What is fashion?
Just to make things clear, Fashion and Style, are two completely different things. Fashion is art. Style is beauty. All fashion is supposed to be stylish, but the reality is, that only some fashion is stylish. Fashion is like art on people, there are some things I see on the runway, that I would never wear. People in boxes, with stripes, and waves, is this really fashion? Yes.
Ever heard someone say "Its what's on the inside that counts"? This is true, you can't judge someone just by how they look. But, people who say this, get dressed up when they go out to dinner, and don't wear their P.J's all day (well, many of them do, actually), and brush their hair. Why? Because they do care how they look. Even though it doesn't count, supposedly.
Yes. It is confusing. Very confusing.
This brings us to another topic, why do we care how we look? Do we want to look good for other people, or ourselves? I think this is different for everyone. We wear things for many reasons, here are just a few,
- We want to look cool, and we want others to think we are cool (or hip, or whatever you want call it)
- We want to show our personality
- We want to be comfortable
- We are happy when we look good
- Or, we are forced into clothing (like sweaters made by grandma, really, really frilly dresses, or huge puffy snow jackets) by our mothers
to be continued...