The Importance Of Fashion Style

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English 101
Tamara Stojković
Student ID: 20160023
24/10/2016

You are what you wear (fashion style) As Miuccia Prada said: "What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language "(Lindig, 2014). People can be judged based on the clothes they wear. Clothes reveal more about us than we think, all our fears that we kept as the secret, our wishes and spending habits. Clinical psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner claims that choosing clothes and behavior come from internal motivations such as emotions, experience, and culture. Moreover, there are five different personality types based on people's choices of clothing (Forbes.com, 2016). People who wear provocative clothes seek desperately attention. Also, this alone makes them feel more powerful as well as more confident and "secure" for themselves. To be more precise, in Serbia, more and more of the young population is becoming obsessed with this type of individuals. They are trying to present themselves in the way, which is becoming really popular in today's society. This is the problem of every country, not …show more content…

In the book "You are what you wear: what your clothes reveal about you", author Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner mentions that people are using logos and designers as a sign in order for others to know where they are socially ranked and also is a form of belittling those who are not in the same category as them (Forbes.com, 2016). This type of a person is also really common nowadays. More and more people are trying to hide and to present themselves in the brightest light, so other can be jealous. According to Yves Saint Laurent: "We must never confuse elegance with snobbery" (Lindig, 2014). Putting logos does not put people in a higher position or make them wealthier, it just says a lot about their

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