PEOPLE USE FASHION TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES Words  Haute Left.  Leftist who think of themselves as the aristocrats or upper level of Leftist political  thinking Growing Trend  A fashion starting to become serious Gregarious  Someone who is social Fashion was described in many ways. According to the Cambridge dictionary, fashion is a popular style.  In this case, it is a popular style of clothing. Quoting the famous fashion designer Coco Chanel  ‘Fashion is not something that exists in clothes alone; fashion is something in the air. It’s the wind that blows in the new direction, you feel it coming, you smell it. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening’.  Self-expression is an expression of your personality, emotions, or ideas, especially through art, music,  or acting. But is it possible to express ourselves through clothes?  Do people use fashion to express themselves?  Clothing plays a great role in human life since the cavemen first tied a leaf around themselves.  In some ancient Indian cultures, people wore specific clothes, intense and colourful body paint and  jewellery to symbolize faith, or in the case of women fertility.  “Many societies passed decrees known as sumptuary laws to prescribe or forbid the wearing of specific  styles by specific classes of people.  In ancient Egypt only those in high position could wear sandals; the Greeks and Romans controlled clothing.  Clothing was always used as a tool for capturing attention. In combat-oriented times it was important for women to find strong, protective men to keep the family safe. Usually, these men wore animal fur, tooth, bones, and shields and painted combat symbols to demonstrate their place in the community.  Clothes demonstrate something in us even those who say they do not like fashion. Quoting Edna Woolman Chase who was the editor in chief of the Vogue magazine “Fashion can be bought,  style one most possesses”. This may be true but fashion and style walk together. For instance, would you go  to a present-day Rolling Stones party dressed in the height of fashion and style that was cool for the 70s This sentence basically means that there is a big difference between fashion and style.  But Fashion is about the clothes and their relationship to the moment in time they being presented in, Fashion cannot exist away from the style and vice versa.  In the world of fashion, there is a hierarchy, with the dictators (like fashion designers, magazine editors) on  the top and the followers on the bottom.  Fashionable pieces and clothes don’t contain the personality of the followers; it is just a going trend that  personal identity allows becoming their own style. This is very important because clothing gives a first  impression. Wearing fashionable clothes give the impression of someone demanding, modern,  informed and open-minded, while wearing simple trainers can make someone undemanding, refused or  careless. To sum up, style is making a statement of personal identity, with the use of fashion. The careless  dresser probably cares as much for the careless look as I do for the Dandy look. “Dress is a continual manifestation of intimate thoughts, a language a symbol”. Before people are close  Clothes give information about the wearer.  Clothes announce sex, age, social class and in some  cases occupation. Fashion can also reflect many personal things as origin, personal opinion, taste,  sexual desires and current mood. The brain automatically observes these things and registers them,  even if people are not able to put these observations in words or are not aware of what is happening.  Clothes, therefore, are non-verbal language. Why are people following fashion? Human nature has a side called imitative instinct.  Naturally, humans as gregarious living being feel better as a part of a community. People follow or  copy each other because it is a natural biological protective instinct. People have a need to belong somewhere.  At the same time, human nature also requires detachment, personal prominence. This comes from the  fact that every human is different and wants to find him or herself, develop their own personality,  while still belonging to society. Following fashion and being an individual character and being a part of a  community is possible by copying and not copying fashion but you are always saying something. , and fashion is a tool with which this is possible People are liable to judge others by their look as the book by its cover. This human habit makes others afraid  of expressing themselves through fashion and clothes. The fact that people judge often by appearance  developed a self-protective side of humans. As fashion can be used for self-expression  it can be also used as a shield or protection. “People use fashion to present the image they want”. From the  person who wants to present a careless Haute Left personality to the Bank manager.   As an example, people wear uniforms in schools and at workplaces because it is required, and without it,  the opportunity of studying or working there is not available. People can easily make the impression  they want by wearing proper clothes.  Charles Dickens wrote down how the upper class was judged upon their clothes, which were ornate and  arty while the lower class wore monochrome, torn materials. This part of fashion can give proper  or false information about someone because it is about expectations and circumstances.  As an example businessmen wear expensive brands like Boss or Armani to show their wealth and  impress business partners. This part of fashion is about self-expression because the social  differences are shown and the facts of being wealthy, poor, middle-classed are part of somebody’s character.  Fashion was and will be used as a status symbol, and representing the wearer's place in the society it gives  information about him or her.  In conclusion, fashion is an always-changing prevailing style of dress and its not just fashion from the fashion  houses but the fashion that a group of people identify themselves as. 1. Most of you try to dress like one another . Do you really want to fit in at all costs ? 2. If yes do you not think that's a bit sad 3. What person comes across to you as an Nikon of fashion and style? 4. Do you think that as I said Fashion cannot exist without style? 5. In the article it says clothes can impress business partners do you think its true .Say why? 6. If one of the Haute left wears a beaten up old leather jacket do you think in his group he will be  impressing someone just as much as the business man?