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Sischy, Ingrid. "Coco Chanel. (Cover story)." Time 151.22 (1998): 98. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This article is a retrospect from TIME magazine about the designer Coco Chanel. It talks about how other famous designers have copied some of Chanel's strategies. How she offered the people that wore her clothes were given the feeling of "hidden luxury" rather than outwardly ostentatious luxury. The article speaks about how Chanel constantly spoke of femininity rather than feminism. Chanel was part of a movement of designers that made fashion a type of art and expressing yourself. The article also talks about the way that Chanel "stuck it to the man", so to speak. It speaks about her early life and how she got to be the famous designer that she ended her life as

Fawcett, Hilary. "Fashioning The Second Wave: Issues across Generations." Studies in the Literary Imagination. March 1975-2010. Hilary Fawcett discusses fashion and how it effected women rights. The styles of the nineteen-seventies greatly influenced the women's rights movement. Fawcett also explores the connection between fashion to how women are percieved; she describes the fashion of her generation in the 1960s and 1970s, to the style and fashion of young girls now. This article will help me describe styles from the seventies and compare them to styles today. It will also help me explain the amount of respect clothing can give off to the public, when women are wearing different trends.