Curated OER
Fads and Classics
Students discuss the types of clothes they have worn and why they have gone out of style. After watching a PowerPoint presentation, they identify clothes that never go out of style and compare them to the fads. To end the instructional...
Curated OER
You Can't Always Get What You Want!
Young scholars examine the concepts of supply and demand. They watch a video, research and identify the effect of fads, and complete the worksheet, Fads of the Last 100 Years.
Curated OER
Fashion Terms
Young scholars listen to a lecture on fashion terms and define these words. They identify examples of terms in fashion magazines and take a quiz.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nose Ring
Video shows tribal people removing their nose ring and prompts students to think about fads and how they know where the line is between fads that are fun and those that are dangerous.
Other
Powerhouse Museum: Electronic Swatchbook of Fashionable Fabrics, 1830 1920
Powerhouse Museum has collected swatchbooks containing swatches of fabric from the early 1800s through 1923. Click through the swatches to see how fabrics changed over the years.