When you peruse style layouts in magazines, you realize that
style is expensive ($1500 for a coat or a pair of pants) and so style is really
status. Style is created then superimposed on the buyer. It’s a look, a
statement that you have it or at least you can get it. It’s phony.
Style isn’t that kind of style when it is authentic. Style
can cost almost nothing, and mean everything because it is genuine to the
individual. It’s an outward expression of the inner person.
This is important to note because when
individuals—especially adolescents—are trying to find themselves, they are
targeted to consume the superficial masks of identity rather than to search for
an identity from within.
This is a primary human task and one which society often
fails at supporting.
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