Ó ni63wz Great ideas Look at the 21st century job ideas. Go online and research what services these businesses offer. Write at least two sentences about each job. Example: These business people help their clients to achieve their desired looks. They choose personal style items such as clothing, shoes and matching accessories. A personal stylist determines the client’s body type and identifies specific tastes and activities so that the recommended style fits perfectly. personal stylist wedding planner food blogger social media manager influencer Reading 1 a Compare your sentences in class. Which type of business would you like to have or work in? Why? Why not? You’re going to read how women’s workwear has evolved. What do you think about dressing up for work? b 2 a Dress code or power styling? Workplaces have demanded that females look and dress a certain way for more than a century. Even if today many people say it’s never been easier to follow your individual dress code, in reality people will judge women’s appearance. In today’s global economy, different clothing styles (1) are easily available. Lynda Briggs, a school teacher in London, loves fashion. She wants (2) to address the issue of personal appearance with 16-year olds as she believes what you wear to work matters. “As a woman, don’t let yourself become invisible. I have just bought a bright red pair of shoes, for example” she says. Lynda has made it (3) her mission to encourage her students to wear colour or something that pushes the boundaries a bit. For example, even in factories in the 1950s, some women (4) came up with the idea to wear colourful blouses under their work aprons. It was a little thing that allowed them to express their individual personality. Since the early 1900s, which was the time that women started to be allowed to keep their own earnings in the UK, the amount of control that women have over their clothes has depended largely on their type of job. In domestic service women had very little control over what they wore. You had to wear whatever your employer thought suitable for the role. Factory workers, however, had a little more freedom, which (5) allowed them to wear colourful stockings or have an individual hairstyle with a coloured bandanna. During the First World War many women made military weapons in factories. They had very strict rules about what they could wear and could hardly (6) make a living from their low-paid jobs. Still, many workers showed individualism on a small scale, with something cheap, like lacing their boots with colourful ribbons. However, women working in popular jobs such as nurse or waitress had to wear uniforms. In one respect, uniforms have always simplified the choice of workwear, but they also come with a symbolic burden. 29 3 Unit describe qualities you need for different activities apply for a job take part in an interview Goals talk about business ideas talk about hopes, dreams and ambitions talk about abilities, success and achievements Success Nur zu Prüfzweck n – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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