The Fashion Apocalypse.

The fashions of most time periods revisit other years in a small way, but the trends of these early 2000's are simply picking an era every season to get completely into.
Fashion reflects our thoughts and this plays into the political/ social scene because at the moment everyone's scared, whether of terrorists, invading countries, diseases, or more inward and personal issues.

Think back to around (maybe slightly after) 9/11, when the 1950's look was really stylish. Everyone reminisces as that era (meaning the 50's) being so wholesome, classic, and safe. People were scared, and wanted to go back to that feeling. Perhaps designers were thinking a little deeper, about things like the space race, the cold war, etc. those events were unsettling and somewhat mirrored the US and its relations in 2001/2002.

Then things started to change later on, with more and more people realizing that George Bush is a total douche. They protested and tried to change things, similar to the hippies and protesters of the 1960's. Except at that time, the protesters actually effected things. The protest hippie feeling is the political root of boho. Now, trying to put this mod and black look in a political light, I’ve come up with this: politically, at least in North America, people are just getting tired. They are becoming jaded, and this affects the protests, and thus the hippie trend. They disassociate themselves from both, and do the total 60's opposite of boho -- mod. and when you compare this season's black and grey stripped-down military mod look to earlier boho flouncy colourful styles, you see that the whole world is just getting a little more cynical. That cynicism translates into fashion, where maybe most designers just don't what to try as much. Instead of creating completely (or almost completely) new looks, they just borrow from another era, either for comfort of to comment on the current state of things, and relate it to another time. That relation then goes back to comfort.

After the cynical feelings we all just went crazy. Going into the 80's materialism and shopping for happiness. With shiny spandex and crayola colours we needed a distraction from the political world. And even now, as we bring this trend to an even greater extent with the return of the spice girl 90's it becomes clear that our social feelings are reflected in the fashions. We seem to be coming full circle. What most people don't realize is the feelings we have about the world are reflected in the fashions of the time. Now that we have come full circle it's seems time for an apocalypse.


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