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4 Styles of 1940's Shoes for Women
Only two decades before the 1940's shoes started to be made in factories- thus lowering the prices, improving quality,chaussure de foot pas cher, and making "fashion" easier to follow. However when the second world war started in the early 1940's shoes became very difficult and expensive to buy. What resulted were shoes that have become "classic" in style. Simple. Sturdy. Affordable.

1. Mary Jane. Low heeled black or brown Mary Jane style shoes were in everyone woman's closet. This style with a single strap across the foot and chunky heel had been common for several decades. It was a solid desgn,polo ralph lauren pas cher, comfortable,chaussure de foot, and easy to make. What sets a 1940's Mary Jane shoes apart from other decades was the material. Leather was in short supply during the war so shoes were made of any available fabric,jordan pas cher, mesh or reptile skin,air jordan pas cher!

2. Oxfords. Oxford shoes for women with the two toned black and white or brown and white design are a symbol of the 1950's. However they actually were equally popular in the 1940's among the younger girls and ladies. Heels were usually low and somewhat "manly" looking. Worn with a cute pair of white socks these shoes were ideal for everyday casual wear. Later in the 40's the heels grew taller and the shape turned classier as older women were adopting the style.

4.  Peep Toe. By the late 1940's all conservatism from the war was gone. Shoe heels grew taller,Getting The Right Equipment For Your First Ride,ray ban, leather became the primary material,7 Ways To Improve Your Marketing Efforts,polo ralph lauren, and toes began to "peep" through. The peep toe style shoe is by far the most popular 1940's shoe today. Perhaps because they were first associated with "naughty" pin up girls. The term "pumps" was also becoming common place as a way to describe 3 inch heel shoes with no strap and either a closed toe or peep toe.

3. Wedgies or just Wedge. Wedgies were one way women could add extra height without wearing a "heeled" shoe. The shoe soles were made of cork and they arched up to give lift to the heel without creating a gap in the sole. They continue to be popular in fashion today,Green printing tips and advice,air jordan femme, especially in the summer months.

Cultural Cages Do you see yours
Most of my readers are living in the very real, the very concrete and palpable context of cultural tension and cultural misunderstanding. This isn't difficult to predict,air jordan pas cher! If people from the same cultures experience interpersonal conflict as a rather expected routine, imagine how much MORE common it is in multicultural contexts,A Look at the Types of Pedicure Stations Available! Here's the deal: we naturally move AWAY from that tension. Yep. That's what humans do: we avoid the hassle and the discomfort that comes from working through cross-cultural obstacles. So what happens? What happens is separation, stereotyping and ostracism. People that are comfortable with their cage are happy to hang with people who live in similar cages. We all see things the same way! We all "know" what's good, what's bad and what's ugly. But those "other people" have such a DIFFERENT way of seeing things. We all look out through the bars of our cages at each other, pointing our fingers at each other, saying in unison, "You're weird!".

Now, let's talk about CULTURAL CAGES. Cages keep things in, and keep things out. Our ‘cultural cage' is what limits our perception. It locks us into a very narrow range of possibilities. For example,jordan pas cher, "Dangerous Driving" is something that most can talk about, but country-to-country people will not agree on what it looks like. An Indian will feel very differently from an American about what "dangerous driving" looks like. The "cage" that's built by culture has, over time, become pretty strong! Both the Indian and the American have heard,Make Sure Your Horse Doesn’T Suffer In The Cold, since infancy, references to "that crazy driver!". But what their mom or dad or friend is referring to when making such a pronouncement is very different. When the Indian and American stand side by side in the middle of traffic, trying to cross the street, they will NOT agree about whether or not there are "crazy drivers" or "dangerous driving" all around them. They're inside their respective cages, and can't seem to get out. They see it "one way", and can't seem to see it another!

People have asked me about this thing that I call "cultural cages", so I wanted to see if I could develop a clear description here, and apply it to ourselves and to those around us in cross cultural contexts.

First: What is culture? Well…culture happens all around us; but more importantly to this discussion,casque beats, culture happens IN us! Culture, as most of my readers know, eludes simple definitions. The key components of what we call culture would include: shared beliefs; shared values; learned responses; patterns of behavior; all passed on through a socialization process. For the anthropologically and technically oriented,chaussure de foot pas cher, these descriptors do an adequate job of painting the picture. HOWEVER,Horse Tips How To Tack A Horse, I find that all of us benefit from talking about culture in much more earthy, concrete terms. So let's just add these common-man's key components of culture: it's the way you feel about things,lunette de soleil pas cher, the way you decide that one thing is more important than another. It's actually behind your reaction to movies and to what you call "good music". Culture even pushes you to feel repulsed by some ‘foods' and to feel very strongly attracted to others. (My Faroese friend loves the "aged" meat from the head of a sheep, but nearly vomits at the thought of peanut  butter). Culture is what makes you feel like some people are "weird" and other people are "normal". It's culture that causes you to recognize that you're not "at home" when you're in a different country (or a different PART of the country, or city). Like I said, culture happens ALL AROUND US; but it's important to recognize that culture happens in us.

What do you think about YOUR cultural cage? Can you see it? Can you see the "cages" of others? Which category are you in: Mono-cultural or Multi-cultural? Which category would you LIKE to be in? Please leave a comment, and share your perspective with us,air jordan femme!

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When thinking about ourselves as cultural beings, it's fair (I think) to lump ourselves into two basic categories: (1) Mono-cultural and (2) Multi-cultural. The mono-cultural person, unfortunately, lives out their life without ever really taking a deep look at the cultural influences that shaped them, and consequently rarely knows how to understand, respect or appreciate OTHER cultural ‘shapes'. They're just sort of ‘stuck in their cultural cage'. But the Multi-cultural person (which, by the way, can even be achieved by people living in their own home culture) takes a posture of inquisitive exploration, desiring to "get inside" of why other people "live life differently". This multi-cultural person believes that they'll discover good reasons why people are different. They know that they'll be able to disagree too, but that they'll disagree from a position of understanding, rather than from a default position of ignorance. The multi-cultural person is attracted to the idea of crossing from "outsider" status,casque dr dre, to "insider" status, and by the intrigue of developing friendships with people that are,franklin marshall pas cher, at first "different", but soon to become "understood". The multi-cultural person actually starts SEEING their own "cage", recognizing that they've been shaped by a particular community. They're "o.k." with that; they even love that. But they do recognize that it's only "one shape among many". They sometimes move on toward beginning to see inside of other people's cages, trying to understand the values, beliefs and priorities that form THAT particular view. This is what makes them ‘multi-cultural people'.

Let me point out one really interesting feature of culture! Your culture is nearly invisible to yourself. Culture is like water for a fish: they don't notice it! They only notice if they're OUT of it! It's like the lenses in a good pair of glasses: you don't see them, you only see THROUGH them. Those lenses affect every single thing that you see, but you're rarely even aware that the lenses are shaping (and changing the shape) of the images coming to your eyes. Culture does the same thing: it shapes what we see, how we feel, what we like, what we dread, but the thing itself – culture – is practically invisible to us.

"Most of us are locked up pretty tightly inside our "cultural cages", and it's the rare person that even BEGINS to see this about himself."- a short quote from my "About" page.