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  2. Brazilian fashion - Wikipedia

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    Characters in iconic telenovelas like Dancing Days in the 1970s disseminated the disco style in Brazil; O Clone inspired numerous fashion trends with its Islamic inspired theme. [ 2 ] In the 2000s the influence of digital influencers and celebrities on fashion consumption in Brazil has become increasingly pronounced, leveraging their social ...

  3. Social issues in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil is participating of the One Laptop Per Child project, [37] aiming at providing low cost laptops to poor children in developing countries, but the program is moving slowly. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [38] finds that Brazil is doing 86.8% of what should be possible at its level of income for the right to education. [39]

  4. Hemline - Wikipedia

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    Prom dresses, with hemlines varying from above-the-ankle (tea length) to floor length. The hemline is the line formed by the lower edge of a garment, such as a skirt, dress or coat, measured from the floor. [1] The hemline is perhaps the most variable style line in fashion, changing shape and ranging in height from hip-high to floor-length ...

  5. “You Just Get So Tired”: 30 People Share What Being Poor Is Like

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    Being poor means constantly worrying about basic needs and future stability. #19 Seeing your mother wear 20+ year old worn out clothing and what amount to rags she collected from hospital visits ...

  6. How Women’s Sports Uniforms Became So Controversial, Long ...

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    The truth is, many factors play into what women wear during competition: fashion, politics, money, power, and yes, the patriarchy too. Sport, after all, is a microcosm of our still-sexist society.

  7. Miniskirt - Wikipedia

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    A miniskirt (sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, separated as mini skirt, or sometimes shortened to simply mini) is a skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level, normally no longer than 10 cm (4 in) below the buttocks; [1] and a dress with such a hemline is called a minidress or a miniskirt dress.

  8. Brazil's official term for poor communities has conveyed ...

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    After decades of delay and pressure, Brazil announced Tuesday that it will henceforth use “favelas and urban communities” to categorize thousands of poor, urban neighborhoods, instead of the ...

  9. Cultural views on the midriff and navel - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. [3] The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured ...