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Fashion Essay in English

A fashion is a style or manner which is widely current in a particular region or period. There are fashions in almost every sphere of life-in clothes, foot-wear, hair - style, in oratory and art. However, fashions are usually associated with clothes, because it is easy to introduce changes in dress, and easy to follow them. 

Hence the rage among teenagers is always to wear the latest style of clothes in vogue. Should fashions be followed? In order to answer this question, we have to distinguish between two kinds of fashions - fashions which are generally followed and have come to stay and those which are aped by a few sensationmongers and are likely to be ephemeral. 

An average person would do well to adopt the fashions of the first kind. For example, in large cities in India a shirt or bush-shirt and trousers are the norm in male dress now-a-days, and a person wearing a dhoti will be dubbed 'old  fashioned and will attract unnecessary attention. 

A South Indian in a lungi will stand out in a street in Mumbai or Calcutta and needlessly remind others of his South Indianness. "While in Rome do as the Romans do" is a wise adage. Is it not sensible to follow the current tastes in external matters like dress and concentrate one's attention on the really important and essential things? 

Besides, the widely prevalent fashions are usually rooted in some convenience or advantage. A bush shirt and pants, for example, are suitable for work. As regards the flashy fashions affected by a few flamboyant youths, it is not desirable to ape them. 

They have neither rhyme nor reason behind them and are a nine days' wonder. There is an amusing story which illustrates the fickleness of such fashions. Once a lady had bought a new hat and was running home panting. When somebody asked her why she was running, she explained that she was afraid her new hat might be out of fashion before she reached home!

Men of genius and revolutionaries have a right to defy existing fashions. Mahatma Gandhi, a man of firm beliefs and convictions, did not care for the sartorial fashions in vogue. All the great writers and artists have ignored the popular tastes and modes and broken new ground. But such men are likely to set new fashions which will soon become as tyrannical as the ones they defied. 

Was not the Gandhi cap a badge of patriotism till recently? The vast majority of politicians don't deserve to be sporting the Gandhi cap as there is as much patriotism in them as there is in a beggar on the streets. 

Difficult Words: Current - prevalent. rage - strong desire. ape - imitate. sensation - mongers - those who deal in excitement. ephemeral - short - lived. norm - standard. dubbed - nick - named. stand out - be conspicuous. flashy - showy. flamboyant - fond of display. a nine days' wonder - something - that attracts attention only for a few days. sartorial - of clothes. in vogue - in fashion.

Essay 2

Fashion Essay in English

Modern dazzeling world is the world of wonderful fashions. Fashion has got over our nerves and become part and parcel of our modern style and standard of living. Fashions start from our very food and clothing. 

Eating continental dishes in open air resteaurants is a fashion. Eating fast foods like two minutes noodles, sauses and soups is a fashion. All instant food items are a fashion. Wearing colourful clothes is a fashion. Cutting hair in various styles is a fashion. Fashions have stepped in every aspect of human life.

Fashions are born from man's lust for novelty. It's human tendency to search for something new everytime. One is bored with the sameness. So fashions are found out. One searches for newness and fashions come up. 

Fashions mean new styles. Everybody, of any age likes fashions in one way or the other. But fashions are more popular among teenagers. Teenage is a sensitive and creative age. This is an age when a girl or a boy - wants to look more smart, impressive and prominent. 

So a new fashion spreads like a news. They dress themselves in fashionable clothes and get hair cut in fashionable styles. Girls wear fashionable churidars, skirts and blouses. They apply cosmetic products like creams, foundations, lotions, face powders, lipsticks, nail paints, bindis and kajal. 

They wear earings, brouches, bracelets, bangles and bead or metal neckbands in number of colours. Tiity wear sandles of high heels. They try to look colourful and outstanding. The boys also do not lag behind in dressing themselves well. They wear colourful shirts and make their personality look handsome. 

Clothes make the man' is the trend behind fashionable clothing. So many fashionable clothes are born in a tailor's shop. But now-a-days girls and boys seem to have exchanged their liking of dressing themselves. 

Girls now-a-days prefer a shirt and a tight jean pant. They get hair cut short in a manly style whereas boys prefer colourful shirts and grown up hair. Girls and boys make a variety of hair-do's. They part their hair in different ways and comb in styles. 

They spend hours together on a conscious effort and labour to curl a lock of hair. Some prefer to let their hair loose. Many hairstyles and hair - cuts from movies prevail among girls like a sagar plait or a sadhana hair cut. If a hero balds his head, boys with bald heads are a common scene. 

That's fashion Fashions in India are now-a-days nothing but following western styles blindly. One keeps his reason aside while imitating them and doesn't consider whether it is suitable to Indian weather and culture. 

If one thinks of it, then a fashion won't remain a fashion'. So fashions is nothing but faddism. In western countries people are crazy after fashions and hold glamerous fashion shows and publish fashion guides and magazines. The trend is now coming in India as well.

