Most people
think Fashion
and Style as same content but they aren’t. The both terms
are always used but mostly used in a wrong context example; you have a great
fashion sense meanwhile it is style at work. I can be a fashionista and might
not be a guru when it comes to style. Fashion is brands and trends, style
is creativity, adding up two unlike colours, outfits etc to bring out what you
feel inside. Fashion is owned by everyone, style is owned by you. If you are
feeling moody its shows in the style you put up that day and not the fashion
brands or clothing lines.
Growing up with
fashion is so not favourable to all because most parents couldn’t afford
fashion, let’s say they were expensive, limited, and goes off the trend list in
a hurry, remember sometime 13years back in west Africa (Nigeria to be precise)a
children fashion trend came on board which is a dress that comes with a hat and
a hand bag, it was mostly worn for birthdays and festive seasons now its off
the trend list. It is called Fashion in that context because there was no
creativity, no emotion or feelings expressed instead it was a rule; you must
wear the hat with the dress for a complete match.
Today and then
style has being there, most parents didn’t have such luxury for that matching
outfit so they get the cloths they can afford and match it up together “now
that is style” we wore them and felt comfortable ;some jeans, gowns, shirts,
belts, shoes and stock they (parents) sum it all up and it gave the perfect
match. As a teen too, style was put to work funny it wasn’t kwon as style but
as fashion. The similarity of the both is that they are both affected by time.
90s fashion creates a picture of a group of people in an afro a skinny shirt
and trousers and some funny looking shoe; style from the 90s will be combining
outfits or colours that are available at that era to give a suiting look same
as now.
Style is an art,
fashion is a code…
written by Chidinma Chinda for Fashion Eaters Blog (formerlyFashion Got Mir)
