Fashion Trends: Change with Time

If anything is unpredictable today, it is fashion. It is said that you cannot dip your finger twice in the same river. It highlights the law of changing and fluctuating. Fashions are no exemption to this law. They come and go and change swiftly with the spirit of times. Fashions come into trend and then go out because man loves change, variety and freshness. Old, routine, stereotyped, old and typecast things are not to his liking. Change and variety is the other name of fashion.  Fashions are infectious as well and spread rapidly like wildfire, especially among young men and women in big towns and cities. Youth is more fashion-conscious because they represent life in terms of energy, courage, expectations, potentialities, and power. They want to look smart, up- to-date, charming and fresh in their dress, styles of shoes, and hair-do, etc. They want to enjoy every moment of life and are full of infinite passion and appetite for it.

Fashions can also be ill-treated as well and become harmful when turned into an obsession. Then they mean waste of time, energy, and money. It is better to be a little out of fashion than to be in fashion at the cost of one’s ethics and maturity. Then there are hotels, restaurants, cinema halls, colleges, universities, schools, and offices, etc. where people see different styles and fashions and then try to imitate or to improve upon the existing ones.

The people in villages, rural areas and remote places remain untouched by the influence of fashion, both, because of lack of means of communication and poverty. But to some extent, they too are affected by new fashions, designs, patterns and way of living and as the process is slow and steady, it takes time for a fashion to reach the villages from the cities through films etc.

Fashion-awareness is a healthy sign as it appeals and pleases people, promotes togetherness, social interaction and enlivens the environment. It is misconceived to link fashion with immorality. But it would be certainly foolish to spend extravagantly on the latest fads and to run after them at the expense of valuable time, energy and resources. It is good to be fashionable but it is better to be simple and dignified because simplicity with dignity is the best and evergreen fashion.