Life in a modern community is far more controlled by fashion than many people realize; fashion is big business, invented by original designers and controlled and promoted by business crazy minds for profit. Moreover, it affects not only clothing, but almost every aspect of daily life from the kind of house we live in, to the kind of book we read and the way people think about us. And what is this mysterious thing called 'fashion' ? The best definition is that it is -the outward expression of a creative mind from mere paper to the material worn by us!
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When most people think of 'fashion', they think of clothing a women's clothes in particular, and it is true that the 'world of fashion' implies the latest 'model' from Paris, New York or London. Curiously enough, it was man in the old days who, like the male bird, dressed himself in 'fine feathers' -- not so much woman. Men where the ones to start it but as women got involved it seemed to be like they have become a part of something that was meant to be theirs . Today, women are so fashion crazy that even the most remote and primitive of them try to obtain Western clothing, shoes, etc ... while the wealthier ladies of more developed countries spend annually millions of pounds . These , the brands that both men and women urge to have ,are first produced in the famous fashion houses of Paris, New York, London and Rome.fThe prominent designers produce them according through their own ideas, and in doing so create new fashion trends which may or may not be popular. Stage two is the commercialization of successful models by large clothing firms which mass-produce them much more cheaply for the general market. and so, thousands of copies of a 'model' may appear in the chain stores some few weeks after the salon show. To be fashionable, women's clothes must have a certain 'look' which can be identified by other women, and therefore admired. It may be a raised or lower hem line, a low or high waist, a dress cut naturally off the shoulder, a certain range of colors or materials. The 'fashion-wise' woman recognized 'fashion' at once, and buys it, and this makes fashion big-business. To a lesser extent, men's clothes also vary according to fashion, but the conservatism of the average male is despair of the men's clothing trade.
But public taste in almost every feature of living is subject to change -- even the female figure must be one year thin and boyish, another year' curvaceous' to meet the dictates of the couturier, and men's clothing firms are, today, trying to sell the 'baggy look'.
But public taste in almost every feature of living is subject to change -- even the female figure must be one year thin and boyish, another year' curvaceous' to meet the dictates of the couturier, and men's clothing firms are, today, trying to sell the 'baggy look'.
