Fashion Conformity & Rebel

Tim (Our lecturer) was talking about how fashion has a way for confirming and rebelling over the years. As an example, he used the classic suit. It, throughout history has been conforming, and signifying a certain stereotype. Common denotations associated with it are, power, structure, strong, crisp, which are all words that are also used to describe a man, but Marlene Dietrich was one those rebels who removed sexuality or body stereotyping and wore whatever she pleased. She was known as one of the first celebrity, who was extremely contradicted for what she wore. She chose to wear a suit to places where all women were expected to wear dresses and look pretty.

Suits these days is not only used a feminist voice without words as a general apparel but the texture, structure, colour etc also makes a big difference to the story thats being told. For example, one one hand, Burberry might make the stereotypical, monochrome, structured suit but on the other hand, Armani who sells the story of suits being used a smart casual outfit.

After listening to what Tim had to say, I came home and looked further into an items that is conformed to and rebelled against. What I found most interesting from my research was the evolution of Denim; especially how the everyday jean has evolved. Scroll through these pictures and let me what you think about the change in jeans over the years.