Fashion Politics

Our clothes and fashion choice have  psychological meaning and implications in society. And visual transmission of our personality through clothes and fashion is universal and basic means  to define who we are.  So what does female activist view about Fashion Industry? Modern women’s predominant principle is that, women must get liberty to choose their limit and do whatever they want to do, unless they are not breaking law or encroaching anybody else right. In such context, it is not astonishing that some modern women regard Fashion as a breakthrough of feminist movement. In contrary Some feminist argue that fashion has preferred one female body perfect over all other. And peddled social tendency that a women will be unnoticed if she doesn’t were certain clothes or possess specific body type. 

Models and actress are often seen in transparent attire, short clothes, backless dresses, which wouldn’t be awkward in fashion industry.  However, in society these body revealing clothes are only for sensual  pleasure and gaze to men. Thus, this sexist nature of modern fashion annoy female activist who are trying to restrain objectification  of female body.  

 Modern women opines that rural women’s are enslaved by their culture for they are not allowed to dress as they want and urban women are liberated because they are privileged to choose their dress. Their notion is also reasonable to some extend but they are missing a point. It’s not the dress that ensure women liberty or oppression. It’s whether or not they enjoy same privilege as their male counterparts. In our country modern woman are constantly objectifying themselves in name of fashion which indirectly impact psychology of young girls. My primary concern is, little brains will grow up cultivating idea that they need to appear in “sexy” way, and possess certain type figure to get public attention. 

We had created a system under which girls feel she has to were revealing dress to get attention and taken seriously. Normally in screen we can see celebrities dancing in revealing clothes, so that she would get “noticed” as an actress. Today, girls on screen are not looked as performer, they are looked at as sensual object.   If any celebrity is deliberately and willingly decide to expose and perform in certain way and feels relaxed doing so, should we call that feminist act or has she been victim of system, that is objectifying her without her consciousness ?.  This question remain unanswered. 

My scorpion brain  find hard to believe that half naked celebrities advocate women to see who they are on inside, not outside. I believe, No father wants her daughter’s body being gazed in street, no brother wants his sister’s body be the topic in “coffee talk”. Yet, they are resilient by force not by choice. They are forced to accept this objectification of their women’s body as fashion.