Are You a Slave to Fashion? - A Balanced View of Fashion

THE Bible says that God "has made everything beautiful in its time."  (Ecclesiastes 3:11, New International Version) We see beauty everywhere in the world around us. We also perceive it in humans. 

The fashion designer aims to enhance our beauty through the clothes we wear.  But, as show in the preceding article, the fashion industry has also redefined beauty. Professor of psychology Ruth Striegel-Moore observes:  "We've become so used to seeing extremely thin women, we've come to think this is what is beautiful."   (I haven't become that brainwashed) 

Clearly, it would be unwise to let the world's current concept of beauty pressure us into conformity. In her book Always in Style, Doris Pooser points out that "today's woman has no need to change of camouflage her body whenever a new 'ideal' emerges."  Indeed, why should we allow the media to impose its own particular stereotype?  "How much easier it is being ourselves, instead of trying frantically to change what we have,"  Pooser says. 

Note: And so says God as well.  Not everyone can be beautiful nor thin. God made us for  a reason, with our own personalities, or a certain shape or type of body or sense of humor. He did not intend for us to look like everyone else or be robots, or there would not be different types of people from all over the world. We are all related/descendants of/to Adam and Eve and I really wish that people would truly get a clue here.   

Next time: Are You a Slave to Fashion? - A Balanced View of Fashion/Ageless Beauty

From the Awake! magazine