Fashion may be defined as the way of living, decorating, etc. which are popular today, but would soon lose their popularity.It is something passing and transitory, a mere craze of the moment to be looked down upon with contempt.For example, tight pants are the fashion today, but only a short while ago broad loose pants were the order of the day. If today a man appears in society wearing broad pants, he would be held up to ridicule, but only a few years ago they were the height of fashion, symbols of good taste and culture...
.jpg)
a typical african jewellery.
Fashion is a tyrant; no tyrant is greater than that of fashion. Everyone tries to imitate the latest fashions. The youth specially are mad after it. They would not mind any expenditure to be in fashion. they must have their clothes cut according to the latest vogue, their hair made up according to the latest style, even if these places a heavy burden of their parents. Many of them realize that a particular fashion would soon pass away; even then they waste their money over it. Costly articles of dress are often discarded, only because the fashion has passed away. Girls, specially educated ones, are worst sinners of this respect. They are crazy over Sarees of latest prints, ornaments of latest designs and other beauty aids which many happen to be popular at a particular time. Often, the entire family has to suffer owing to their craze for fashion. many family discords and quarrels may be traced to this tyrant.
Such is the tyranny of the fashion that the fashion-drunk do not even care for their personal convenience. Popular articles of dress are often worn even if they make bodily movement difficult, and put the wearer to great hardship. Girls wear tight clothes, as tight as possible, even though the dress is entirely inconvenient. They are not move about to comfort, or to attend to their household work, but still tight dresses are worn because others also use them. They do not even care for modesty or decency in their craze for fashion. Similar is the case with young men, they continue to wear tight pants, even though they freely acknowledge that their dress is highly inconvenient for them. Fashion is a tyrant which exacts strict adherence to its orders from its slaves.
The fashion loving do not even care for their time.They have no sense of its value. Fashionable young men and women waste much of their time in make-up and dressing up. Modern girls waste their hours in applying lipstick, rouge powder and beauty aids. They must do that hair according to the latest style, however ridiculous it may be. They would go to bed with their hair well oiled so that there may be no need of oil the next day and they may go out with their hair dry, according to the fashion......
Studies may suffer but who cares for it?? Similarly, the fashion crazy young men waste their precious time in the pursuit of fashion they take hours over their hair.
Fashion is a way to show a person’s form of personal
expression, a display of self-concept, the amount of wealth a person may have,
and how the fashion and advertising industries influence them. But where has
the influence come from that has made it such a huge importance in our everyday
lives? The fashion, media and advertising industries, are very prominent in
teenagers lives. Watching TV, celebrities that they see, searching the
Internet, and reading magazines are the very way that teenagers come into contact
with these industries, thus it is all around them. The advertising that the
youth of today are being exposed to is misleading, very prominent in today’s
society and are sending the wrong idea to the girls and boys of today. You only
need to open a current magazine to observe that fashion is a focus in our
community. Influence from fashion advertising can cause many strains on the
teenager, their family and peer group. Today’s youth are given the unrealistic
expectation that they can be perfect and are willing to do anything, to be that
perfect person.
Clothes these days are getting more and more
provocative. They are revealing more skin and sending the wrong message to
today’s community. “Sexual images are now an "inescapable" part of a
child's environment,” (Rose 2010). Sexuality has been portrayed in various
media representations that can set a certain standard of ‘beauty’ that is
misleading or unrepresentative. Many media industries have failed to protect
today’s youth from the onslaught of sexualised content that today’s advertising
bring. “Many parents are concerned that the media, fashion and its advertising
are encouraging girls to dress more provocatively and promote the early
adoption of a sexual identity,”
Celebrities are very influential in today’s
society. Teenagers are constantly faced with the unrealistic expectation that
they can be perfect and that they need to be perfect in order to feel confident.
All fashions are futile.
They have a tendency to filter downwards. They spread from the rich to the poor
and from the advance and prosperous countries to the backward and poor ones. By
the time the fashion has reached from one class or country to another, it tends
to be discard by the class or country which originated it. Many of those who
try to be in fashion do know that it is fleeting. But even then they are madly
followed as if nothing on earth matters more. Nothing brings out the tyranny of
fashion better than this fact
Very informative. And i also liked Ranbir's photo too
ReplyDelete