Fashion. Fashion has been being ever. And people, who are in fashion or not, have been ever too. So at one moment question of my essay will stand up before each child or teenager, who is influenced of public and peers’ opinion in particular, “Should I look nice and follow fashion?”. In this essay I’ll answer on this question with my punk view. I am going to consider only the second part my topic (about fashion and its following), because I think that word “nice” is too blurry and everybody has their own understanding.
I think fashion and its following mustn’t have big value and role in our life. There’re a lot of reasons of me opinion. At first, modern “high” fashion is very uncomfortable and impractical, expensive and inaccessible, and, of course, clothes from some famous designers can be very “strange” and incomprehensible for simple men in the street, and I aren’t talking about the biggest prices. This problem leads us to the second reason: inaccessibility of fashion clothes makes class inequality and the second problem, which is described better by old Russian proverb: “Meeting on clothes, but escorted to the mind”. I.e. our first view about man depends from his (or her) look too much. And here I would like to write about the sorest problem of fashion (and the school uniform, in particular, for me as a pupil) – when you are following fashion, want to please people, who see in you only “candy wrappers”, you are losing your chance for self-expression in clothes, so for some people you will be only empty wrapper, without stuffing, which is making your personality.
But I would be a fool if I didn’t understand that most men on our planet think and do as in the proverb, which was shown by me higher. And I don’t think that it is absolutely wrong, I understand that this “rule” couldn’t born on empty place, and it has its pros (grounds) and minuses: early I wrote about self-expression in our clothes, because I really consider clothes, that we wear, are reflection of our inner world, soul. In my opinion it’s normal to evalyuate people from their looks, but there is very big chance that this mark will be wrong.
In conclusion I repeat, that I understand fashion will unlikely disappear from our heads and planet, and it has a lot of pros, but and I will ever fight for free expression and independence our judgments from the subjective factors.