Fashion. One week your shirt's in, the next your pants are out. Tossed into the sale section like food a day past it's sell by date. Yesterdays news, but still at a ridiculously inflated price.
My question is who decides this? Which know-it-all decides my recently bought clothing no longer fits 'today's season?' Surely a warm jumper at the start of winter should still be in the same 'season' as an identical one mid-way through December? Or am I missing the point?
In this, the generation of size zero girls and eating disorders, surely this constant changing of 'fashion' isn't healthy for people, with the compamies pressuring people into this 'false fashion fakery' by following the fashion trend? With the feeling of not being up to date, and looking like one of the 'Burton boys' or 'Topman men' people are branded as different. The 'indie' style, in all it hypocritical glory, has served to create a nation of clones. How can you be 'individual' if in one day out people think they see you walk past twenty times?
And seasonal styles! Someone decided around two years ago that lumberjacks were cool, and had a good work uniform, consequently, converting the fashion of teenagers and uni students instantly. And now we have the farmer style. Plaid coats and tan pants and all in with the 'youth' because some executive in a suit said so. I worry for the future with the current 'workman' mentality. We've had lumberjack and farmer, so what's next? The mechanic, where we all wear dungarees and overcharge women? Or maybe the classic domestic cleaner, where we all wear a apron, smell of bleach and carry a mop bucket instead of the customary 'man bag'. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against these profession's uniform, I'm just intrigued as to were it will end.
The whole thing is basically a scam employed to take as much money from the gullible as possible. To be honest I'm happier wearing my own style, and if that means waiting until the sales for nice clothing at a reasonable price, then so be it.
- JQ
In this, the generation of size zero girls and eating disorders, surely this constant changing of 'fashion' isn't healthy for people, with the compamies pressuring people into this 'false fashion fakery' by following the fashion trend? With the feeling of not being up to date, and looking like one of the 'Burton boys' or 'Topman men' people are branded as different. The 'indie' style, in all it hypocritical glory, has served to create a nation of clones. How can you be 'individual' if in one day out people think they see you walk past twenty times?
And seasonal styles! Someone decided around two years ago that lumberjacks were cool, and had a good work uniform, consequently, converting the fashion of teenagers and uni students instantly. And now we have the farmer style. Plaid coats and tan pants and all in with the 'youth' because some executive in a suit said so. I worry for the future with the current 'workman' mentality. We've had lumberjack and farmer, so what's next? The mechanic, where we all wear dungarees and overcharge women? Or maybe the classic domestic cleaner, where we all wear a apron, smell of bleach and carry a mop bucket instead of the customary 'man bag'. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against these profession's uniform, I'm just intrigued as to were it will end.
The whole thing is basically a scam employed to take as much money from the gullible as possible. To be honest I'm happier wearing my own style, and if that means waiting until the sales for nice clothing at a reasonable price, then so be it.
- JQ
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