Fashion is a way of expressing ourselves through positioning garments on ourselves. Fashion serves as a expression to represent ourselves to other people, but also to ourselves about how we want to feel and look. I feel like this year, I really learned about how fashion is more for myself and how I want to feel as a true reflection of my thoughts and feelings of my body. Joanne Entwistle writes in The Dressed Body that”the very private and very visceral nature of dress which imposes itself on our experience of the body, expressing or constraining it, making us aware of the girth of our waist… the breadth of our shoulder blades, the length of our arms or legs” is a “very crucial aspect of our of our everyday experience of embodiment” (134). The way we choose a tighter fitting button up to a looser fitting shirt, reveals more about us and our representation of the body. An example is that I like to wear tighter fitting shirts because I like to wear loose bottoms because I like to hide my hip curves, and wearing a tighter shirts moves the eye to parts of my body that I am more comfortable sharing. This is a combination of how I want other people to perceive me, but this says a lot about my own embodiment of my self. I choose to see myself as being less curvy, so I would choose straight-leg slacks and the way it slides off of my curves and onto the ground creates an experience where this look makes true a vision I had of myself: less curvy hips. I have come to embrace my hips, but this feeling is alleviated much more easier when I hide them, so this fashion choice is my way of expressing myself.
