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Welters, Linda. "The Natural Look: American Style in the 1970s." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. 12:4 (2008): 489-510. This source focuses on the "look" identified on women in the nineteen seventies. Linda Welters, the author, describes the seventies appearance as natural. Welters divides the natural look into six catergories, "natural hair, natural body, natural cosmetics, natural materials, handcrafted clothing and accessories." I can use this article to compare and contrast how the natural look has continued into our generation, or how it has not. This source also gives good insight into trends seen with nineteen-seventies clothing.

Critchell, Samantha. "Seventies look in spring fashion mirrors modern tastes and times." DailyNews Los Angeles. Los Angeles Newspaper Group. 24 Oct. 2010. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. In this article, written by Samantha Critchell, she compares the styles of the nineteen-seventies to today. In popular fashion shows, like ones in Milan, styles of the seventies are making a comeback. Some seventies fashion consists of high-wasted skirts, flowing shirts, long dresses, trousers, and shirtdresses. The colors and patterns are distinct, which makes this decade of fashion really stand out. This article is helpful in comparing and relating seventies fashion to today's fashion.

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.

Smith, Ray A. "'70s Style: Ridiculous or Right On?" Wall Street Journal-Eastern Edition 256 October 2010. This article focuses on today's fashion shown in several fashion shows this fall. The author, Ray A Smith, notices the parallels between today's fashion shown on the runways versus the fashion shown on the runways in the '70s. Smith investigates reasons as to why many designers today bring back styles from the '70s. This article will help me understand and be able to notice the close similarities between today's fashion to the fashion of the '70s.