Fashion is a symbol of class, but also of expressing one’s uniqueness. Individuals use fashion to impose themselves and as a way of exerting their power over others. Though fashion can be considered as a cycle, it can also be considered a never-ending trend; which evolves and leaves some in and some out … most are out.
While fashion trends represent an individual’s personality, they can also make an individual part of a social group which he or she might or might not belong to. It is unusual for those at the bottom to set fashion trends … they do not have the means to do so. When those at the bottom have obtained the new fall/winter outfit, fashion designers have already come out with the spring outfit. Those at the top–usually celebrities–are the fashion ‘setters,’ those who have the means to constantly change their clothing styles.
Moreover, while the bottom classes can get away with keeping their fashion style those at the top can’t. They have to separate themselves from the lower classes; they have an image to take care of; and fashion is something that must be change on a daily basis because “one day you are in and one day you are out.”
***Previously Published on my first blog
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