Post 5

At the beginning of the semester, I understand fashion as its most common definition. Fashion represents the popular style trending in the current time. It seems fashion as a very vague word and it is about something that hollows on the inside. However, after a semester of fashion study classes and reading current fashion issues, I am seeing more a further layer for fashion’s definition. Fashion is a perception of beauty within a society and the perception of beauty changes all the time. But fashion does not only shows beauty, but it can also represent diversity. Fashion can be seen as a way of propaganda. It can also be a reflection of society. Fashion points out social issues, which fashion evolves while society faces huge changes. For example, with COVID-19 being a huge challenge to the world, people start to think more about designing practical protective garments for medical workers. The two quotes I picked for my first post fashion is not necessarily spectacular (though it often conforms to the theory of the society of the spectacle), it can also be demotic, ordinary, mundane, routine and humble. It is the stuff of the ethnographer and the anthropologist” and “fashion can be about confirmation, of self and others. But it is also about anxiety, ambiguity, and worry. As an aid to understanding psychological complexities, it is unsurpassed” became more comprehensible to me. These two quotes state that fashion can also be about self, presenting someone’s personal feelings. People are able to present themselves throughout their outfit. Different color equals a different mood. When someone passed away in china, people wear all white to attend the funeral, which makes white as a color that symbolizes death and sorrow. When a couple is getting married, they would wear red, which is a color that shows happiness. Fashion can transform in many different ways; fashion is part of our daily life.  

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