Fashion is a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, or body treatment. Someone who is fashionable is someone following the trend of style that is popular at a particular time.
Fashion itself is a reflection on social, economic, politics, education, ethnic and cultural changes, fashion brings out the inner beauty. It represent or symbolizes the spirit of time, what was in trend last year is old fashion this year. Fashion deals with time.
Everyone nurtures an intimate desire of looking good and feel comfortable and accepted in the economic and social circle. The word fashion whenever it comes to ones mind it brings flashes of color and glamour.
Fashion plays an important role in an individual life it is a medium of self expression, thought, actions, can be express through ones fashion sense. Fashion grows as the society is growing, the garments and accessories we put on can serve as an identity. It can be used to identify weather, class, religion, tribe, country, mood, attitude, circumstances surrounding a person, ceremonies etc. Fashions is synonymous to growth.
Series of events and factors can be attributed to the evolution or development of fashion. Most times the famous, rich, public figures tend to have high influence on the trend of fashion. The social media also is not left out in the trend in fact it is the major catalyze in the evolution of fashion.
Fashion helps to define who we are, where we come from, what we are doing, when there is a party going on for instance wedding ceremony, you don’t need to ask or be told of what is happening based on the mood of dressing. During Christmas season there is always shades if colors from what we wear, caps, shoes, decorations that will describe what is happening.
Taking Nigeria for example when it comes to fashion most people tends to dress with the sense of their tribe. When you see a Yoruba woman you will know by her “iro and buba”, when you see an Hausa man by his “buba and soro” same goes to other tribe. Fashion follows the saying of “aa you are dress so you will be address.
Fashion covers a wide range of clothing from ornate cloths designed for wedding ceremonies, fret lines, sports wear, causal wears, festivals, battles, occupations etc, what we wear differs also with season. Fashion for people it has changed over decades for both men and women.
Interpretation of fashion differs from country to country what is use for ceremony in a country can be a casual dress in another. Suit that is a casual dress with the westerner even people who do not own a suit in Nigeria (because is not our mode of culture) will definitely get one for a wedding ceremony.
People always follow trend whether they like it or not, fashion is one of the most followed trend ever even more than entertainment. There is nobody who doesn’t follow the trend of fashion be it old or new school. Following fashion trends is a huge part of our society, I personally follow trend of fashion all the time.