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Thursday, August 12, 2010
How the Fashion Industry Defines Us, But Does It Really?
It seems that the fashion industry has become more involved throughout the years as far as defining what class we are in. Different brands of different companies price their clothes at what class they want to wear them. The middle class apparel has always been trying to put a style that looks good to people so then they would buy it. Compared to upper class were the brand says everything. But then what happens when someone wears something that you are wearing? Then it seems one loses his/her identity because they are wearing what everyone else is wearing. This is how brands get old or out of style which has occured time to time again. For example round collars now turned into V necks which turned into tanks for guys and girls. Of course companies still sell all three types of shirts, but they are always thinking of new ideas for apparel because they know we will want something different in the future. So basically we define the industry not ourselves and there is no way of creating one.
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fashion can be seen as this. but it can also not be. I'll attempt to explain myself. There are people that can make unexpensive clothing look really cute and make it look more expensive then it really was. Those are people that can work with clothes. But yea I have also noticed the difference in midle and upper class. Some upper class tend to wear everything by brand and watever is in. Clothing also tends to change how we feel. If we wear something that we feel is cute we are happier throughout the day, on the other hand if we come in something we just found on the floor we are in our daily moods. Brands keep changing the style to keep people buying all the time. Thats why people have so much clothes in there closet, because more than half of it is stuff that used to be in style, that probably still fits we just dont wear it.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you guys talking about fashion? Tie this to the summer work.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think i can kind of tie this to the summer homework Mrs. Fletcher.
ReplyDeleteIt can kind of relate because in Postman's book he talks about technology and television can end up killing us because for example, if we watch too much t.v., we can become so lazy we wont want to move from the couch and we can just become so fat we die.
But this can kind of relate to fashion because we can end up become so engrosed in the way we look it can get to the point where some people will care so much about the way they look they won't want to leave their house because they wouldn't want anyone seeing them if they didn't look good.
So then that would lead to people not leaving their homes for a stupid reason and thus becoming somewhat lazy because they never leave the house.
I'm not quite sure if that really relates but i tried :]
Thank you, Heather. I appreciate that.
ReplyDeleteBut by that logic, I can apply Postman to Captain Crunch cereal or hailstorms or fear of flesh-eating bacteria. When we stretch it too thin, we risk "Trivializing Ourselves to Death."
Mrs.Fletcher you told me yourself that what I post on the blog doesn't neccessarily have to be about the book. You told me in a email after I asked this question that, "Yes. But when we start talking about media/culture/technology, the door blows wide open." Mrs.Fletcher this topic has very much to do with our culture and how the media potrays clothing styles. Please regard what you said earlier.
ReplyDelete"For example round collars now turned into V necks which turned into tanks for guys and girls. Of course companies still sell all three types of shirts, but they are always thinking of new ideas for apparel because they know we will want something different in the future. So basically we define the industry not ourselves and there is no way of creating one."
ReplyDeleteAmmon, you have a point that fashion is a part of culture, and of course I counted this as one of your posts. But please re-read what you wrote -- the above quoted portion in particular -- and consider its clarity as a statement and its depth of discussion. It is my responsibility as your teacher to guide you to a more thoughtful response. I've been nudging everyone on the blog, and offering correction here and there. When a statement is clear and cogent, you get no argument from me.