How does fashion make us feel?

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        Fashion can convey how we feel about ourselves through style and the way we dress. It can also connect us to our own identities. Many speculations lead us to believe that beauty and popularity are embraced through fashion and the clothing we wear. These lies are promoted in fashion through the media, icons, and social environment.

         There are many speculations that lead us to believe a certain style or fashion will make us beautiful and/or popular. This mindset is the result of the media through propaganda. Clothing advertisements are seen everywhere through television, magazines, and billboard signs showing beautiful young models wearing the latest fashions.  

“ . . . contemporary fashion magazines are part of an extensive disciplinary apparatus which promotes unreal beauty norms, producing widespread anxiety and alienation among women.”

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Of course, we want to look just as beautiful, so we visit the nearest store and purchase the newest styles.  However the results are not always the same.  Also the fashion industry leads us to believe we are involved in this decision process, but really we are just followers of what clothing is provided in the stores and displayed in these advertisements.  For example, Camouflage clothing is a new popular style, but if we choose to wear this type of clothing are we implicating that we are supporting the war? We may think we are involved in fashion, but ...

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