Since
when did everyone get so obsessed with fashion? I know I shouldn’t be the one
asking this considering I chose my current job mainly because I don’t wanna
wear a uniform and second, can’t pass out on the free clothes.
Whatever
happened to the good old simple days when we used to wear the same things? A
clean pair of flip flops and a nice fit jeans, they used to be trendy, they
used to be the thing. I don’t even have the slightest idea how it got replaced
by chunky shoes, boots, wedges and skirts (with all its kind). When did our
country, made up of 7,107 islands started to become aware of fashion? Should I
blame it on technology? Whoever the fuck started the #ootd hashtag surely made
it trend globally and magically, a lot of our citizens own gadgets that let’s
us find and view this 4 lettered hashtag.
You
know what’s disturbing about this whole fashion thing is when you see 13 year
olds buying tower high shoes that I can’t even afford to see my feet wearing
(coz it obviously screams torture even if it gives your legs a more slender
look) and I always wonder where they’re going to wear it. Funny, coz I see them
wear it in malls. Should we also blame society on this one? Have we become so
obsessed with looking good on the outside regardless of the occasion that we managed to
fuck up this generation and turn them into young fashion wannabes? Coz as they
say, what kids see adults do they do it too. Is today’s generation a mirror of
what we have become? And should I really
be blaming fashion for these preposterous thoughts that I’ve come up with while
I was fumigating in the shower?
But
you see it’s not really just 13 year olds bugging me about fashion, also women
around my age. This society had gone up from boring and simple to spontaneous
and obnoxious. When did these women come up with the idea that the world is our
runway and that the best revenge is to look good and fabulous just in case you
run into your worst enemy? Are we being so into fashion because we want to show
other people how better we are than someone else? Isn’t that a little too
self-centered? Selfish? Bitchy? And lastly plain pathetic! Why did fashion
suddenly turn to a competition? Ok so here’s an example. I know this girl who claims to be a “fashionista” who from time to time passes by the store,
strutting whatever it is she’s wearing and trying to rub it in my face how good
she thinks she looks. She does this to try to bruise my ego when all she really
does is increase the build up of turmoil I’m feeling inside me because all I
see is just a wannabe. I know I’m being all judgmental and shit but I can’t
help it, I’m sick of all these people being so obsessed with fashion and trying
to be so knowledgeable about it.
I
mean, why has this country become so into fashion that sometimes they lose a
part of themselves slowly without even realizing it? Have we become so obsessed
with dressing up that we haven’t noticed how little by little we strip off a
part of our selves, as we get lost into it? I’m not gonna come clean on this
one because I’ve been a part of this obsession too and is still on the
recovering part. I’m not even sure if there’s a cure but, one thing I’m sure
about, I’ve been wearing a lot of me lately and I feel just as fabulous as how
I used to be.
So let me end my blog post by stating this...
Style will always win over fashion!
(If you seriously don't know the difference between the two, honey, you are a wannabe!)
-Nel
