Reflect on your own fashion choices and the garments and accessories in your wardrobe. Write a 300-500 word personal essay that addresses two of your own items and that analyzes them through the lens of at least two of the course themes (Heroes, Silhouettes, Coutures, Lifecycle, Modesty, Expression). Describe how your knowledge or understanding of these garments has deepened or shifted through the course, with respect to at least one of the following: the garments’ origins and development over time, how they are made, and their expressive potential and meanings. Demonstrate knowledge of the garment’s relationship to at least one larger issue, such as labor, sustainability, consumption, or identity. Please submit your essay in English.

Meet my family. There are five of us – my parents, my elder brother, my baby sister and me. First, meet my mum and dad, Jane and Michael. My mum enjoys reading and my dad enjoys playing chess with my brother Ken. My mum is slim and rather tall. She has long red hair and big brown eyes. She has a very pleasant smile and a soft voice. My mother is very kind and understanding. We are real friends. She is a housewife. As she has three children, she is always busy around the house. She takes care of my baby sister Meg, who is only three months old.

Every crisis has its heroes, every disaster its displays of selflessness and sacrifice. Firefighters race into burning buildings. Police officers place themselves in the line of fire. Soldiers march into war.

And now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, our health-care workers, doctors, nurses, EMTs and support staff who risk becoming infected themselves — who risk infecting their own families — are making extraordinary sacrifices to care for the rest of us. They do so, most infuriatingly, even as they have been put at greater risk than necessary by the avoidable shortages of masks, face shields and other personal protective equipment.