Neoqueenhoneybee writes:
Aaah, but what if your dress is an extension of your art, or creative mind? Would you categorize us as conformists or trivial? True individuality lies in the mind, so what if whatever it is you wear, do or create expresses that individualism? Now what if I felt froofy (yes, froofy) one day and decided to wear gothic loli (a fashion that started in Japan, but now is being picked up in America) but I see three other people walking around in 'loli' wear. Does that mean I have conformed?
I don't think it matters for those who are truly individualistic to even care about such things. (Perhaps it is annoying at times.) I say this as a response, whatever I feel like wearing on that day is that I will wear, regardless of anyone else's thoughts. ^^ ...As long as it is modest...
Here you go, enjoy.
A good series of thoughts! A true individual focused on creating an extension of their creativity through fashion is focused on, as I said in the previous post,
image. Image is one of those things that can go either way.
Some individuals - instead of utilizing image as an extension of who they really are or what they're doing - attempt to use image as a means of self-definition, to shock or provoke. A country artist, for example, isn't doing anything wrong when he decides to don western wear as he yodels his way up the charts. Nothing wrong with that, any more than there is with the individual who dresses in button-downs and khakis.
The freakburgers I mention in my previous post mostly dress like monsters in an attempt to stress individualism as an extension of their angst-ridden teenage years. Who they really are - people who'lll end up wearing ties and suit pants to work in a few years, their obnoxious eyebrow piercings long having closed - isn't the point when they get dressed; attempting to
look different in hopes of stressing some difference between themselves and the mainstream is the point.
And the Goth/Punk movement is in no way similar to the counry culture I used as an example above. Cowboy hats, blue jeans, etc. developed as by-product of a cultural movement; creating an image wasn't ever the goal. These clothes become an
extension of something that exists outside of fashion. But with these self-proclaimed Goths,
image and dress is everything. One can be "country" without wearing a pair of shitkickers, but one can't be "Goth" without looking the image.
Nihil ex Nihilo · Tue Aug 16, 2005 @ 09:36pm · 1 Comments
