Definition of Fashion.

Fashion has different meaning to different people across the world, from east to west every culture and race defines fashion differently.To me fashion it means expression of myself and how i project that expression to the outside world. Growing up in a conservative household it was difficult trying to have your own sense of style as what was bought my parents no matter how hideous and unflattering it might have been was what you had to go parading yourself in, because to them we had to be dressed in an acceptable manner, a manner in which would not give reason for the neighbors to talk about. This meant no self expression was allowed or a case of indifference was permitted.

Moving away from my country of birth a few years before i hit my teen years was the best thing that happened to me with regard to the fashion exposure that i was yet to experience. Being in a country that had its own way of doing things (shall i say a more liberated people) was a new eye opening experience. People were individuals, with their own sense of style own sense of fashion. They dressed up not because they were told to but because they were expressive of who they were.

Before i knew it in this new different environment i was in expressing my fashion sense was easy and before long my parents too were in support of some of the fashion decisions i made. I was now an individual able to self express myself through my fashion sense being mindful of not having fashion dictated to me by the media.

The dictionary definition of what fashion is for those unsure of its meaning is:
The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.

To some individuals fashion is considered an art form to others a religion. They live for fashion, live to be the best dressed, live to be different from the norm.

For most people it is a method of utilizing clothing, accessories and hair to either show or hide something about oneself.  Expression of fashion can serve as an extension of ones personality: goth, skater, soccer mom and so forth.
Through fashion one can disguise ones true self: a conservative such as my self for example in vamp dark clothing for the sake of rebellion to my parents.



Fashion statements can also be made not only through clothing, shoes, hair, makeup but also other accessories such as cellphones or cars.


This is basically a sum up of what fashion is to me... :)

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