Essay – What is Required

During the workshop today we had to discuss what we had found from researching our fashion artefact to someone else in the class with a different artefact leading me to realise that I need to expand on my knowledge of trainers as I could only state the bare facts. Therefore I will go to the library soon and take out at least 4 books relating to the history of footwear and different perspectives on trainers, e.g. from different cultures of brands.

A lot of us in the group were looking towards street wear brands like Nike and Adidas which is what I was leaning towards as it would be convenient to gain research for as I wear them myself. However, I did want to stray away from what the majority of people in my group were researching into.

The essay plan seemed difficult as I didn’t know what aspects of my research and experimentation to lay out into each section however I feel like this was due to my lack of research and experimentation therefore my aims for the week are to further my primary research, as stated in my last post, and to seek out a wider range of sources including books to narrow down the rand that I would like to focus on as these are factors I need to consider as they will help me form the basis of my essay.