This year, horizontal stripes are in.
Fashion seems a rather ridiculous phenomenon to me.
I can understand that before liberation, which frees one to be oneself, there can be a psychological need to be part of a group, to feel the security of being amongst the herd. From that, it follows that a uniform can help define the herd, the tribe. So, I should not be surprised if people like to wear similar clothing.
What is more strange is that the uniform is always changing. This year’s fashion is not the same as last year’s. Of course, there are excellent commercial reasons for everybody having to buy a new set of clothes every season. The clothing industry would be a fraction of its current size if the uniform were not subject to the changeability of fashion.
Why do we fall for the industry led requirement to change our clothes? Perhaps we are also looking for a newness; getting bored and feeling stale if things don’t change. We can feel reborn every season, merely by donning a fresh raiment.
And it’s so much easier to change the superficial facade of our clothing than to change anything deeper in our being...
