Unfortunately, we were not able to accomplish everything that we wanted to accomplish in time for the draft submission. Our site is very unfinished right now. Most pages only contain a slideshow or timeline and no words to add context to those elements. The only page with context is the national page under the androgynous tab. I started working on that late last night after doing a lot of reading on androgynous fashion history. It seems that every fashion scholar and journalist has a different idea of exactly what makes fashion androgynous and where androgynous fashion stood in the ’80s.
As for the elements on each page we do have, they are only half done. The slideshows only contain the latter half of the ’80s. Corey is supposed to be finding pictures from the earlier half. I know he’s a busy guy so I have no clue if he just didn’t have time or forgot, but I’m confident it will get done by the final date. The same is true about out timelines. We wanted timelines to help identify the origins of some of these trends in the ’80s but pinpointing origins is harder than we thought. The best we can do is find the trends that celebrities wore in concert and on television that were later popularized.
So as you can see, we still have a lot of work to do to finish this site. Corey will (hopefully) soon add to the slideshows and timelines and write the context for a few of our pages and I will write the context for the remaining pages. Then we will both edit each others context for continuity. I’m also hoping to add a few header images at the beginning of each page just to add more color and break up the text so it is a little more appealing to the eye, making it easier to read. I think we will also get rid of the local page under the androgynous tab unless Corey is able to find examples of androgynous fashion in the early half of the ’80s yearbooks. And hopefully Corey will upload his interview with his American Studies professor soon. I know we discussed trimming the end of his interview to create a cleaner finish, but I’m not sure if he got around to doing so. Our work is definitely cut out for us.
You will get there it sounds like you have pout a decent amount of effort into your site.
Hi, Abigail. You sound a bit discouraged but don’t be. Building a website is a huge task. You all have a good start. I am glad you understand how far you have to go, though. A few things to think about: Don’t forget to cite your sources and include a Works Cited page;make sure you are clear in what the “thesis” of your website is (what exactly are you trying to support/prove); how do your images support, explain, critique this idea? Further analysis is needed. For example, yes, mustaches were popular. Are they the same kind of mustaches we see today? What is the difference? Who wore them? You also talk about the “regrettable mullets. Why were they regrettable? Who wore them? Why are they seen as negative?. Your website has a lot of potential! Just dig a little deeper. Dr. Brown