Fashion is what affect the mindset of today’s society, people care about how they look in others’ eyes without knowing it. It affects their everyday life as their minds are full of thoughts like “I wonder if I look proper and prime? Do they think I have no fashion sense? Am I too fat and people don’t want to be friends with me?”. Many people will judge a person based on their body image, it makes a person nervous and uneasy even if they don’t know it themselves.
“As you go through this week, be aware of the judgements you make about your body. Stop imaging you can be something you are not, and embrace and accept yourself exactly as you are. Notice and release the comparison s you make about yourself versus others. Feel comfortable in your own skin and see how it changes the way you approach the world.” ~Melissa Heisler (Contributor)
This quote from Melissa Heisler is a word of encouragement that was found on huffpost.com. She brief that one should not compare themselves with others, just accept the flaws and continue with life, then the world may seem different to them. People who wear similar things are compared and judged by the so called “friends” and things they say might not be so nice, but just accept the commentary and move on with life.
An example of this would be, when a girl is being compared to her sister and was claimed fat by the mom. This is a true story, the girl would not mind what the mom say but what she thinks is not what she say. In reality, a person is really affected by one’s words. A person’s words can hold a thousand knives, everyone need to think twice and sometimes thrice before speaking what’s on their mind.
It can be harmful words but one can twist it so that it would be nice on the ears, such as a scrawny girl can be told “You’re so skinny, you should eat more”. It would be pleasant to the ear as well as encourage oneself, this way no one would be hurt whether consciously or unconsciously.
Just focus on the part of self that is positive and do your best to make that negativity into positivity, one should feel fortunate on what they have and not dwell on what they don’t. Afterall, many others might just be thinking of what they don’t have and others have. When one get affected by what they don’t have, they don’t listen to others and continue believing they are incomplete. But the gifts and flaws together make an individuality, it makes a person special in their own view.
Not only their body shape and size, also their culture or religion sometimes get put in the spotlight. A certain new style or trend might start and not long after, there are stories of it being racist or abusive towards one culture or religion. Most times it is not intentional, the people just didn’t know that it would offend a certain culture. This kind of style or trend should be share with a tag saying “#notintendedforoffense”, since there is many culture in the world and no one knows who it might offend.
This kind of tag should be made intentionally for those who doesn’t know much about other culture, so that they won’t offend people mistakenly. It is kind of like an insurance to say that they don’t know and sorry if offensive, that way others would know that they didn’t know and not to take offense to this type of trend. Or if they want to say something, at least they would know the offense is not intentional.
Link to other resource websites:
How Fashion Industry Contribute to Body Image Problems
Body Image in Fashion World
Body Image of Women
fashion & social change 