Monday, September 28, 2009

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.” --Henry David Thoreau

Jakob Haferland

Fashion as a Religion – is this how far we’ve come? I think it’s true. We can find this phenomenon throughout society. We all are concerned, not just about what we wear but also about how we look and how other people look at us. The city is cluttered with fashion shops, hairdressers and gyms. All to improve our look, to change the way people look at us.

Isn’t that sad? Isn’t it pretty pathetic how we judge people because of what they wear and how they look, but everyone does it, even if he tries not to. 

So we make fools of ourselves as we follow every new trend, as we buy the latest fashion, or also things like the newest technical device or what the TV tells us is chic. And we’re just doing it to impress friends or under the sheer pressure to be accepted. Isn’t that ridiculous? Isn’t there more to life than just impressing others while we are lost inside?

But we keep going, trying to be part of the common public and making fun of everyone who is a little bit different, everyone who breaks this given frame – everyone who is free! We even laugh when we look back at people, how they were wearing out the old fashion trends. We laugh at people that are like us, just 20 years older. We laugh at a picture of ourselves!

 

2 comments:

  1. Loool !
    You are completely right Jakob sometimes we laugh at our pictures when we were young and we make fun of our clothes and our style.
    Like I always say, Don't judge a book by its cover.
    we must see the core of everyone and we must search inside him or her then we can decide is he or she good or bad.
    What you have written about is a very important point these days everyone should pay attention to it

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  2. Yes I also laughed at my fashion when I looked my photos which were taken several years ago! So probably I will laugh at my recent fashion several years later!
    But it is weird for me why fashion changes so quickly. It's mysterious!!haha

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