What Goes Around, Comes Back Around (Blog 4)

Style, we all have it, but do we know what it truly is? Simply, style illustrates the thing or things that you surround yourself with to express who you are as a person. For the most part, style is influenced by your surroundings, the times, and your financial standing. But in reality, it reflects the person you are deep inside and what you deem valuable and worth spending money on.  Looking back into time, we can easily see how styles and fashions evolved over the course of time. Most of the influence on styles came from the condition of the world  at the present time and how people felt about critical situations. Comparing today to 50 years ago, we can easily say that things are clearly different. But are things REALLY that different? For example, I took a look at some of the photos Andy Warhol created and realized that the more things change the more they really stay the same. A lot of the clothing articles and styles people wore back then have wedged their way back into our society and are now popular fashion trends. These trends are around but they are not as old fashioned as they once were. Today, we keep our style as a generation while mixing the old school American style.  Back then the style was more simplistic; it also contrasted with the environment as to rebel against society. The style of their clothing expressed their thoughts, while the background showed the state of society. They also embraced a lot of shadiness and secrecy with wearing shades and adapting to street culture. Today the style of college students is more free and all about self-expression. I see everything from gothic to punk and hip-hop to preppy styles. The styles are very free and vary day to day; there are however a lot of students and steadily stick with one style to express themselves and their thoughts consistently. Regardless of the time period, people subtly tell you about culture through their dress.
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