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In today's culture, we see headlines on the "fashionable" magazines telling us what's "in" these days. Women, men, teens and young adults purchase these magazines, maybe just to look at the pictures, to see what the ridiculous prices are, or to maybe take the modeled clothing and add them into their own wardrobe. Where are those magazines going wrong? They aren't telling you the truth about what's really fashionable. That truth, my dear, is: nothing screams fashionable more than one's own found identity.
Now I know what you're thinking . . . What does that even mean?!
What I'm trying to say, yet I can only scramble words together to try to depict it, is that someone in our world has to first wear an outfit in order for someone else to call it fashionable. This person has found their own identity, and threw on an outfit to display their identity. Who are these people who do that? They are the so called trendsetters.
But honestly, in today's culture, we're all capable of being trendsetters. How, you ask? Simple. "Fashion" is created when you put together something you have thought about, decided it fits your own personality, and that you had enough courage to wear. Let's stop wearing what others say is cool, stop wearing what the celebrities splurge on, and stop wearing clothes only to fit into a stereotype and genre of music. That's not fashionable, that's copycatting.
So you must discover who you want to be, who you can be, and who you will be. Once you wear your own identity, who really cares what you wear as long as it beats your own high standards (and of course that you're actually wearing something). That to me, ladies and gentlemen, makes someone fashionable.
Think I'm being ridiculous, and think that no one will ever do this or has ever done this? Well you're wrong. People who have found their own identities and who are wearing what they want can be found on http://lookbook.nu. It's a pretty cool site of people posting what they think is fashionable. Maybe you can take ideas from theirs' (not copy them exactly), and create something to fit your own identity.
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