Fashion has a long history of trials and errors. What was considered fashionable a few decades back might be synonymous to killing fashion in modern times! The era, beliefs held by the people living in it, and the culture in that era and in that region plays a considerable role in influencing its fashion trends.People adopt a trend in clothing only if it is in accordance with the culture of that area. You may hardly find Muslim women clad in mini skirts in Qatar or American women in burqas. Ancient Egyptian fashion was largely influenced by its culture in ancient times. Australian millinery is also inspired by its flora and fauna. Associating its scenic and natural beauty with everything (including fashion) has remained a part of the culture of this country. Bhutanese are required to wear their traditional outfits in public places. Culture in a specific region changes with time; fashion trends also get influenced with the changing culture in that particular area. People generally pick up fashion trends from media. Otherwise, they may notice what their friends are wearing and try to adopt the style in their lives, as well.
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M. Constantine de Volney, Travels through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783-1785 (London: 1787), p. 80-83. “When I visited the Sphinx, I could not help thinking that the figure of that monster furnished the true solution to the enigma (of how the modern Egyptians came to have their “mulatto’ appearance) (It’s features) were those of the Negro. The Egyptians therefore must have been real Negroes, of the same species of the natives of Africa. How are we astonished when we reflect that to the race of Negroes, at present our slaves, and the objects of our extreme contempt, we owe our arts, sciences, and even the very use of speech; and when we recollect that in the midst of those nations who call themselves the friends of liberty and humanity, the most barbarous of slaveries is justified, and that it is even a problem whether the understanding of Negroes be of the same species with that of white men! In other words the ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same stock as all the autochthonous peoples of Africa and from the datum one sees how their race, after some centuries of mixing with the blood of Romans and Greeks, must have lost the full blackness of its original colour but retained the impress of its original mould.” |
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Emma Goldman (1869 –1940) Born into the Jewish community of what is now Kaunas, Lithuania (it was part of the Russian Empire back then), Emma Goldman immigrated to the United States when she was sixteen. There, she gained notoriety as a feminist, anarchist, pacifist, and anti-capitalist. She was a supporter of gay rights, almost unheard of for the time period. She ran her own magazine and went on speaking tours in between her multiple stays in jail.
In 1919, she was deported back to her homeland - which had gone through revolution in the interim, and was now the USSR. Emma was initially approving of the new communist government, but soon found herself disillusioned. She married a Scottish anarchist in order to gain British citizenship and find a way back to the west, where she continued to make herself unpopular by speaking out against the growing enmity against Nazi Germany. According to Emma Goldman, Britain, France, and the United States were no better than the Nazis - they were all Fascists in disguise.
But nothing fazed Emma Goldman: “The more opposition I encountered, the more I was in my element.” |
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“Fashion...is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
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All day today,
And will carry on flowing beautifully all day tomorrow.
The point is that natural beauty never fades." - Urbana Escalonada
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