Li Meixi is a 12-year-old girl from Chengdu, Sichuan. When she sees fashionable people on the street, she tries to keep away from them. “I am afraid that they think I’m out of fashion,” said Li. This is called fashion anxiety(焦虑). It is a hot topic online. These days, many people feel worried about their clothes.
In fact, behind fashion anxiety is fashion bullying(霸凌). Fashion magazines and advertisements(广告)sell the “newest and greatest” trends(趋势). They tell us what to wear. If we don’t follow the trends, we may worry that people think we’re unfashionable. Also, fashion anxiety comes because we are not confident(自信的)enough.
Ideas about fashion anxiety
Do you have fashion anxiety? What do you think about it? Let’s look at how some teenagers feel.
Liu Jiawei, 14, Songyuan, Jilin
I have fashion anxiety. When I see some people wearing trendy clothes, I dare(敢)not look at them. But this doesn’t bring me much trouble. I still want to buy good-value(性价比高的)clothes. Being suitable is of great importance.
Yin Peixin, 11, Wuhan, Hubei
I love fashion. But my fashion taste is a little more traditional, such as long dresses and skirts. I don’t like fashion trends like green hair and ripped(破洞的)jeans. It’s just so strange to me! I don’t think I have fashion anxiety. But I feel bad for people with fashion anxiety. They shouldn’t be ashamed(羞愧的)of their clothes, because everyone is different—they are special in their own way.
What is fashion?
Fashion is about comfort and feeling good. —Max Azria, US fashion designer
Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion. —Jean Cocteau, French designer
Fashion is not something that is only in dresses. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. —Coco Chanel, French fashion desigher
In fact, fashion changes every season. Anyone can make it. If you can wear something with confidence, you will be the one starting a trend. Clothes just show what you look like, not who you are. What matters in inner(内心的)beauty.
All about fashion |
Introduction to the fashion anxiety | Seeing fashionable people on the street, Li Meixi 56 herself away from them and worries about her own clothes. |
Fashion bullying 57 fashion anxiety | Fashion bullying comes because of the two reasons. We are really 58 in the “newest and greatest” trends and don’t want to be out of fashion. We don’t have 59 confidence. |
Ideas about fashion anxiety | Liu Jiawei has fashion anxiety, but he doesn’t feel worried because it’s 60 for him to wear suitable clothes. Yin Peixin doesn’t have fashion anxiety. She finds it 61 to have fashion anxiety because everyone is special and 62 from each other. |
Famous 63 ideas | Fashion is about comfort and feeling good. Fashion 64 everything interesting in our life, which comes from our ideas, lifestyles and things around us. |
Conclusion | Fashion is always 65 and we should look for it from our inner beauty. |