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does media set our wardrobe?well thats the question i always ask myself because we live in a world where by we are so exposed to the media ,very often we see adverts ,megazines like YOU and drum megazines that always inlude a clothing section,complete fashion megazine that olny deals with fashion www.glomour.com\fshion\spring-2013-com ,and even fashion events like the south african fashion week where new fashion trends are being exposed to us as viewers,well it does not only end there because we still find some radio programmes and t.v programmes that have topics on "what to wear this spring or this winter" ,metro fm is one of the radio stations that mainly focuses on fashion trends because i sometimes listen to the azania show that starts from 9am to 10am on week days and you always find a fashion designer being called to advise and give poeple tips on what to wear or rather on what its in or out in terms of fashion and this also goes along with tips on how to use your makeup .
although we still find some websiets that helps peolple to dress acording their custom clothing www.spreadshit\custom-clothing .com,but i still think that media has more power on telling people how they should look.
TYPES OF FASHION TRENDS THAT ARE BROUGHT
AND CHANGED BY THE MEDIA
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let's take fashion trends like colour blocking and vintage ,colour blocking was exposed through clothing adverts,megazines ,and on fashion events and you could find it on any store that you could go to in 2011 but one could no longer wear that because of the agenda that has been set in the media to it as being "so 2011" ,then vintage came in and people had to move from colour blocking to vintage now this shows that media sets the agenda for us in terms of fashion although it does not directly tell us that "this is what you need to wear" but we all know that people tend to do things that are showen in the media.
thats true nonkie our fashion styles and how we dress depend on the media,media does tell us what to wear and how we should look.....actaully i think media has taken over our lives.
ReplyDeletethnx for reading my blog mpho....you couldnt have said it better gal
DeleteMedia definitely sets what we should wear, I mean trends are are set and pushed by media. We see people from tv and megazines and we copy their styles and we want to be them.
ReplyDeleteyeah i really agree with you on that mapule......without the media fashion is nothing.
Deletewow I love the subject it is my great pleasure to agree with you in this one media is our main source of our fashion u cant just wake up and dress up we get to see what to wear from our television news papers and so forth we get shows like selimathunzi on SABC1 that gives us a feed back on who was wearing what on the certain event who was the designer ns where to find the designer media help us to match our clothes jewellery and shoes we are truly clueless without media in the fashion industry
ReplyDeletetrue that mandy and to add on ur point i aslo still watch selimathunzi just to see whoz wearing what!
DeleteTo some extent yes the media does set our wardrobe telling us what we should wear and what not to wear, but I think that sometimes we turn to take them too seriously that we forget our own values. We see on TV or magazine a celebrity wearing something and look good and think it will look good on us too, which is not true. What looks good on another person won’t look good to you, we are all different and we should stop allowing the media to control us and tell us what to wear, wear what you feel comfortable in and what looks good to you.
ReplyDeleteyou have a point there thobeka media has changed our values and how we dress as people,and this shows that media has completly changed us as people and it has become part of our lives as we depend on it on everything we do.....buy there way thnx for the comment gal
DeleteYea sure, we usually get new trends from media... so ya media do help us when it comes to our lookings
ReplyDeletethnx for the comment i am glad you agree with me
DeleteThats very true ey like you say its all about the agenda setting what we see happening in the media oviusly is what we would also want to experience.When yoe see some thing new you go like'wow' i want try out that thing at the end of the day we do what the media tells us.
ReplyDeletethat is very true ....thnx for the comment :)
Deleteu got da point girl, media s da driving force of how we should look, it tells us wat is gud and wat is not
ReplyDeleteyou couldnt have said it better.....thnx for reading the blog it shows that not only gals are interested on fashion...#winx
Deletewow great blog gal....actually i am one of those people who look up to the media in terms of fashion....i am alwys interested on new fashion trends,so i would have to agree that media does set our wardrobe!
ReplyDeletethanx for reading my blog and thnx for the comment,it is true what u just said there most of us depend on the media in terms of fashion
Deletenice blog there nionkie....but it feels like only gals i welcomed here*winx but never the less i think you have a point and i should certainly agree with anyone that has stated that media has become a bigger picture toi an extended that we even rely to it in terms of how we should should dress and look....and like you said every time you listen to radio,watch t.v or read a megazine fashion iz always discussed in terms of how should a person look.
ReplyDeletelol this blog is for both males and females because fashion is not only for females but males r aslo involved,and the media influence us equally
DeleteThe media do tell us how to wear by introducing programmes that focuses on fashion for eg 'style' a channel that deal mostly with fashion its include programme such HOW DO I LOOK.
ReplyDeletethats true lungile the more we have fashion events and programmes about fashion the more the media is telling us what we should wear
Deleteyes the media does control our wardrobe by telling us the latest trends and by dissing styles that are out of favor
ReplyDeleteyea true that peace thanx for the comment
DeleteI think the media does set our wardrobe. this is because most of us use the media to keep up with the latest trends.
ReplyDeleteTrue that. The media influences us (audiences) to this new fashions and we tend to adapt to them. I think it simpler since we have media because we get updated about everything that happens in our everyday lives.
ReplyDeletei dont think the media sets our wordrobe at all, but also guess it all depends on the type of person. im not a fashion person, am very picky when it comes to clothes, and also dont go for expensive clothes because at the end of the day,they are just clothes and serve the very same goal (covering our bodies)and all of us are being coverd by clothes at the end of each day...so kuyafana
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