A question of taste. Fashion
A question of taste. Fashion
A QUESTION OF
TASTE. FASHION.
Fashion is something we
deal with everyday. Even people, who say they don’t care what they wear, choose
clothes every morning that say a lot about them and how they feel that day.
What influences our
choice of clothes is an interesting question. I believe that most of the people
do not follow the fashion displayed on the catwalk. That kind of clothes is the
product of famous high-class designers’ work, it is more often very extravagant
and extremely expensive. It is also not designed to be worn every day, but it
is suitable some special occasions.
However, we definitely
get fashion ideas from music clips, videos, books and television. Movies also
have a big impact on what people wear. For example it is known that more
sunglasses were sold in America after the movie Man In Black. Sometimes a trend
is world-wide. Back in the 50-s teenagers everywhere dressed like Elvis
Presley.
Musicians and other
cultural icons as well as political and royal figures have always influenced
what we are wearing. Newspapers and magazines reported on what Hillary Clinton
was wearing when she was the 1st lady. The death of Princess Diana
was a severe blow to the high fashion world, where her clothes were daily news.
Depending on their
attitude towards clothes and fashion, people can be divided in three groups:
fashion slaves,
spending all their money on the latest clothes even if they don’t look good in
them;
fashion fans, who
enjoy wearing modern clothes but not obsessed by them
and
people who just don’t
care how they look.
Personally I place
myself between fashion fans and people who don’t care how they look. Although I
enjoy shopping very much and like to try things on, especially when I look good
in them, I don’t spend much time choosing and buying clothes. And of course I
do it only when I really need something new to wear, and not in order to kill
time.
My style and the range
of clothes that I have are defined by the activities I engage in. Work occupies
most of my time and therefore most of the clothes that I have corresponds with
the dress code, registered in the policy of our company. According to the dress
code, an employee is not allowed to wear certain items of clothing to work. For
example, men are supposed to wear ties and business suits, and nobody is
allowed to wear jeans, except on Fridays. Women’s clothes are not supposed to
be skin-tight, too short and too open. All of the shirts are supposed to have
collars. Clothes also can’t be too bright, the colors should correspond to the
corporate colors – dark blue and white.
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