Introduction Fashion is a style of dressing It includes clothes It includes shoes It includes hair It includes jewelry It includes nails People make fashion choices They decide how they want to look Some people set trends Some follow trends Trends are fads They’re what is popular at the time Fashion changes over time It’s different across cultures It can be simple It can be fancy It can be crazy There’s strange fashion And then there’s really strange fashion Some people make super strange fashion choices They’re so strange that they’re hard to believe They sound like fiction But these stories are all true
Fashion shows are popular They let designers show off their clothes
chapter one Hammer Pants Hammer pants were named for M C Hammer Hammer was a rapper He was famous in the 1980s and 1990s He wore these pants in shows He danced in them He sang in them He liked loose pants He could do crazy dance moves He said You move And then the pants move So it brings a nice little flair Flair means style Hammer pants are baggy They billow at the top Billow means to expand They sag in the middle They taper at the ankle Taper means to narrow Hammer pants are colorful They’re shiny They’re flashy 6
Hammer pants are inspired by pants worn in Iran India and Turkey 7