VOA慢速英语2015 新的女孩服装品牌挑战刻板性别印象
时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:2015年VOA慢速英语(三)月
AS IT IS 2015-03-29 New Girls' Clothing Line Breaks Stereotypes 新的女孩服装品牌挑战刻板性别印象
Many little girls like flowers, watching butterflies and riding ponies 1. A lot of them also like cars, robots and spaceships. But most girls’ clothing only has pictures of flowers, butterflies or ponies.
Two mothers decided 2 to make clothes that are more representative of all the things that little girls are, and do, and love.
Six-year-old Bella loves to build houses and play with cars.
"I like Barbie also dinosaurs 4."
So her dress has pictures of dinosaurs on it.
"I need a train to put on the train track."
Her friend Penny enjoys making things with building blocks.
"I like to make trucks."
The four-year old also likes the colors pink and purple, and the dress she is wearing. Cathy Tramontana is Penny’s mother.
"She really enjoys wearing it. It's bright, comfortable, and unique."
Penny’s clothing is unusual because it has images in the shape of the mathematical symbol pi. Cathy Tramontana says the design opens the door to discussions on mathematics.
"We haven't found this type of dress in the store."
The pi and dinosaur 3 dresses are from a new girl's clothing line called Princess Awesome 5. Rebecca Melsky set up the business. She says its products for girls have some designs normally found on boys' clothes.
"I think that a girl wearing a dress with science on it. She's telling the world when she's out that this is something she's interested in. She can love girly things and also love science. It tells that science is just as much for girls as it is for boys."
It all started two years ago when Rebecca Melsky was hoping to buy clothing for her two-year-old, who refused to wear anything but a dress. Ms. Melsky bought pajamas 6 meant for boys because her daughter also liked robots, trucks and spaceships.
"One day I would walk out past through the girls' section of the store, I thought to myself I wish they'd make one of those cute dresses that also have a robot on it or a dinosaur because she will wear that. She will love that. And I thought someone should do that. Maybe I should do that."
Her friend Eva St. Clair believed she should, and their business was born. The two women got together on Saturdays.
They used fabrics 8 with images of trucks, airplanes, pirates and atoms. They also created art dresses based on works by Van Gogh and Monet.
"Usually Rebecca and I would be down in my basement. Rebecca would cut and I would stitch. And we got to where we could do about four in an hour."
The women sold the first 70 dresses they made at a local market. So the founders 9 decided to expand their business online. Their products sold very well there, too.
"These sold out so fast that I could not make them fast enough. We decided it was time to figure out how to go into a factory."
So they turned to a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign.
Crowdfunding is a way to raise money from a large number of people over the Internet to support a project. The women met their goal of $35,000 within days and raised more than $215,000 in donations.
"Our biggest challenge is going to be how do we expand as rapidly as people seem to want us to."
The founders hope Princess Awesome will expand into products for girls of all ages and all interests.
Words in this Story
discussion – n. the act of talking about something with another person or a group of people
fabric 7 – n. woven or knitted material, cloth
stitch – n. a piece of thread that is passed through a piece of material with a needle
- They drove the ponies into a corral. 他们把矮种马赶进了畜栏。
- She has a mania for ponies. 她特别喜欢小马。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击?
- He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。
- The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
- That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
- At bedtime,I take off my clothes and put on my pajamas.睡觉时,我脱去衣服,换上睡衣。
- He was wearing striped pajamas.他穿着带条纹的睡衣裤。
- The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
- I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。