What Your Fashion Says About You

By Author: Jamie Hanson
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The way you dress is a clear representation of what you want others to think of you, whether that is that you are a free spirit or a straight down the line square. Your appearance is one way that you assert yourself into the world, it will be the thing that everyone you know associates with you.

So what are you hoping to say about yourself? Do you want people to think that you are incredibly confident or that you have a fun quirky personality. Wearing bright colours obviously draws attention to the wearer much like wearing drab pale colours makes the wearer disappear in the crowd. We are sending out so many different messages with our appearance without even realising it.

Some people obviously dress to be provocative whether they are demonstrating that it is their right as a human being to dress in whatever way they deem appropriate or whether it is because they want people to look. It can't genuinely be said that if you dye your hair bright green and wear it in a 10 inch Mohawk that you are not trying to provoke in some way. What is seen as provocative has changed drastically over the last one hundred years and ...
... fashions have become more inclusive of a huge range of trends for both men and women.

Changing Attitudes

If you are a man who enjoys his suits, this is no mistake because they were designed to emphasize masculinity and the power of the masculine physique. The broad shoulders represent strength and show off the size of the male frame. Like the female dress shapes of the 1950's show off the female body shape that have become popular again today. A woman who wears a dress that pulls in at the waist is showing off her femininity by emphasizing her waist and chest, sending out a message of comfort and highlighted gender.

Fashion towards the two sexes has changed dramatically over the last 100 years with an increasing amount of clothes and fashions being unisex. Trousers being the most notable item that became an item for both men and women, the first women to wear this item of clothing was seen as shocking and controversial but now it is seen as a perfectly regular occurrence. Women are increasingly wearing more and more men's styles including shorts and the modern sports item the board short.

Surfer style clothing became popular in the 1970's when the sport really took off, it was mostly men who initially embraced the relaxed board shorts look with the women's fashion at the time being the end of the hippy trends and the start of glam rock disco era. However, as fashions progressed to the modern day items like boardshorts have been embraced by the female surfing community as much as by the male surfing community.

The surfer style suits many people and if you are wearing a pair of boardshorts and flip flops it is highly likely that people will make judgements about you being chilled out and outdoorsy.

Through clothes you can encourage people to see you in a particular way demonstrating the power of clothes and how people perceive each other.

When it's time to hit the beach or bar a pair of boardshortsshould be the first item of clothing you reach for!