Storage for the Unmentionables (Draw for small garments, socks & under garments)
Purpose - The designed unit is simply a storage unit for small garment items. These include socks, singlets and undergarments.
Target market – There is two intended target markets, 1st is newly married couples (or old) with no children and live in there own apartment and the other is single females who live in apartments alone or with another female.
Intended Use – The draw is fundamentally a free standing dresser draw for your small garment items. It can be position in most situations, from anywhere in the desired room, from the middle and corners of the room.
It not only stores these unmentionable items in a more unique manner but also is a decorative piece of furniture.
It adds a more presentable presence to, in this case “private items”. So hiding your dresser draw in the dark corner of a room may just be issues of the past.
Chinese traditional culture considered marriage and motherhood the only real option for women,but today, it's only one choice for many Chinese women.
Miss Wei, 37, is still living on her own in
In
The latest statistics from the All-China Women's Federation show that in the past five years registered marriages have decreased year by year, dropping in 2002 by 1 million on the number in 1998. Meanwhile, 1.2 million couples divorce every year, leaving many women single mothers.
"Though not all of them feel happy with their single status, they indeed have the choice to stay single," said Zhang Sining, a researcher with the Liaoning Institute of Social Sciences.
In addition to choosing to be single, more women delayed getting married and giving birth, or chose not to have children at all.
Horizon Survey and Index Network carried out a sample telephone survey recently on 1,031 residents aged from 18 to 60 in
Society gives women sufficient space to make their own choices and to decide their own destiny, said Jiang Yongping, Chinese women's affairs specialist.
Jiang said economically-independent Chinese women did not have to rely on their husband to buy houses, cars or clothes and society provided women more opportunities to join in social life.
Bao Qianyi, a 28-year-old teacher in the Foreign Economic and
"Marriage and motherhood are no longer obligations for women, but a status women can choose," said Bao, adding that she did not want anything, even a child, to disturb the harmony of her relationship.
Zhang said
"But no matter what women choose to be, society is more tolerant of their choices," said Zhang.
But men viewed the diversification of marriage choices differently. Though many of the male respondents recognized and accepted the trend, most preferred the more traditional thought that "marriage is the best end-result for women."
Cao Yudong, a Ph.D student in the China Institute of Social Sciences, said that although he could accept the thought of diversified life styles, he himself had no intention of marrying a woman with such radical ideas.
http://english.people.com.cn/200308/25/eng20030825_122990.shtml
"Chinese people should consume Chinese products!"
This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern "nation" with its own "national products." From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China's burgeoning consumer culture. Anti-imperialist boycotts, commemorations of national humiliations, exhibitions of Chinese products, the vilification of treasonous consumers, and the promotion of Chinese captains of industry helped enforce nationalistic consumption and spread the message--patriotic Chinese bought goods made of Chinese materials by Chinese workers in factories owned and run by Chinese.
In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world--nationalism and consumerism--developed in tandem in China. Early in the twentieth century, nationalism branded every commodity as either "Chinese" or "foreign," and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalized, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations.
