Passion for Fashion

What is Fashion?

             Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, or furniture. It is a distinctive, however, often habitual trend in a look and dress up of a person, as well as to prevailing styles in behavior.

Well that is based from the dictionary, but if you ask me:

               Fashion is a way of expressing yourself by dressing differently or how the ambiance of your furniture is, in a way that you and the people like you truly understand. It does not have to be popular or worn by everybody; it’s on how you want to appear on others. It’s you and you’re unique!

              In the early times, as people were just starting to fill their hunger for knowledge and exploring the Philippines they didn’t have night gowns, shorts, dresses, or sleeveless shirts neither the Baro’t Saya. They only wore bahag (for men), some wore malong and putong over their head. They were also bare-footed.

            We can say that this kind of clothing is primitive and has been forgotten by many of us. But as we can see long before we were born, Filipinos were naturally artistic and creative. Some parts of the archipelago, like in the Cordillera Mountains are still using this kind of clothing.

           As time went by the Philippines was colonized by different countries like Spain. During this time the Spaniards made the Filipinos wear the Baro’t Saya.

The Baro’t Saya is the Philippines National Costume.
The national costume for men is the barong, which is worn over a Chinese collarless shirt called Camisa de Chino.

The national costume for women is the saya, which is a long wrap-around or tapis a knee-length wrap-around covering the lower half of the body with the bare upper torso. During this time we can say that the Filipinos were conservative and dressed in a way that they will be respected by others.

After Spain came the Americans.
They made the Philippines wear proper attire.

After the American Invasion the Filipinos started to create their own name in the world of fashion. But somehow we are still under the influence of our colonizers. Before we valued the image we portray to others. People especially women wore clothes that would cover the parts of their body that is not supposed to be seen, unlike what we often see today. Men, women, even little boys and girls wear clothes that are not appropriate for them. Thinking that this would make them look more mature or younger, and for some reasons to impress to impress other people.

               Now many Filipino wear different kinds of clothes, and some people find this weird because its uncanny or not like what they usually see. Some people wear clothes that they think suits their personality. They were all black, from top to bottom.Some wear loose clothes and others choose to wear nothing. I mean like almost nothing. Short shorts and sleeveless shirts. Like seriously, is this for real?

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Time flies so fast that people doesn’t realize that fashion just come and go. One moment it’s trending and in just a blink of an eye another style or way of dressing up arises. For others it may seem cool but to some it’s not. Some sees it as a way for them to be noticed, others just sees it as a way to discriminate you.

               Fashion is not about what dress you wear, what jewelry you have, or what style you possess. It’s on how you carry yourself in front of others and on how you present your personality. Ignore those people who choose to judge you rather than to accept you.

Do not dress to impress.
Dress to express!