explain the meaning of these quotes from "Life Without Go-Go Boots." Your answer should be a minimum of 50 characters long. I suffered quietly casting an ever hopeful eye on my eight-grade cousin whose button-front shifits someday would be mine

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"I'm inclined to resist, if it happens. To press on her the larger truths I finally absorbed from my own wise parents: that she can find her own path. That she will be more valued for inward individuality than outward conformity." (p.58)

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How can one truly show their individuality? Do they need a fashion or style for this?

"Now, there is fashion, and there is style. The latter, I've found, will serve, and cost less. Style is mostly a matter of acting as if you know very well what you look like, thanks, and are just delighted about it. (p.57)

How would you define fashion and style? What do you think the differences are?

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“So when i took her to the park in cousin Ashley’s dresses, strangers commented on her blue eyes and lovely complexion; when she wore Andrew’s playsuits emblazoned with trucks and airplanes… ,people always commented on how strong and alert my child was-and what’s his name?” (p.58)

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In Barbara Kingsolver's essay, Life Without Go-Go Boots, she uncovers the truth that fashion will not always matter, but expressing our individuality and style will be better in the long run.

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Why do you think Kingsolver uses her experiences to push the idea of individuality and that it’s not important to follow high fashion?

"I learned what my mother had been trying to tell me all along: fashion has the shelf life of potato salad." (p.55)

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Have you ever followed a trend? Did you feel like you "fit in" with everyone else?

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"Artists (also mathematicians and geniuses) are greatly indulged by society when it comes to matters of grooming. If we happen to look like an unmade bed, it's presumed we're preoccupied with plot devices or unifying theories or things of that ilk. (p.56)

How do you think the efforts of fashion and trends affect the world? For example all the sweatshops that make our clothes or the bullying that goes on for not fitting in.