The art of Pretense
Pretentious:
Adjective: Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, clothes, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
Fashion is ambiguous at the best of times, at the worst, it is just a plain mess. The point is that anything goes as the borders blur and ‘fashion’ is no longer be called, ‘fashion’. It has to be art, right? Fashion implies that there is a trend which can be integrated into the main stream easily. But when did it become right for fashion to get away with anything it wants? I throw around the term ‘pretentious’ a lot but I reserve special rants for the fashion industry. For me, you cannot be individual in fashion. The world is too big with too many people for that. These days, not following any sort of trend is the only way to be individual.
Take for example ‘hipster’ fashion. It started off with someone taking a trend and then twisting it to make it their own. It could have been called individual for about one day. Then the high street caught on and it became a mass trend. It is pretentious because people think they are actually being unique. It also looks like you are trying to hard. On the other hand, we all fall victims to it at some point. Not everyone has a designer budget so the high street and vintage is the only other options. But of course vintage can no longer be seen as ‘individual’ anymore either as it has become fashionable as well with every other person you meet explaining ‘It’s vintage’.
So is there really nothing that you can do to express your individuality? I suggest giving off a great personality. Cliched but true, a smile is a hundred times more expressionate than a piece of clothing or a pair of shoes. And the way you talk and interact with people says more about a person’s individuality than any fashion choice.
Categorised as: Women's Fashion