Fashion - The New Culture
Posted on 29. May, 2008 by admin in Fashion
Fashion refers to the style of the clothes we put on our body. Because of this, there are many fashion designers emerging overnight and selling off their masterpieces at a price unimaginable for people like me. Soon, new terms emerged from the fashion scene. There are terms like ‘fashionable’ and ‘unfashionable’. So what’s with the terms? Fashionable is a word to describe a person with a great fashion taste, meaning he or she dresses well with nice clothes probably designed by some high-end fashion designer. As for unfashionable, it is a term to describe people with bad fashion, meaning people who wear street dresses, probably being mass-produced and designed by some low profile fashion designer wannabe.
Why are we so trapped in the fashion scene? To be more precise, women are trapped in the fashion scene. Being a woman, you constantly want to look good and pretty and this is where the pressures come in. Everyday, there are fashion shows at the big cities such as Paris and New York. You can expect the A-list Hollywood stars booking several designers to design dresses for them to wear at the red carpet events. Soon, you will find yourself fantasizing about wearing the same dress as the superstars and before you know it, you are making your way to the most high end boutiques in your area and swiping your card just to get the exact same dress, only to find out that you will have live on bread for the next two months in order to be able to compensate what you have spent earlier.
Some of us ladies, the ‘unfashionable’ types, don’t care about the fashion scene as we are all struggling to work to earn a meagre living to support our family. However, we can never run away from the fact that the fashion scene is a new culture that we must embrace, regardless of whether we like it or not, as we are not given the power and position to determine what is good and what is bad for us. As for now, we all just have to cope with the so-called high-end fashion designers and their so-fake beautiful models. In times to come, fashion will have a whole new meaning none of us can ever understand.
