FASHION TODAY

Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup and body piercing, says Tsepo Massina, a fashion designer student at Midrand Graduate Institute. She added that it is a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style with which a person dresses, as well as to prevailing styles in behaviour.

Fashion today is not just the clothes but also the accessories too. Clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery and Beauty products all constitute today's Fashion trends. As far as clothes are concerned, Fashion is based on fabric, colour and cuts. Fashion trends change according to the season. For instance, during summers the common colours worn are the pastel shades and lighter fabric. Come winter and the preferred colour ranges are the darker and brighter ones and the fabric is heavier therefore Fashion today depends on the time

Fashion today is also basically pulling from the past to create your own look. "Vintage" is usually thought of as older looking clothes but today it really means from any era in the past. Bright colours are worn a lot. The number 1 rule of thumb in fashion today is simple: buy things that fit. Not too tight and not too baggy. When you wear clothes that fit, you are bound to look, at the least, decent. Nothing too wild and you'll be great!

These days anything could be fashion, people come up with ideas on their own to create fashion suitable for their desire. People are so obsessed with fashion that most clothes become similar. In her article, “what women wear” Laura cox emphasised that modern women dress badly, because following fashion makes them all look the same. She added that people are too concerned about what’s fashionable. Women have such boring wardrobes these days because they must follow fashion, she says, they must, and they must. But sometimes it’s about saying, oh, this would work well with that.

 It is difficult to know what to wear now, because people dress in similar ways these days. Today everybody wants to look good but it all depends on what you believe is fashion for you; the main thing is, wearing something that makes you comfortable.