A question of taste. Fashion.

Fashion is something we deal with
everyday. Even people, who say they don’t care what they wear, choose clothes
every morning that say a lot about them and how they feel that day.

What influences our choice of
clothes is an interesting question. I believe that most of the people do not
follow the fashion displayed on the catwalk. That kind of clothes is the
product of famous high-class designers’ work, it is more often very extravagant
and extremely expensive. It is also not designed to be worn every day, but it
is suitable some special occasions.

However, we definitely get fashion
ideas from music clips, videos, books and television. Movies also have a big
impact on what people wear. For example it is known that more sunglasses were
sold in America after the movie Man In Black. Sometimes a trend is world-wide.
Back in the 50-s teenagers everywhere dressed like Elvis Presley.

Musicians and other cultural icons
as well as political and royal figures have always influenced what we are
wearing. Newspapers and magazines reported on what Hillary Clinton was wearing
when she was the 1st lady. The death of Princess Diana was a severe blow to the
high fashion world, where her clothes were daily news.

Depending on their attitude towards
clothes and fashion, people can be divided in three groups:

fashion slaves, spending all their
money on the latest clothes even if they don’t look good in them;

fashion fans, who enjoy wearing
modern clothes but not obsessed by them and people who just don’t care how they
look.

Personally I place myself between
fashion fans and people who don’t care how they look. Although I enjoy shopping
very much and like to try things on, especially when I look good in them, I
don’t spend much time choosing and buying clothes. And of course I do it only
when I really need something new to wear, and not in order to kill time.

My style and the range of clothes
that I have are defined by the activities I engage in. Work occupies most of my
time and therefore most of the clothes that I have corresponds with the dress
code, registered in the policy of our company. According to the dress code, an
employee is not allowed to wear certain items of clothing to work. For example,
men are supposed to wear ties and business suits, and nobody is allowed to wear
jeans, except on Fridays. Women’s clothes are not supposed to be skin-tight,
too short and too open. All of the shirts are supposed to have collars. Clothes
also can’t be too bright, the colors should correspond to the corporate colors
– dark blue and white.