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When somebody starts to make fashion college, already it thinks about the theme that is going to work in its final work - after four years (!).

It wasn’t diferent with me. I wanted something really special, something that would change the life of who saw the collection. Today I’m sure that the theme changed my life and I hope I can give people a little bit about what I learned.

The collection worked over a theme called Tzniut, that is a set of  Jewish rules (alachot) about dress code, where Jewish girls have to use skirts or dresses that cover 5 fingers below the knees and cover their elbows. It’s all about being reserved and focus not the aesthetic beauty but all the other attributes of the personality.

Today fashion is a way that communicates what people think, but each one can receive the aesthetic idea  differently, so people have a different idea about the person that is usually different about what was being communicated at first.

That’s why tzniut is so important, because since you know who you are you can have a real and true expression through fashion.

Any kind of sign that is realized over the body, in a tattoo, painting, clothing or surgery way, for example, can be understood like fashion, and this behavior is the first step for the culture construction, since the body is varied from the natural form to what is considered beautiful or different, when necessary.

Fashion is a natural part from culture and helps with the steady construction.

Study from the book: CASTILHO, Kathia. Moda e linguagem. Editoria Anhembi Morumbi, 2006

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Anatomicamente somos desprovidos de adornos (portuguese)

I’ve selected one look that attends tzniut rules (skirts or dresses that cover five fingers below the knees and sleeves that cover the elbows) so we can get an inspiration to have the jewish way of dressing beautifully for Shabat today!

You can see more comentaries for this picture at Startorialist blog.

What’s beautiful in her look? I like the way the coat is long and almost reaches the end of the skirt.  The length of the coat alows her to use a bulky or a straight skirt.  Thats why the coat goes ok with the skirt, because it ends almost at the same place.

Shorter coats will match with skirts only if they are long (untill the feet).

And then, the scarf. It gives a swanky image to the look, completing like a kind of necklace.

So when choosing what to dress today, you can choose: a skirt, a longer button-down shirt and a scarf. You can use the scarf at the waistline to shape clothes at the body or at the neck. But the most important thing related to the lengths are that you have to feel confortable, if it doesn’t seem confortable maybe its because it’s really not beautifull! ;)

Shabat Shalom!

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This question looks simple when the answer is the own name. But when trying for a deepest answer, the question seems tricky. To answer this question, you need self-knowledge, so who are you?

Mostly the identification is done from the surface. At the first moment of an analysis of yourself, the physical characteristics will appear first, that is, I’m tall, I’m thin, I’m blond. At the second moment, deepening, the identifications are about what one thinks or how he acts, for example, the profession (I’m doctor, I’m teacher), the ideology (I’m socialist) or the activity (I’m good student, I’m soccer player).

But this identifications are outward and superficial because,

- Are physical characteristics, can change quickly.

- The function performance needs other people estimation.

- Be yourself just happens with material realizations.

“Who would you be if you couldn’t put into effect what you do?“

This identification also happens when we are analyzed by others or when analyzing others, first with the physical characteristics, second through the actions and last, the emotional characteristics are noticed.

With everything noticed by the surface, a tree is seen:

- Build with roots, trunk and leafs.

Used to this kind of view, tzniut asks you to see the tree:

- With the history, with the capacity of survive for a long time and goes beyond, realizing the capacity of providing oxygen.

Tzniut is looking to ourselves through the superficial coats and realizing a possibility of life and existence in a deepest way. It’s seen like a key for all self-knowledge and spirituality growth.

Study from the book: MANOLSON, Gila. Além do Espelho - um enfoque atual sobre Tsniut, Editoria Sêfer

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http://ihhie.com/looking-yourself - How do we look to ourselfs and to our tshuva?

http://ihhie.com/parables-of-the-truth - Is truth so ugly that everyone avoids?

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Who are you?

Quem é você? (Portuguese)

When you find yourself going to a meeting, with what do you get worried? Maybe with your make-up or with your blazer or even the colors of your cloth?

When you go meeting your family? You’ll get worried with what your wearing under the coat, your shoes or t-shirt.

And if you go to see your doctor? Your going to worry with your undercloth, inclusively with your body , aren’t you?

That’s some of the lots of levels we can look at TSHUVA, superficial, medium, or internaly! Also, the way we dress, reflects what we think of ourselfs. Doesn’t it?