Sunday 9 September 2012

Why do all teenagers dress the same?

Ok so a thought that crossed my mind this morning when I saw both a girl and a boy wearing the same Abercrombie T-Shirt on the same street .Why do all teenagers dress the same? Because of peer pressure to wear the same labels across their chest ? There are the Superdry's , Abercrombie and Jack Wills's but really they don't have their own real fashion identity. Lots of teens dress like their friends to be part of the gang perhaps or maybe they actually choose to look like that !

This is what I love about Topshop and shops that have individual quirkiness about them because they don't just say "Abercrombie" across the front ,instead it has a design that has to be thought about , what it means and who on earth would wear it.These designs have textures, different materials and layers compared to the plain cotton t-shirts from Abercrombie with one word written across it.

For example on random occasions I wear lemons on my head and people on the street give me strange looks but underneath my massive heart sunglasses I'm giving them stranger looks cause they all look the same , which I find a bit odd to be honest. Even in  the winter girls wear shorts.They wear shorts with tights and Uggs but seriously I really don't understand why people would wear SHORTS when its SNOWING outside !

People I admire for their dress sense look completely different to anyone else on the street.I admire people who lift my mood when I see their clothes or make me think 'that should be in an art gallery'. I like to look different and have an identity on the outside as well as the inside.

I think people of our generation should address this otherwise we might all end up wearing the same thing for the rest of our lives which would be wrong as well as weirdly strange.

I want to change the way people think about fashion , instead of a way to just be comfy or 'in' with the labels .I think we should think about fashion as a way to show your identity and your imagination. I am not saying we should all look like clowns but I really think that we should use our imaginations more as really we are going nowhere as apart from school, we text ,play games on the Internet , and socialise so much on the Internet our eyes are very likely to pop out !" And lets face it we have some wildly creative designers out there that influence many things but teenagers really aren't one of them unfortunately.

So slowly i think we should change the way teenagers think about fashion.Intead of  'in with the designers' creative, thought about designs that people look at and go wow where did you get that.

2 comments:

  1. I'm 17, I hate those Abercrombie and Fitch clothes, I only have one T-shirt, with Adidas on it and I use it for sports.
    I dress quite differently to my peers, and I've gotten quite a bit of flack for it, but also a lot of compliments, I dress for me, to express myself.

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