Levi's
It's an autobiographical work of Marilyn Schiel. It is based
on her childhood memory. Levi is the blue jeans that she uses symbolically in
the text. It symbolizes her new freedom. The text reveals out the gender
inequalities that women experienced during 1950's in America.
Marilyn says that she had a ten years old brother. He was
given jeans to wear. But, she wasn't allowed to. She would wear cotton paints
and embroidered T-shirt in summer and trousers and pants in winter. She
actually wanted to wear jeans. Women usually would wear traditional dresses in
1950's. There was the difference in dressing between male and female. She
couldn't understand while she was very young. Mostly the woman worked at home. They were given household
works like, cooking, washing, cleaning, caring and raring children, etc.
The writer states that in 1953, her mother was involved in
business and she came to know that women didn't have to wear traditional
dresses. This changed her negative attitude to jeans into positive. She found
the modern equipment even for and technology, the writer's mother found that
function was important than fashion. The writer's changing attitude facilitated
the writer's dream of wearing jeans into practice. The writer thought that the
jeans would give her a new life.
One day, the writer's mother gave to try on an old Levi's of
her brother. She found them fit to her. Then, she got the freedom of wearing
clothes. It was the great happiness in her life. It was an important step to
bring equality in gender. She was also given a bike to ride like her brother.
The new trend on clothing has opened a new dawn to women's participation in the
main stream of social, political and modern life.
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