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Clones, they're everywhere!
I'm always perplexed with today's fashion. Not that it interests me in the slightest. But I've always wondered why people make some of the purchases they do. Why do people always buy the same styles of clothing?
I bought a leather jacket and classic black converse last year for the new year. I've always loved leather, my dad would put me in his old black jacket when I was small. I figured it was time to invest in my own jacket instead of just stealing his.
The jacket I chose was gray and fitted. On sale at "Le Chateaux" during boxing day. I'd saved up for two weeks just to get it.
I love that jacket (even now), because I know I'm not going to see someone else in my neighborhood will have one.
Not like those ridiculous plaid coats, or pea coats that I saw everyone wearing during winter.
It was like looking at "Where's Waldo", only everyone WAS waldo.
Did everyone's mother go to a PTA meeting and decide to do this as a prank? Or are all my friends and classmates in some sort of cult where they all have a strict dress code?
Why, why, why must people buy what's in style?
Doesn't it even matter what you like anymore?
I swear I once walked into class and saw everyone (including the boys) wearing a pink "Hollister" shirt. I was tempted to come to school next time with an "anti Hollister" shirt, made by my favorite band "Final Thought", just to get some variety.
Do you people really care that much of what people think of them?
Wearing labels and what's in style isn't everything you know. Try showing a little personality. That cardigan you saw last week may be in style, but does it fit you?
Maybe you're the type of person that looks great in sweat pants.
I'm tired of telling my friends that skinny jeans won't make you look thinner, and if I know what they're wearing is in style or not.
It doesn't matter.
You are you, and clothes are just there to cover you goodies.
Get over it.
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Sorry i am gonna re write that it was bad.
Oh my gosh i am so glad lots of other people see it that way! My mother is forever trying to get me to be like the other girls. Unlike me she can't see that being original is sooooo much better. In the town i see groups and they are wearing the same thing as each other. I dont understand how they think thats a good thing.
I bought black combat boots (they were awsome) i wore them to school and got picked on for them. Then like a month later EVERY GIRL HAD THEM. WTH!! They made them look horrible though they all put sarkaly thingys on them.
i realy realy don't get it :-/ grrr
Oh my gosh i am so glad lots of other people see it that way! My mother is forever tryiing to get me to be like all the other girls. Unlike me she can't see original is soooo much better. i dont get it i see groups in the town and they are wearing the same thing as each other. i dont under stan why they think thats a good thing.
I bought black combat boot (they were awsome) i had them on in school and got picked on for them. A month later EVERY GIRL WAS WEARING THEM. WTH! they all put thin sparkaly thingys on them. I dont get it :-/
Hey! I really liked your article; thanks for sharing it with us.
I have a theory that people don't necessarily like these clothes, but they're scared of what might happen if they don't stick to what's cool...actually, it's not really a theory. It's truth :) Once, a group of my best friends and I went to the mall. We all dressed absolutely ridiculous (tutus, cloaks, fingerless gloves, gypsy coin belts, cowboy hats, etc) and just wandered around. You wouldn't BELIEVE how many people stopped dead and STARED. I guess they couldn't believe people would be so...not alike? It really was interesting and fun to watch people's shocked reactions. :)
But anyway, great article! =D
Yeah! I totally agree!
If you sit on a bench outside a store while waiting for your mom to finish shopping in some old woman store, and look at the people walk by you’d be surprised at how many people look the same. Straight hair, (sometimes orange skin…ew), pink shirts, skinny blue jeans, and some pretty sandals and maybe even a scarf, to be extreme, is what you’ll be looking at. It’s everywhere, and it’s inevitable. I just got a leather jacket as well, and I’ve never fitted it with the perfect plastic girls at school. I wear black jeans, converse, and a tee-shirt- who cares what you wear! IT's not a simon says game
It's true that most school cliks look at what you wear, and then decide wether they should talk to you, but still! who cares! Are those the people you want to be seen with? Plastic barbies?
Say you meet a guy, you want him to see you and like you as you, not like everyone else. What are we? Mirrors of one girl?! Add a bit of character and personality in life people!
each style & fashion can be cute by itself,
but when overdone, it gets old.
one does not have to spend lots on money on something ugly & trendy
when one could buy something cute, for cheap(:
I went to school with a black and pink too-too [SP?] and everyone stared at me, but most kids said they loved it! xD Then I went to school with a black and pink hoodie with cat ears and a cloth cat hood and fingerless gloves. THEY LOVED THAT TOO! xD
