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When I first entered college the look on woman was different than it is today. Lip Gloss, Apple Bottom jeans, multiple wrist bangles, and different sorts of colors all mixed in to one outfit. The rap culture didn’t have as much a hold on the woman today as it did then. At that time there was no Nikki Minaj and Beyonce Knowles was big but wasn’t as adored highly as she is today. Woman were looking for their modern look and looking for that one person to come into the main stream to give them the identity and answer the question woman had on their minds, what’s a Modern Girl to do?. Today a question can be asked what the modern girl is or what makes a girl modern? Is the modern girl considered to be light skin with long hair? Is the modern girl a woman who embraces her natural beauty with natural hair? Is the natural girl the woman with long weave? I don’t think there’s a definite answer on what makes a girl modern. As I have been reading the novel “The Modern Girl around the World” I see myself walking around the mall and looking at women and the way they are dressed from the hair all the way to their shoes. I catch myself from looking at them as if I’m trying to critique but more if what their wearing considered to be modern. Could what they are wearing be something marketed twenty years ago? or even five years ago. I struggled with that answer a little bit. Fashion and markets to sell to change and switch like a clock. One day top wearing belly button jeans are “IN” and the next week they can be considered a thing of the recent past. We as consumers rely on fashion markets and the trends being marketed to give us an idea of what’s being worn and what can be considered new.

When I hear the term “Bundle of Commodities” I struggle with that phrase. I struggle with that phrase because I don’t think there are bundles of commodities that define a woman’s modernity. I don’t believe there is a true definition or answer to commodity’s defining a woman. A woman’s