Fashions change quickly like a change in weather. They live a short life, in the sense that, new fashions always arise making the previous lot old. But what comes as a new fashion can hardly be called new. It is either an imitation of some western style or the old wine in a new bottle. 

Change of fashions is a rotating wheel in which old fashions become new in the new context after a decade or two. They again become old to become new in the course of time. The wheel goes round and round. Truely, there is nothing new under the sun.

Now-a-days a new fashion is a market winner. There is a whole lot of fashion - designers and interior decorators working day in and day out. They discover new models, new styles and new designs. They design garments. 

They design prints on cloths like bed-sheets, curtains. They design wooden furniture. They design pots and pans and other ceramics. They design glass-wares and crockery. Using all these designs an interior decorator designs the decoration of a house or an office. 

These are very paying professions, fashion designing and interior decoration as they are called Thus, it is an age of jaunty fashions. They do give beautiful and pompus appearance, but it is external and superficial. 

In this world when materialism is spreading wantonly and ruling human minds, man is crazy after shallow external appearance and artificial beauty of fashions. He is losing his true beauty, the fashion designed for his spirit by Mother Nature, his rationality and a fashion of Simple Living And High Thinking.'in India as well.

Fashions change quickly like a change in weather. They live a short life, in the sense that, new fashions always arise making the previous lot old. But what comes as a new fashion can hardly be called new. It is either an imitation of some western style or the old wine in a new bottle. 

Change of fashions is a rotating wheel in which old fashions become new in the new context after a decade or two. They again become old to become new in the course of time. The wheel goes round and round. Truely, there is nothing new under the sun.

Now-a-days a new fashion is a market winner. There is a whole lot of fashion - designers and interior decorators working day in and day out. They discover new models, new styles and new designs. They design garments. 

They design prints on cloths like bed-sheets, curtains. They design wooden furniture. They design pots and pans and other ceramics. They design glass-wares and crockery. Using all these designs an interior decorator designs the decoration of a house or an office. 

These are very paying professions, fashion designing and interior decoration as they are called Thus, it is an age of jaunty fashions. They do give beautiful and pompus appearance, but it is external and superficial. 

In this world when materialism is spreading wantonly and ruling human minds, man is crazy after shallow external appearance and artificial beauty of fashions. He is losing his true beauty, the fashion designed for his spirit by Mother Nature, his rationality and a fashion of "Simple Living And High Thinking.

a human tendency (अ ह्यूमन टेण्डन्सी) - मानवी प्रवृत्ती; to come up (टु कम अप) - निर्माण होणे; teenage (टीन-एज) - विशीच्या आतील कौमार्यावस्था; sensitive (सेन्सिटिव) - संवेदनाशील; creative (क्रिएटिव) - निर्माणक्षम; prominent (प्रॉमिनण्ट) - ठळक; outstanding (आउटस्टॅण्डिंग) - उठावदार, वेगळेपणाने उठून दिसणारे; to lag behind (टु लॅग बिहाइण्ड) - मागे पडणे; clothes make the man (क्लोद्स् मेक द मॅन) - कपडा माणसास बनवतो. (ही एक इंग्रजी म्हण आहे. 'कपड्यांवरून माणसाची छाप पडते असा' तिचा अर्थ आहे.); liking (लायकिंग) - डa hair-do (अ हेअर डू) - केशरचना, to curl (टु कर्ल) - वळविणे, कुरळे करणे; a lock of hair (अ लॉक ऑफ हेअर) - केसांची बट; to prevail (टु प्रिव्हेल) - चालू असणे; to imitate (टु इमिटेट) - अनुकरण करणे; culture (कल्चर) - संस्कृती; faddism (फॅडिझम) - नादिष्टपणा, crazy (क्रेझी) - नादिष्ट; glamerous (ग्लॅमरस) - झगझगाटाचे; in the sense (इन द सेन्स) - म्हणजे असे की; the old wine in the new bottle (द ओल्ड वाइन इन द न्यू बॉटल) - जुनीच गोष्ट नव्या स्वरूपात (एक इंग्रजी वाक्प्रचार); There is nothing new under the sun (देअर इज नथिंग न्यू अण्डर द सन) - या सूर्याखाली (जगात) काहीही नवे नसते (एक इंग्रजी म्हण); to rotate (टु रोटेट) - गोल फिरणे; jaunty (जॉण्टी) - छानछोकीचे, अक्कडबाज; pompous (पॉम्पस) - भपकेबाज; superficial (सुपरफिशियल) - वरवरचे; materialism (मटिरिअॅलिझम) - भौतिकवाद, wantonly (वॉण्टनली) - अनिर्बंधपणे, मुक्तपणे; shallow (शलो) - उथळ; extenal appearance (एक्स्ट र्नल अपियरन्स) - बाह्य स्वरूप; rationality (रॅशनॅलिटी) - बुद्धिमत्ता; simple living and high thinking (सिम्पल लिविंग अॅण्ड हाय थिंकिंग) - साधी राहणी व उच्च विचारसरणी