![]() A good underwear tuck can make or break your outfit, so don't be afraid to give it try!) You can also properly tuck your undershirt into your underwear to stop any bunching. (If you are wearing an undershirt, make sure that you fold it into a sharp diagonal crease so that the two layers don't bunch up together. Tucking in your shirt is a skill that comes with practice, and it can be hard to tell when you're doing it right.īut here's the thing: you don't have to only tuck your shirt in when you're wearing an undershirt, fitted shirt, or another layer of clothing underneath. Happiness and confidence are more flattering than any fashion rule-following garment. ![]() What stands out is its color, cool details, and silhouettes, its fun prints, and more than that… its smile. What stands out? Is it how trim they look in that black dress versus the green one? Is it how proportional their body looks with that top that hits exactly at the perfect place on their hip? Is it how their shoulders look much more narrow in that photo wearing bootcut jeans than in the one where they resemble a linebacker in the same top styled with skinny jeans? I am betting it's none of that. Heck, even use Google Images to search a public figure and a single year (so it’s a similar size and age) and scroll through images of that person. Take a stroll through your Facebook timeline or flip through a family album. Some style rules can distract or emphasize, but no wrap dress or even pair of Spanx will give you a different body. And like eyebrow trends, we often look back at photos of our past selves with regret. It’s harder to keep up with than eyebrow trends. One decade it’s hips and breasts, another decade it’s just the rear, another decade, and not a single curve is acceptable. These rules are geared towards making our bodies appear slimmer and longer with curves only in the places deemed by society to be acceptable and those acceptable locations keep shifting. Since childhood, these style rules have been ingrained in us. Styling a Stomach: To Tuck or Not to Tuck? Untucked tops will balance a short torso and will also hide a round belly. Bootcut pants will balance big shoulders and make you look more proportional. Wear dark colors and you’ll look slimmer. These two secondary sources helped me realize that Kindred is an extremely personal and realistic book which successfully portrays the hardships and obstacles of the slaves.Women have been lied to all their lives. Butler accurately displays how slaves are poor and treated like objects. The economic superiority of Whites is also seen in the article when Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, “Black families, regardless of income, are significantly less wealthy than white families” (The Case for Reparations). The sense of ownership and power belittled slaves and portrayed them as property, not people. Then you’d live here instead of traveling around the country without enough to eat or a place to sleep'” (pg 91). ![]() Owning slaves signified that a family was rich, which is seen in Kindred when Tom Weylin said, “‘I could buy you. The author effectively reaches her readers by portraying the real lives of slaves.Īnother aspect of slavery was the difference of wealth between Whites and their slaves. I enjoy that Butler maintains a sense of reality because it takes readers back to the 1800s which she supports when she says, “Not so much to make a person understand, but confront a modern person with that reality of history” (Octavia Butler interview). She stated that a slave who lived in Mississippi was bound to remain there however, by living in Maryland Dana had a good chance of escaping to freedom. I also realized that Butler wanted to make this book as realistic as possible because of the setting-she puts the characters in Maryland and not Mississippi. And I could see old marks, ugly scars of at least one much worse beating” ( Kindred, pg 26). Unfortunately, a large part of slavery was punishment which Butler accurately portrayed the pain when she writes, “He turned and pulled up his shirt so that I could see the crisscross of long red welts. In the interview with author Octavia Butler, Butler stated that her goal was to make the reader experience slavery in a genuine manner. The two secondary sources provide excellent historical context of the storyline in Kindred.
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