Is it possible to be fashionable while wearing clothes from the current season?
It seems like a stupid question, because what kind of clothes we are wearing in a given season if not the clothes from this season, but after watching the ending fashion weeks, I came to the conclusion that dressing in the current season’s clothes makes you a loser, predisposed only to the world of high fashion.
If we look at front rows, we will see that celebrities are already dressed in garments from the new collection, just presented on the catwalk. The same is with fashion bloggers, who are always at least one season ahead of us, ordinary customers who want to spend their hard-earned money on the „It – bag” that is a “must have” this season. Well, we’re stuck as this race will never end! What’s worse, it can make us develop a real neurosis!
At my lawyer’s work, it is essential to have a well-tailored black suit, no one judges whether it is from the current or the upcoming collection. The classic and dark color does everything. But the things get really dicey when I want to meet fashion people or have lunch with an editor-in-chief or what is the worst to attend a fashion show. In panic, I storm through my wardrobe, eventually deciding on black jeans and black turtleneck, which is the only safe option that I know will protect me from being judged. So perhaps it’s better not to meet people from the fashion world if they stress me so much? But what if I simply like them? Is this clothing madness triggered by Instagram or too much E television? Maybe the fashion people like me just the way I am, and for them is doesn’t matter how I look? For them, fashion is the same job as law for me, so my attorney’s suit is for them the same as the clothes from the latest collections?
Could it be the case that because all media are torpedoing me with new fashion trends, I feel like I had better pack my past season clothes and throw them into a cavernous wardrobe forever?
Why do we let ourselves be manipulated so that we still want new things? Why do we assume that what we already have is imperfect and tedious? Have you ever wondered what the psychology students at the marketing department are learning? Yes, that’s what they learn, how to force us to want new stuff that we did not need just a minute before watching the last ad. They are masters of manipulation and will be as long that we do not ask ourselves – will a new couple of Louboutin make my life better, do I buy it because I’m sad, doesn’t my husband love me and will my friends envy me? It is well known that during a process of buying, we escape a little from what is in us, the purchase of a new thing works on us like an injection of endorphins. Why, however, does it keep our mood at a high level so short?
Bying a new fashion item doesn’t spare us from being overwhelmed with life. So how about starting to enjoy it the way it is here and now? I am not talking about asceticism and giving up shopping at all.
So how is it with fashion weeks? Why the brands’ owners make a huge show twice a year, inviting thousands of celebrities and build spectacular scenography for these shows? All this so that we could feel, that with the help of new shoes or handbag we will become part of the high fashion world, to which we continuously tend to contribute with a new purchase every season.
But as you can realize by observing the front rows of a fashion show, a regular fashion-conscious client will always be doomed even wearing the latest dress bought at Harrods. This piece of clothing will be a season behind what’s worn by the celebrities and fashion bloggers during the show. So why play this game if you can never win it?
If we look at front rows, we will see that celebrities are already dressed in garments from the new collection, just presented on the catwalk. The same is with fashion bloggers, who are always at least one season ahead of us, ordinary customers who want to spend their hard-earned money on the „It – bag” that is a “must have” this season. Well, we’re stuck as this race will never end! What’s worse, it can make us develop a real neurosis!
At my lawyer’s work, it is essential to have a well-tailored black suit, no one judges whether it is from the current or the upcoming collection. The classic and dark color does everything. But the things get really dicey when I want to meet fashion people or have lunch with an editor-in-chief or what is the worst to attend a fashion show. In panic, I storm through my wardrobe, eventually deciding on black jeans and black turtleneck, which is the only safe option that I know will protect me from being judged. So perhaps it’s better not to meet people from the fashion world if they stress me so much? But what if I simply like them? Is this clothing madness triggered by Instagram or too much E television? Maybe the fashion people like me just the way I am, and for them is doesn’t matter how I look? For them, fashion is the same job as law for me, so my attorney’s suit is for them the same as the clothes from the latest collections?
Could it be the case that because all media are torpedoing me with new fashion trends, I feel like I had better pack my past season clothes and throw them into a cavernous wardrobe forever?
Why do we let ourselves be manipulated so that we still want new things? Why do we assume that what we already have is imperfect and tedious? Have you ever wondered what the psychology students at the marketing department are learning? Yes, that’s what they learn, how to force us to want new stuff that we did not need just a minute before watching the last ad. They are masters of manipulation and will be as long that we do not ask ourselves – will a new couple of Louboutin make my life better, do I buy it because I’m sad, doesn’t my husband love me and will my friends envy me? It is well known that during a process of buying, we escape a little from what is in us, the purchase of a new thing works on us like an injection of endorphins. Why, however, does it keep our mood at a high level so short?
Bying a new fashion item doesn’t spare us from being overwhelmed with life. So how about starting to enjoy it the way it is here and now? I am not talking about asceticism and giving up shopping at all.
So how is it with fashion weeks? Why the brands’ owners make a huge show twice a year, inviting thousands of celebrities and build spectacular scenography for these shows? All this so that we could feel, that with the help of new shoes or handbag we will become part of the high fashion world, to which we continuously tend to contribute with a new purchase every season.
But as you can realize by observing the front rows of a fashion show, a regular fashion-conscious client will always be doomed even wearing the latest dress bought at Harrods. This piece of clothing will be a season behind what’s worn by the celebrities and fashion bloggers during the show. So why play this game if you can never win it?
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