The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie: Analysis
Essay 2
In a magical way clothe talks, and it is one of a kind of language, we can observe a person’s personality and favor by the clothes that they wear and the adornment they have. In “The Language of Clothes” by Alison Lurie, clothes and adornment are a kind of language, and it has magical propose in many ancient cultures. Different culture has different harbors “magical” clothing and adornments. According to Lurie in “The Language of Clothes”, she describes clothing and adornment that has magical propose in the past as spoken charm and luck.
As archaeologists digging up past civilizations and anthropologist studying primitive tribes have come to the conclusion that people believed in that paint clothing can attract good animistic and ward off evil. “Paint, ornament, and rudimentary clothing were first employed to attract good animistic powder and to ward off evil.” (Lurie 251). This point out that in ancient culture clothes and ornament were used as a symbol to serve magical propose. For instance, in ancient Taiwanese culture, people used to dress feather skirt and put feather on their head to show that they are blessed by the mountain goddess. My father told me that my great-great-grandfather used to wear feather skirt every time he went out hunting; he said the mountain goddess will bless him if he wears that feather skirt and feather on his head. As Lurie wrote “A necklace of shark’s teeth or a girdle of cowrie shells or feathers serves the same purpose as a prayer or spell, and may magically replace – or more often supplement- as spoken charm.” (Lurie 252). Adornments and special clothing serve as spoken charm and sometime even replace spell if people has faith in those armaments.
Special “magical” clothing was dressed in many different cultures, for example, the ancient Taiwanese culture. One kind of clothing originating from ancient Taiwan is a type of headdress which was worn from c. 475-221 B.C.E. These headdresses were very similar to my
In a magical way clothe talks, and it is one of a kind of language, we can observe a person’s personality and favor by the clothes that they wear and the adornment they have. In “The Language of Clothes” by Alison Lurie, clothes and adornment are a kind of language, and it has magical propose in many ancient cultures. Different culture has different harbors “magical” clothing and adornments. According to Lurie in “The Language of Clothes”, she describes clothing and adornment that has magical propose in the past as spoken charm and luck.
As archaeologists digging up past civilizations and anthropologist studying primitive tribes have come to the conclusion that people believed in that paint clothing can attract good animistic and ward off evil. “Paint, ornament, and rudimentary clothing were first employed to attract good animistic powder and to ward off evil.” (Lurie 251). This point out that in ancient culture clothes and ornament were used as a symbol to serve magical propose. For instance, in ancient Taiwanese culture, people used to dress feather skirt and put feather on their head to show that they are blessed by the mountain goddess. My father told me that my great-great-grandfather used to wear feather skirt every time he went out hunting; he said the mountain goddess will bless him if he wears that feather skirt and feather on his head. As Lurie wrote “A necklace of shark’s teeth or a girdle of cowrie shells or feathers serves the same purpose as a prayer or spell, and may magically replace – or more often supplement- as spoken charm.” (Lurie 252). Adornments and special clothing serve as spoken charm and sometime even replace spell if people has faith in those armaments.
Special “magical” clothing was dressed in many different cultures, for example, the ancient Taiwanese culture. One kind of clothing originating from ancient Taiwan is a type of headdress which was worn from c. 475-221 B.C.E. These headdresses were very similar to my