I breathe in and breathe out. I have realized that I am not as over Andrea as I thought I was. I knew I missed her a lot, but I thought that I was at least getting over our breakup... But, alas, this is not the case. I have spent the last week or so with her in my thoughts at every moment. I am not sure what exactly I should do. I want to talk to her, but I know she doesn't want to hear from me. I want to show my feelings in a romantic gesture, but I don't know how it will come off. Not talking to me for months then having me do something like that out of the blue clear sky. Maybe she would appreciate it, or maybe she is over me and it will only push us farther from what once was. I am terribly confused, but I know that at some point we will be back in each others lives. Even if it is just as friends, she is too amazing of a person for me to let go of completely. I do hope that she is happy and is experiencing all the things she wants and needs to. I just wonder if she is ever reminded of me, and I wonder what she thinks of when she thinks of me...

The zoot suit and style warfare

Kristin Darden JJ Price Jennifer Valadez Stephanie Cude Advertising Criticism August 3, 2009 Cosgrove, “ The Zoot- Suit and Style Welfare” Description Topic: This article examines what a zoot-suit represented in the 1930’s 1940’s . A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit) is a suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. This style of clothing was popularized by African Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Italian Americans, and Filipino Americans during the late 1930s and 1940s. Cosgrove believed that a zoot- suit was more than the drape-shape of 1940’s fashion, more than a colorful stage-prop hanging from the shoulders of Cab Calloway, it was, in the most direct and obvious ways, an emblem of ethnicity and a way of negotiating an identify. Zoot suits were occasionally worn for parties or special occasions. During the summer months of 1943, Los Angeles riots between American servicemen stationed in southern California and Los Angeles' Mexican-American community began to break out. Reports claimed that that the zoot-suit was an invention of Harlem night life. The zoot suite riots divided into two groups of predominantly African American, Mexican American and white American groups stationed along the Pacific Coast. The Zoot -suit riots got very violent and out of hand. Sixty zoot suit rioters were arrested after they were charged with violent acts and public fights. The zoot suit riots were growing so intensively worse that even females begin to join. They carried large quantities of drugs such as marijuana because they were less likely to be searched by male members of law enforcement. The women were called the black widows and slick chicks. They wore black drape jackets, tight skirts, fish net stockings and heavy make up. The riots finally started to settle down during the end of the second week in June. The morning of June 1943, the Los Angeles times broke out with the front page of their paper with: “Time for Sanity“. Finally, in July the los angels city council made it illegal and a jail offense if anyone was caught wearing a zoot-zuit within the city limits. The zoot suit costume was never to be mistaken for violence but rather a meaning of social , political and Harlem night life. Summary Key Points: In this article Cosgrove examines a deeper look into these suits. In the beginning Zoot-suits were made and worn to represent harlem night life but instead turned into riots and violence. The amount of material and tailoring required made them luxury items. The overbearing amount of material represented freedom and rebelliousness. This article examines the liberty and disorder these suits made during the 1930’s and 1940’s. People were killed and arrested because these suits had such an impact on what people thought about these suits. 1. Do you feel that in terms of media coverage the trend has changed in how the media reports on crimes concerning minorities or is it the same as with the zoot-suiters? 2. The zoot-suit was not advertised in a traditional way like through ads in a magazine, how do you think it was advertised and what attributed to it becoming so popular among ethnic youth? 3. Do you feel that there are any brands or style of clothing that people associate with ethnicity today?