How I Came to Change My Mind About Fashion

I have no doubt that I love fashion so much; I love how it reflects our personality in part while increasing the self-confidence. But too often, I came across thinking the opposite way; fashion enslaves people as it is becoming more unrealistic. I switched my mind due to direct observations on public surroundings and media portrayals.

Isn't it true that fashion matters so much to us? It has incredible power in making some people feel superior to others. Those who dress according to the latest trend will enjoy greater attention than those who are not. This eventually led to a bias assumption made by people to judge others from the outside rather than inside. Fashion ultimately sets a gap in our society by subtly rank people into several types of cliques. Unwittingly, it drives some people to follow the crowd by all means possible to avoid falling into the inferior category. If we blindly accept all the unnecessary fashion theories from head to toe, we will continuously not feeling satisfied with what we have had previously due to the power of fashion’s revolution.

I found these points to be relevant as I come reading other internet users' blogs. Blogs have become a tool to show off one's fashion styles and desires. It tells how some people getting so eager to have new clothings and branded stuffs while showing off their new tops, bottoms, bags-almost everything. I also feel that fashion controls our decision making. People tend to get attracted to new styles as advertised in magazine and television, without taking their body image and purchasing power into consideration beforehand. The up to date fashions are tend to be weird and unrealistically expensive which caused people to waste money on the stuff that they will never wear. It was truly happened to me when I regretted buying branded stuffs after a while, when the happiness is gone. A friend of mine also ended up feeling the same once he purchased a pair of super expensive shoes from Gucci. He argues how fashion can be bad based on his experience to run a business and deals with people from varying backgrounds. He convinced me how some people tend to hide their personalities behind great fashion styles in order to get a partnership in business projects. Those people usually aren't really the right persons to hold a share; they don't really own much to invest on those projects.

So, why don’t we remain flexible in choosing moderate fashion without being enslaved by its cruel power? I feel that we should not have to fear the power of fashion upon judging ones’ status nor should we feel embarrassed by what the people around us are wearing. That is why I think fashion is bad. Now, I favor people to be themselves, style in their own affordable ways and most important not to judge a book by its cover.