There are so many different factors that go into consideration when trying to understand our bodies. After talking in class and talking about how others are seeing your body and creating this sense of meaning that they give you. I had never thought about how others may see my outfits as a political or cultural statement, when really it is just the first thing I found in the morning to wear. I can also understand how we dress to make a statement. Today we can see how political movements are expressed through clothing. For example, it was common to see people wearing a shirt that said “BLM” or even a shirt that would support Trump or Biden at the time of elections. The purpose behind saying that is to think that some people may try to pass a cultural or political message through clothing but sometimes people are not trying but a message about how you dress will be created by people who see you in passing. Talking about what shapes our understanding of bodies like fashion and beauty. We may see certain fashion and beauty standards that we feel we must follow the trends, but they do not represent who we think we are. There are beauty trends to do full faces of makeup and understanding that not everyone wants to fit the standards. We see other things like religion trying to persuade us how you should dress and act. You can see religion as shaping what you wear or being judged if you do not. I personally dress for what environment I will be in, whether it is hot or cold. I do not take into effect how people may read my body based off what I wear when I am not dressing for them.