报刊选读(TheDeclineofNeatness)解析.ppt

13.The Decline of Neatness Background Time magazine The American Dress The Beverly Hills Hotel Forbidden fruit The only official editorial that Time has ever published was in 1974, calling for the resignation of Richard Nixon. Americans don’t have distinctive folk attire with a long tradition. American dress is distinctive because of its casualness. The idea of “casual Friday”. No item of clothing is more American than the blue jeans invented in 1873 by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss. These two visionary immigrants, turned denim, thread and a little metal into the most popular clothing product in the world. Waist overalls, was the traditional name for work pants, which is what these first jeans were called. The word jeans became more popular around 1960 when the baby-boom generation adopted the term for its favorite type of pants, blue jeans.. Cultural background: Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics Initially, blue jeans were simply sturdy trousers worn by workers, especially in the factories during World War II. During this period, mens jeans had the zipper down the front, whereas womens jeans had the zipper down the right side. By the 1960s, both mens and womens jeans had the zipper down the front. In the United States during the 1950s, wearing of blue jeans by teenagers and young adults became symbolic of mild protest against conformity. New words . crisply adv freshly spanking adv very, completely discard v. to throw sth out or away disheveled adj. (of hair or cloth) untidy phony adj.(指某人)假装的，冒充的 deprivation n. poverty desensitization n. less strong reaction to sth shun v. to keep away from devoid adj. completely lacking in something incentive n. stimulus, encouragement gory adj. bloody glamorization n. 美化 atrophy v. to become weak transfix v. to make sb unable to move mutilate v. 使丧失四肢，使伤残 saturate v. to fill sb./sth. completely with sth. unkempt adj. dirty messy Analysis of difficult sen