Thursday, December 5, 2013

Opinion Essay - Fashion should be followed or not

Reign Of Mr. Fashion
            Is popularity everything? In general, everyone wants to be popular.  Does not the quote “Tastes and interests are not to argue” mean anything ?  As to clothing, there a word appears : Fashion.  It does not necessarily mean that you have to take it into consideration, if there is a word called “Fashion”.  At this point, it is not reasonable to me to wear what is popular by ignoring individual tastes and interests.  Every individual has a unique taste and should not try to be like someone else rather that being himself.

            As to start, ignoring individual tastes and interests and wearing what Mr. Fashion dictates are some kinds of slavery of thoughts.  You do not have to follow the fashion.  You have your own thoughts and can decide on what is fashionable for yourself.  To illustrate, if everyone follows fashion and ignores themselves, what would happen?  A scene appears : Same colours and same styles are everywhere.  What a stereotypical scene is it?  It seems like The Army of The Reign of Mr. Fashion.

            As a continuing idea of prevailing paragraph, people lost their identities and self-esteem.  They try to be like other popular people and think that it is a good way to stand out in the society.  By following fashion, which murders their own tastes, they become fuzzy shades of a regular fashion-follower and lost their own identities.  While following fashion, people also tend not to share their own thoughts directly and damage their self-esteem.  At this point, they accept what is popular without any question and cannot realize themselves which leads to some characteristic corruptions in their later lives.
         
Opposingly, some people claim that the fashion must be followed by everyone to keep up with the pace  of life and stay up-to-date.  They also say that if there is no fashion, we cannot know what is fashionable or not.  The point they are mistaken is that they all confuse fashion with popularity.  Everyone can create one’s own fashion and that fashion do not have to be popular.  On the other side, popularity makes its place on people’s minds bigger day by day and occupy everything in life just like fashion.

            Consequently, We should not let the popularization invade our ethics, fashion does not necessarily have to be wide-spreadly accepted.  Every individual in each society has his own right to create a unique fashion of his.  Through this way, the diversity and the colourfulness in fashion make society better to live.

Taha YUMUSAKKAYA

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