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Why is it that everyone has decided to adopt the same style? Not even variations of a certain style, but the EXACT same style. Every girl is wearing an army green coat, scruffy hair, Vans and leggings. This is just ludicrous! Where has individualism gone? It’s as if a huge white van came around and uniformed everybody. It’s like everyone miraculously became part of a not-so-secret cult.

This is a free country, you can wear what you want, and you don’t have to follow the ridiculous fashions of our society. Yes, it is true that shops tend to sell every item that is currently ‘in fashion’ but you can mix it up. Liberate yourselves children! Get out of the vicious circle of awful dress codes and make your own style! Be an individual, be who you are! Unless you are one of those people who cannot find a style that ‘suits you’, then go see a therapist and boost your self-confidence. It’s mainly down to the lack of self-confidence that has caused our generation an inability to think for themselves. It’s a shame really because there is a potential for many creative choices in our society, but the absence of individuality really brings us down - hearing the odd few older people painting us all with the same brush, ‘they’re all hooligans,’ ‘can’t even dress themselves,’ well for your information I am perfectly fine dressing myself, thank you.
Conformity is a huge problem in our society and there are places where we need to really start making a difference in order to stand out in the crowd. Common thinking in fashion creates common thinking which then goes on to create a domino effect of everyone thinking the same, hence the country ending in this demeaning state.<dafuq!? Maybe it’s a little harsh to blame it all on fashion and it’s ceaseless fire of commoners, but it is the lack of individual thinking which creates such problem which then creates the ever growing problems.<which are?
There a million ways to stand out,<e.g? and through personal experience I have come to the conclusion <conclusion = repetitive word, fool! that what you wear may be the cherry on the cake when it comes to standing out. What you wear defines you, so dress how you feel, not how society dictates. Wake up and smell the linen because today may be the day, you break the trend!

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Why is it that everyone has decided to adopt the same style? Not even variations of a certain style, but the EXACT same style. Every girl is wearing an army green coat, scruffy hair, Vans and leggings. This is just ludicrous! Where has individualism gone? It’s as if a huge white van came around and uniformed everybody. It’s like everyone miraculously became part of a not-so-secret cult.

This is a free country, you can wear what you want, and you don’t have to follow the ridiculous fashions of our society. Yes, it is true that shops tend to sell every item that is currently ‘in fashion’ but you can mix it up. Liberate yourselves children! Get out of the vicious circle of awful dress codes and make your own style! Be an individual, be who you are! Unless you are one of those people who cannot find a style that ‘suits you’, then go see a therapist and boost your self-confidence. It’s mainly down to the lack of self-confidence that has caused our generation an inability to think for themselves. It’s a shame really because there is a potential for many creative choices in our society, but the absence of individuality really brings us down - hearing the odd few older people painting us all with the same brush, ‘they’re all hooligans,’ ‘can’t even dress themselves,’ well for your information I am perfectly fine dressing myself, thank you.
Conformity is a huge problem in our society and there are places where we need to really start making a difference in order to stand out in the crowd. If everyones dressing the same, its clear that they all have the pretty similar views on the almost everything as they have quite common-based thinking.
Maybe it’s a little harsh to blame it all on fashion and it’s ceaseless fire of commoners, but it is the lack of individual thinking which creates the problems we face today,; in the youth, in the government, maybe even the wrold!
There a million ways to stand out, and through personal experience I have come to the conclusion that what you wear may be the cherry on the cake when it comes to standing out. What you wear defines you, so dress how you feel, not how society dictates. Wake up and smell the linen because today may be the day, you break the trend!

my first anti-fashion article

Takeover of the Clones

Why is it that everyone has decided to adopt the same style? Not even variations of a certain style, but the EXACT same style. Every girl is wearing an army green coat, scruffy hair, Vans and leggings. This is just ludicrous! Where has individualism gone? It’s as if a huge white van came around and uniformed everybody. It’s like everyone miraculously became part of a not-so-secret cult.

