The groups who you are around helps develop
your fashion sense. When I was in high school I didn’t belong to any particular
group, I had my AP class friends, my dance friends, my musical friends, my
engineering friends and then my friends who accepted me through thick and thin.
With each different group I was in I had a different style, the only people who
truly saw me for who I was were my best friends. My style didn’t fit into just
one group because I was a part of so many different activities, my style evolved
around what I did. However, when I was with each different group my style
leaned towards everyone else’s style. I just wanted to fit in.
I was
the girl in high school that just wanted to get through school without really
being seen. I had a lot of friends but I didn’t have a clear fashion style, I
really didn’t know who I was. As embarrassing as it sounds I was more of a
follower then a leader. As a dancer and someone who did theater it was really
easily to blend in. Everyone wore the same outfits in dance and everything was choreographed
to be the same. In dance class you weren’t an outsider, everyone was there
because they had one similar interest. It was easy to fit in there. Doing theater everyone is supposed to act as a different person, I fit
in because I was able to act like someone I wasn’t and it was completely
accepted. Fashion was easy in theater; all of your outfits are picked out for
you and people even helped you change from one thing to another. It was like
fashion made easy.
When I with my engineering friends
my tom boy side came out. For many of my engineering classes I
was the only
girl and it was hard to fit in with the boys, I wasn’t one of them and that was
clearly seen. As much as I wanted to fit in it was impossible to and I grew to
be alright with that. Being the only girl certainly makes you become yourself
in a big hurry. I learned that people would accept me for who I was and not
just because I looked the part.
Ethical Questions:
1)
Do you think that the people you are around affect
your fashion style?
2)
Is fitting in with a group a way to shadow
yourself from everyone else?
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