What's in Fashion

What is Fashion?
By Omer Javaid

The term Fashion is not just confined to consolidate the notions of wearing the latest, or follow branding etc. Fashion stands for a stimulus or a culture in which your identity and your personality is depicted and communicated to the other lot. Now this may include that how you dress up, what you eat, and even what is your behavior under certain conditions. This all is included in the stream of fashion. Every native, non-native or any person of any race, creed or cast all over the world has likely to have one thing in common. A particular strip in the universe wears gowns; another mass is likely to eat Chinese food. These are all traits, that depict fashion and this specific style and way of living is the identity of any particular group for what they are known for.

The modern enhancements and the global industrial revolution has set up sundry trends that have an impact directly, or in directly in to one's individual and social life style. There are certain trends set up in a particular society that drenches the group members into a common replete identical life style. Wearing the latest is considered to be amongst the trend setting fashion in the modern societies. Branding has successfully enabled the entrepreneurs to communicate to their target market at a very niche level and so this has become the need of one's life to wear what is in the market and by what they could become cynosure of all eyes. Amongst the wearing stream, comes not only the dresses; but also sun glasses, jewelry, shoes, watches, etc. Similarly various cuisines all over the world have an identity of their own. People eating chicken corn soup immediately are referred to being Chinese and so as to eat Coq au van, as French.

But in the mélange of various cultures, ethics and norms; the intrinsic meaning of fashion should not be inhibited. Fashion is all about the mental state of the society as a whole, you can not enforce some thing considering it as fashion. Fashion should be followed under the organic standards set up or proactively known. A decent fashion is the medium that carries the environment of yours. Fashion is the representation of the ethics too, of a society so the idea of over exaggeration by putting behind the ethics, is not fashion and is not a standard on what fashion is being produced.