 This is a free country, you can wear what you want, and you don’t have to follow the ridiculous fashions of today. Yes, it is true that shops tend to sell every item that it currently regarded to be ‘in fashion’ but you can mix it up. Liberate yourselves children! Get out of the vicious circle of awful dress codes and make your own style! Be an individual. Be who you are! Unless you are one of those people who cannot find a style that ‘suits you’, then go see a therapist and boost your self-confidence. It’s mainly down to the lack of self-confidence that our generation has and that they are at some points unable to think for themselves. It’s a shame really because there is a potential for many things in our generation but the absence of individuality really brings us down. You hear a few older people all painting us with the same brush, ‘they’re all hooligans,’ ‘can’t even dress themselves,’ well for your information I am perfectly fine dressing myself, thank you.

Conformity is a huge problem in our society and there are places where we need to really start making a difference and stepping out of the crowd. Common thinking in fashion creates common thinking which then goes on to create a domino effect of everyone thinking the same, hence the country ending in this demeaning state. Maybe it’s a little harsh to blame it all on fashion and its ceaseless fire of commoners, but it is the lack of individual thinking which creates such problem which then creates the ever growing problems.

There a million ways to stand out, and through personal experience I have come to the conclusion that what you wear may be the cherry on the cake when it comes to standing out. What you wear defines you, so dress how you feel, not how society dictates. Wake up and smell the linen because today may be the day, you break the trend!

After researching fashion journalism and realising that it isn't really my cup of tea, as witty and personal it may be at some points, it still comes back to the point that it has completely no purpose. What I have read so far has not been someones passion to work in the industry of fashion but to impress the person above them in the hierarchy.Yes, fair enough a lot of people may argue that they have a certain drive to work in a 'fast pace, exciting, colourful world,' with none-existent models, but from what I have seen, it doesn't reflect real journalism. It doesn't show what actual people do in the world of journalism, which is relay stories of some interest which make a difference to the world.
So, I have decided that I am going to research into anti-fashion journalism and how people generally go against the fashion industry and ridicule its existence, that seems to be more my style I think.

Research

Research on fashion journalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_journalism
-fashion writers, fashion critics, fashion reporters - all play different roles. If any, I would class myself as the fashion critic according to my latest article.
-there are also fashion bloggers who release their personal views on the fashions of the season and what goes well for example; http://www.secretdiaryofafashionjournalist.com/ - this particular 'fashion journalist' uses her website as a base to tell her readers about the clothing she has worn. It is quite an informal, personal style of writing as she addresses her readers in a colloquial manner and talks to them as if she were having a real conversation with them. She explains her outfits or the outfits she has purchased in detail and how she likes or dislikes aspects of the outfit and how it 'goes with' the situation she is in or the place she is a about to attend. The colloqiual style of the bolgs do strip it of the typical professionalism that one would expect in a high-end fashion magizine, as this is someones personla view on their own clothing that they have purchased and then accessorized. She uses informal, colloquial language, allowing the text to flow like a conversation between friends.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/28220
-this website gives tips on how to be a good fashion journalist; visualising what you are describing, being able to describe something just as a picture would, but doing it well enough that it doesn't sound like a childrens story. You need the ability to justify yourself and your views on something. You need the ability to be a ble to interview people and get their opinion andh their views on something, just like in real news stories that make an actual difference to the world.
-Depending on the class of the magizine and whether it is well-known or not, the stle of the writer may vary as with some bigger corporation fashion magizines, fashion is taken very seriously and things are done in a systematic manner. Yes, I'm taking exmaples from 'The Devil Wears Prada' but I think its relevant.
-write a piece on 'how to write for a fashion magizine'
-each wrtier has their own style, especially free-lance journalists who sell their stories to certain editors. It is said to practice and keep up with that style and not to let go of it as you would need a staple style to catch your readers interest. You have to have an eye for things and have an opinion which is worth while neough to be of any interest.
-not only Western fashion can be commented on, you can comment on the increasing fashions of the Eastern culture as well as the styling of the Hijab?
http://www.styleite.com/media/fashion-journalism/
-anohter article about fashion journalism. Quite an upbeat, informal way of explaining fashion journalism. It somehow relates some personal views on the area of journalism and how it seen by the people who write about fashion and those who don't. A personal account of a fashion jounralist and how she gained a career in fashion journalism. What I have seen so far in these articles is that they adopt a chatty, colloquial style for the readers to adopt and understand.
-write about the obsession with being size zero and what the actual healthy size is for women and men

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