Fashions may be defined as way of
living, decorating, etc., which are popular today, which are popular
today, but which would soon lose their popularity. It is something
passing and transitory, a mere craze of the moment to be looked down
upon with contempt. For example, tight pants are the fashion today, but
only a short while ago broad loose pants were the order of the day. If
today a man appears in society wearing broad pants, he would be held up
to ridicule, but only a few years ago they were the height of fashion,
symbols of good taste and culture.
Fashion is a tyrant; no tyrant is
greater than that of fashion. Everyone tries to imitate the latest
fashions. The youth specially are mad after it. They would not mind any
expenditure to be in fashion. They must have their clothes cut
according to the latest vogue, their hair made up according to the
latest style, even if this places a heavy burden on their parents. Many
of them realize that a particular fashion would soon pass away; even
then they waste their money over it. Costly articles of dress are often
discarded, only because the fashion has passed away. Girls, specially
educated ones, are the worst sinners in this respect. They are crazy
after Sarees of the latest prints, ornaments of the latest designs, and
other beauty aids which many happen to be popular at a particular
time. Often, the entire family has to suffer owing to their craze for
fashion. Many family discords and quarrels may be traced to this tyrant.
Such is the tyranny of fashion that the
fashion-drunk do not even care for their personal convenience. Popular
articles of dress are often worn even if they make bodily movement
difficult, and put the wearer to great hardship. Girls wear tight
clothes, as tight as possible, even though the dress is entirely
inconvenient. They are not move about in comfort, or to attend to their
house-hold work, but still tight dresses are worn because others also
use them. They do not even care for modesty and decency in their craze
for fashion. Similar is the case with young men; they continue to wear
tight pants, even though they freely acknowledge that their dress is
highly inconvenient for them. Fashion is a tyrant which exacts strict
adherence to its orders from its slaves.
The fashion - loving do not care-even
for their time. They have no sense of its value. Fashionable young men
and women waste much of their time daily in make-up and dressing up.
Modern girl’s waste hours in applying lipstick, rouge powder and beauty
aids. They must do that hair according to the latest style, however
ridiculous it may be. They would go to bed with their hair well oiled so
that there may be no need of oil the next day and they may go out with
their hair dry, according to fashion. Studies may suffer, but who
cares for it? Similarly, the fashion crazy young men west there
precious time in the pursuit of fashion they take hours over their hair
and the toilet which follows. They carry their pocket-combs to their
class-rooms and comb their hair even in the course of a lecture. They
attended more to their toilets, that to the lecture. Other students may
be disturbed, even the attentions of their teacher may be diverted,
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