Your style has past the sell-by-date!

Keeping up with the joneses is a tough call.

It seems if you are not wearing the ‘latest’ or the ‘in thing’ you not ‘with it’.

Today was very interesting in a sense that only much older people appreciated m dress sense. The younger generation laughed at me and someone even said I look ridiculous. I also was told that I look like Merry Poppins or some very old lady. What if this was how I really dressed?  What if this was not a project…

It shows how society has placed everything into boxes. Including people, telling us what to wear and how to look with an age tag attached to it.

“Dress forms part of the micro-social spaces and when we dress we have to orientate ourselves to the implicit norms of these spaces: is there a code of dress we have to abide by? Who are we likely to meet? What activities are we likely to perform? How visible do we want to be? (Do we want to stand out in the crowd or blend in?) and so on. We may not always be aware of all these issues consciously; indeed only some circumstances, such as formal situations, demand a high degree of body/dress consciousness. However, even when not attending to these issues consciously, we internalize particular rules or norms of dress which we routinely employ unconsciously.” (Entwistle, 2000; 34)