Why do some people despise fashion and hate trends?

Surely you have met people who deliberately dress in the same thing for years. And it’s not even that they don’t have the opportunity to buy new fashionable jeans or a trench coat. Such a person deliberately ignores any trends and prefers to dress in what is at hand. And if you ask why, in response something like: “Oh, that’s annoying”.

Why is it annoying? Don't you want others to look and admire your “tastefully” put together ensemble, skillfully selected accessories, branded bag and shoes? As it turns out, no! There are people who are annoyed by following fashion, they despise the pursuit of stylish items from leading brands and laugh at the high-waisted jeans and rolled-up pants.

Background: why did I think about this?

I have a wonderful friend Lisa. She is tall, slender, beautiful, smart. There are no special problems with money - she has a good job, a large apartment, which her grandmother left her as an inheritance.Lisa could regularly fly on vacation to some islands, relax in a club or restaurant and, most importantly, wear branded clothes and shoes. A she does not care!

How many times have I invited her to go shopping, but even sales don’t attract my friend. Are your tights torn? Buys at the local supermarket along with food. Got a hole in your jacket? Okay, let's go to the nearest clothing store and buy something gray, dark blue, black, straight silhouette with a hood (this is the main thing, otherwise how will I hide from the rain?).

The scarf is only warm in winter, only jeans, no jewelry except tiny gold earrings. The makeup is the most inconspicuous, the shoes are ordinary classic, the bag is a simple “patch”. And everything seems to be in order, but my soul is always eager to see something fashionable and stylish, and this infuriates Lisa. She hates it all. Speaks contemptuously about some fashionable gestures, features, and will never buy something branded and beautiful for herself.

And at the same time she has an excellent sense of humor. We talked about this often. She herself cannot explain this phenomenon of “denial of fashion trends.” But together we “gave birth” to some reasons...

My attitude to fashion

I do not belong to this category of people. I don't mind wearing a long plaid skirt and a short leather jacket, and spicing it up with a bright pashmina scarf is a nice touch for me. But I won’t wear jeans with cuffs either, and a crop top above the navel is a no-no for me. Well, at least because I’m already, so to speak, “middle-aged” and my figure doesn’t allow it. And so... who knows...

In addition, many branded items are not available to me, since I just can't afford it. And if I could afford to buy sneakers from Adidas, I would definitely buy them. They are beautiful and will actually last much longer than any replicas.

Why does my tall, slender friend dress only in the way that suits her? Well We are women, it is in our blood to attract attention with the help of clothes! Is not it? I don’t argue with her, I don’t impose my opinion, I don’t convince her. But I'm trying to understand...

Reasons for rejecting fashion trends

If we think about it, there may be several of them.

Fashion dictation

To humanity indeed a lot of force is imposed. So much so that it is “imprinted” into the brain and works on the subconscious. Mascara? Only the fashionable one from Maybelline is the one that fluffs and lengthens at the same time, “opens the eyes” and so on and so forth. Meanwhile, Belarusian “Fluffy eyelashes” are a hundred times cooler and cost 200 rubles, and not 100,500.

Or boyfriend jeans. Definitely with scuffs and holes, with rolled up legs and a coolly designed top. I’ll throw the usual classic ones far away on the shelf, because wearing them means not respecting yourself, it’s embarrassing.

So, similar “fashion dictatorship” drives some people crazy. My friend Lisa says this: “Why should I listen to these people? Why do you have to wear some kind of skinnies that stretch and fit everywhere? Or are ripped jeans a stupidity imposed by fashion? Why should I conform to the ideas of some Lagerfeld with a ponytail and leather pants? I am me, not my clothes!»

I want to stand out

There lives a beauty, for example, Violetta. She earns a little, but she must dress fashionably and brand new, because only in this case she will not be looked at askance in the company of friends and at work. «Meet by your clothes, and see off by your mind“, - everything is correct, but for some reason clothes are constantly assessed, but intelligence is rarely assessed.

But Violetta doesn’t think about it. She goes to a fashion store after every paycheck, spends more than half on a bag for eight thousand, a new skirt for five and a branded T-shirt for seven. And then he lives for the whole month “on bread and water,” but no one knows about this, right?? What could be worse than being considered a beggar? And in company you can tell that you treat yourself to lobster martinis every night...

That is, the whole point of fashion imposed on us is window dressing, playing on other people and assessing them.

Someone correctly said: “We focus too much on things that need to impress people we don't even know." Lisa tells me: “You know me? You know. You don't care what I'm wearing, do you? Of course it doesn't matter. So why would I impress someone I don't know?»

The magic of consumerism

I will never forget the hysteria over the release of the tenth iPhone. People lined up overnight to buy a smartphone for 100,000 rubles on credit. For what? Who needs it? To put a cool phone on the table when meeting friends or a girl in a cafe? That's all? (My friend Lisa laughs out loud).

It's the same with clothes. You must definitely buy new things every month, otherwise society will look at you as a beggar. In fact, world leaders of brand consumption have already tamed adherents to their needs and feed them their own inventions through advertising and promotions.

«Want Want want!“- this itchy mosquito has been living in my head for a long time.Even if you have five bags, you still need a sixth! If you have a tracksuit for jogging, you also need it for fitness and going to the forest for barbecue! And more jeans, new ones for every occasion!

Guys, this is consumerism! A parasite that makes you degrade and look at things as a dream, while a dream is something completely different! Aw!

It’s good that Lisa understands this very well; she gets “infuriated” when a glamorous “lady” in a store buys herself another pair of shoes to go with a new dress.

“So what of this? — you say, “everyone does it!”

But it turns out that not all of them. Like attracts like, and Lisa and I are friends they don’t look at “clothes”, we are interested in spending time, communicating, proving something to each other and respecting every opinion. We don't have to curry favor with society, gain favor and approval for a tag on the butt of our jeans.

I will also improve. It's good when you have someone who has a positive influence on you.

What about you? "We had a great time, listened to cool music in cool clothes and once again discussed how crazy we all are!“—that’s not the case with you, I hope?

Let's exorcise this demon. It’s not for nothing that they say that the devil wears Prada.