IF
I WERE AN ARTICLE OF CLOTHING
Students will write a 3-5-paragraph
essay to complete the following statement.
“If I were an article
of clothing, I would be…”
Included in this essay must
be a detailed description of what the article of clothing looks like,
the characteristics of the article of clothing which are similar to
your characteristics as a person, and how you would spend your day as
this article of clothing. (What would you do? where would you go?)
Each paragraph must be at
least 5 sentences in length.
Example:
If I were an article of clothing, I would be a pair of indigo sandblast
Levi´s Super Low Boot Cut Jeans. I have a flirty low-rise styling
in slim-fitting stretch denim with a 32” inseam. Notice my classic
five-pocket styling and button fly. I am made of the best denim fabric
known to mankind, cotton/lycra spandex. I am machine washable.
I am everyone’s favorite
thing to wear and am extremely versatile since I can be dressed up or
down. I promise to always make you look good. I even make you happy
when you feel like you’ve gained ten pounds. I make you look sexy
when you go on a date. I am a classic. I will never go out of style.
My owner will wear me every week, until the brink of death when I am
faded and my inseam is falling apart.
A day in my life would be
spent in Nordstrom’s. A pretty, young Marketing teacher would
spot me from across the store. Yes! I am her size, but do I fit her?
She takes me to the dressing room for the dreaded trying on process.
A perfect fit! She admires me in the mirror. Or is she admiring herself?
Yeah, I make her look good and she knows it. She doesn’t even
take me off. She walks up to the cashier in the jeans department. All
the other jeans are jealous because she picked me. No one has ever been
worn out of the store before, that is, until now. After she pays for
me and walks away from the cashier, he checks her out. No, wait, he’s
not checking her out, he’s admiring the detailed stitch on my
back pockets. He’s checking me out! Hey, slow down Marketing teacher.
What’s the hurry? If he wants to look, let him. She stops. Now’s
my chance. Hey babe, what’s your name?
Oh, I’m good.
Tina Walsh
Lake Taylor HS
Norfolk VA
