Fashion Observation Analysis

1. Go to a public place and OBSERVE the community of people in that place for at least 30 minutes; perhaps as long as 60 minutes. In your report, describe the setting and note the date and time of your observation. Describe the element of “community” that you observed. The public place, in which I chose to observe fashion, was a community fall festival. This festival occurs once a year and brings people from several communities. I arrived at the festival in early afternoon, around 12:30 pm. The festival was just starting to get crowded. At this time there were mostly families with children present. I observed numerous families with babies in strollers. There were at least twenty “vendor” booths operating this day. Vendor booths are individuals or companies who have come to the festival and set up a booth or concession truck to sell and promote their products. There were booths selling homemade baked goods, hair bows for little girls, Halloween and Christmas decorations, and make-up, to name a few. This festival also included a small carnival with rides and games.
2. Take notes describing your observations, giving special attention to recording:
A. The ages and other demographic characteristics that are observed; elaborate in your description about how you determined demographic characteristics such as socio- economic class and education levels. Throughout the course of my observation, I noticed that most of vendors that were selling baked goods and hair products were older women. The concession booths were all young males, with one or two middle-aged females, who appeared to be the supervisor. I came to this conclusion because the women were not doing much of the serving, but were walking from booth to booth, giving directions. The patrons that were frequenting these booths were primarily young families with small