Lesson 2:

Clothing for Different Occasions

Prepared by: Teacher Marielle

 Selecting Clothes
Clothes play a part in person’s self image. People are often described through their
clothing style. Clothes make up the biggest part of a person’s physical appearance.
Clothes can bring about changes in your personal appearance. The clothes you wear
can affect you in many ways. Wearing appropriate clothes is important in satisfying
your personal need.

Keeping in mind the guidelines in selecting clothes would help you decide the most
appropriate attire for an activity or occasion.
 Here are some points to consider in selecting clothes.

1. The color of the clothes should complement the person’s complexion. Colors like red and
green are good for those with fair complexion. On the other hand, cream and pastel colors are
appropriate for people with brown complexion.

2. Clothe with vertical designs make one look tall and slim. These are good for persons who
are short and plump.

3. Clothes with horizontal lines make a figure appear shorter and wider. These are good for
persons who are tall and slim.
4. Clothes with large designs suits persons with slim figure while small designs are suitable
for the plump ones.

5. Clothes should fit the age, occasion, time, place, weather condition, and one’s role in a
particular gathering or activity.
 Different Kinds of Clothing
Wearing the appropriate attire makes one feel comfortable and attractive. It
must suit the occasion, time, and place.

Selecting clothes wisely and carefully is important. Wearing the right

clothes gives comfort and self confidence.
1. Uniform are worn in offices
and schools. Girls wear blouse
and skirt while boys wear polo
shirt and long pants. Uniforms
should be easy to wash. They
must also be durable.
2. Clothes worn daily at home
should be loose, durable and
simple in style. Cotton is a type of
fabric most appropriate for home
wear because it is absorbent and
can be washed easily. Wear clothes
that are neat and clean even at
home.
3. Elegant clothes are worn during
special occasions like birthdays,
weddings, and other related
celebrations. They nay be single in
style but are made of special fabrics
like silk, linen, wool and satin.
4. Clothes worn during
bedtime, should be simple and
loose, light, and absorbent.
Pajamas, dusters, and nighties
are comfortable to wear.
5. Bathing suits, shorts and
swimming trunks are worn in
swimming pools and beaches.
6. Dress, clothes with sleeves,
and pants are appropriate for
religious activities held in
places of worship. Refrain
from wearing with hollow
opening at the neck and at the
back. It is proper to follow
what is prescribed and
accepted by your religious
group.
Caring for Clothes
Why is it important for teenagers to learn how to wash their
own clothes, bleaching and ironing them?
Clothes will last longer if they are well taken care of. Here are some
reminders on how to keep your clothes presentable.

1. Immediately change clothes which you have already worn. Hang

your clothes and let them dry before putting them in the hamper.
2. Hang clean clothes especially those for outdoor activities. Clothes worn
at home may be folded and arranged neatly in the closet.

3. Fold and place rarely worn clothes inside a plastic bag or keep them on
the upper part of the wardrobe cabinet. Keep them clean, neatly folded and
free from spots or stains.

4. Repair at once clothes with rips, unstitched hems, tears, and holes.

5. Remove stains immediately while they are still fresh.

 Removing Stains
Clothes must be free from stains. To have a stain on one’s clothes does not
speak well of the person. Today, it is easy to remove stains with the use of
newly formulated detergents.

Here are effective ways of removing stains.

 Stain Materials Procedure

Blood • Lukewarm soapy water • Soak in cold water. Rub the

• Cold Water fabric in lukewarm soapy
water.
• Rinse well
Chocolate • How water • Soak in the stained area in how
• How soapy water water
• Wash in hot soapy water
Fruit Juices, Coffee or Tea, • Cold Water • Soak in cold water
cream/ice cream • Boiling Water • Stretch the stained portion
• Small Basin over and empty bowl.
• Calamansi Juice • Pour boiling water from a
height of one to two feet
• Rub calamansi juice on the
stained area.
Syrup • Hot Water • Soak in hot water and wash
thoroughly.
Grease from food
Chewing Gum
Scorch (Slightly burnt area)
• Liquid soap
• Warm soapy water
• Clean white blotting paper
• Flat Iron
• Powder
• Ice
• Knife
• Cleaning Fluid
• Scrubbing brush/toothbrush
• Detergent laundry soap.
• Wipe with cleaning fluid and
wash in warm soapy water.
• Sprinkle powder over the
greasy portion. Brush off.
Repeat, if necessary.
• Put the stained areas between
blotters and press using a flat
iron.
• Rub the chewing gum with an
ice cube.
• Scrape off the chewing gum.
• Wipe with cleaning fluid, if
needed.
• Scrub/Brush the burnt area
• Rub with detergent/soap.
Candle Wax • Carbon tetrachloride • Put carbon tetrachloride on
• Blotter the stained portion and rub it
• Flat Iron slowly.
• Place the stained area between
the blotters.
• Iron the clothes
Urine/Sweat • Vinegar • Wash the reddish underwear,
• Juice extracted from shorts, pajamas, or blouses in
calamansi, camias, balimbing water with vinegar or
calamansi extract.
• Bleach under the sun.
• Rinse well
Rust • Salt • Put salt and calamansi juice
• Calamansi on the stained area and bleach
• Soap it under the sun. Soap and
rinse.
• Use commercial stain remover
for white garments. Soap and
rinse
Mold or mildew • Brush • scrub the stained garment.
• Hot Water • Wash in hot water and bleach
• Calamansi Juice under the sun.
• Soap • Apply in calamansi juice and
bleach again
• Soap and rinse.
Egg/ Meat Juices • Cold Water • Wash in hot or lukewarm
• Hot or lukewarm soapy water soapy water
• Rinse in cold water
Lipstick • Glycerin or petroleum jelly • Wipe with glycerin of
• Hot suds petroleum jelly.
• Carbon Tetrachloride • Wash in hot suds.
• If the stain remains, wipe it
with tetrachloride.
Paint • Knife • Scrub the stain
• Paint Thinner • Apply paint thinner
• Lukewarm soapy water • Wash in lukewarm soapy
water.
 Answer Worksheet No. 4&5
Answer Test Yourself A page 23.