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Fashion has been the one area we can express our inner most desires and
flamboyance without restrictions and or restrains in public.
This brings me to the main point of this article, whilst brunching with
a friend, he made the statement,
‘I don’t like what I see these
days, fashion has gone belly up, men have become the new women, I mean look,
wearing skinny jeans, skirts, extremely over the top tight shirts, pink wrist
bands as accessories…its just all wrong, there is a rule and its there for a
reason’
One’s fashion sense cannot be dictated and or controlled. If we move to era
of setting up control and restrains, who gets to say when, where and how?
I agree fashion is changing and the emerging trends we are seeing are
somewhat unique but that is the essence of fashion, it’s supposed to be daring,different, unique and challenge you to have an opinion.
What we are seeing today is no different to what happens in fashion
cycles every 5-10 years or so. It's what we look back on and group as decades.
Take the 80’s, it was bright colours, loud t shirts, disco nights, straight
perms and extremely large shoulder pads.
Those are no different to the skinny jeans, converse and DKNY dresses
(bricklane), leggings wearing, yoga pants hugging fads that we are seeing today.
As fashion goers and lovers we can only do our utmost to start trends we
look back on and say, yes, I was part of that, I did it and here’s my picture.
The reality is, no idea in this day and age are truly original, its what
you do with old ones that count, look at Facebook, think that was never done
before, think again.
Take the Cupcake t shirt we have at FunkyT, the response has been good. People
stop and ask, where is that from, how much is it, I like it, its different,
it’s a bit crazy, I like it but its not me, and that’s fine, as its all about
individual expression and freedom.
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| FunkyT Cupcake T shirt |
The beauty of fashion is that it has many shapes, styles and adaption of
what we deem is beautiful. It’s suppose to make heads turn, hit people, have a
lasting affect on someone and perhaps even at times cause a stir. But, the one
thing we cannot do is try to restrict fashion and control it. Yes I agree there
is a time and place for particulars to be a formality, i.e you wouldn’t wear
your mankini in Tesco (although you shouldn’t wear one period), but no matter
how outlandish it may be, there is always a time and a place to express fashion
and that cannot be and shouldn’t be controlled.
Cupcake T shirt available at www.funkyt.co.uk
