| A woman is walking along the street, her | | | | and impeccable seams. If earlier it was |
| attire catches everybody's eyes: she is | | | | impossible to go out wearing the same dress |
| clothed in the latest fashion. She draws | | | | more than once, now "grunge" style praises |
| everybody's attention, including yours, not | | | | scruffiness, as if it is saying: we are |
| only with her toilet, but also with conscious | | | | wearing the same cloth all the time! |
| superiority. Are you delighted? Are you | | | | |
| envious? | | | | Nevertheless, all this crude "old" cloth |
| | | | surpasses all reasonable prices. Some Levi's |
| Vainly! In fact, her appearance - is an | | | | models cost more than 6 thousands of dollars! |
| evidence of her deep inner complexes. There | | | | This trend, often causing associations with |
| is a science "psychology of clothing", where | | | | hippie from Beatles days, displays neglect to |
| the concept "fashion victim" - is not a | | | | cloth and a challenge to social inequality. |
| popular phrase, but a clinical diagnosis. | | | | However, psychologists consider that a style |
| Orientation exceptionally on the last word in | | | | of "chic rubbish heap", which bourgeoisie |
| fashion - is a sign of heightened | | | | added to its arsenal, says about its |
| hypochondria, a woman's psychological | | | | self-destruction and can even be treated as |
| dependence on other people's opinion, | | | | asking forgiveness for sins - similarly to |
| uncultivated self-respect. | | | | medieval monastic rags. |
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| According to psychologists, a man, whose | | | | 4. Exotic (ethnic) style. Hindu, Chinese, |
| costume is extremely considered (no matter | | | | Arabian and other oriental motives can be |
| which one, even a skiing one), often tries to | | | | just a fashionable detail for one people, and |
| hide his colossal diffidence and prove his | | | | a completed style and manner of clothing for |
| value, attract attention and sometimes to | | | | other people. Such choice testifies to one's |
| confirm his superiority with the help of some | | | | thirst for traveling, mental escape to exotic |
| attire. | | | | countries, where everything is not so grey, |
| | | | like around. Exotic style, covered with |
| All-sufficient, steady people with various | | | | bright national legends and traditions, says |
| interests usually dress in rather simple way, | | | | about one's wish to live in a fairy-tale, |
| not showing off, and interest in new trends | | | | escape from reality to some dream world. But |
| reasonably, not hunting for new labels. They | | | | it can also be a sign of belonging to |
| feel quite comfortable wearing as old jeans, | | | | culture, philosophy of some country, for |
| as an evening toilet (as a rule, rather | | | | example, Buddhism. |
| reserved). | | | | |
| | | | 5. Military style. Khaki color, camouflage |
| Moreover, to psychologists' opinion, one can | | | | pattern, details, peculiar to military cloth, |
| discern some certain type of | | | | high heavy boots - some women do like this |
| self-consciousness behind each style. | | | | style. You have not to be a psychologist to |
| | | | understand that this means escape from |
| 1. Classic style. Its main feature - are | | | | feminine, a wish to gain a foothold in such |
| moderation and traditional nature in | | | | masculine qualities, like decisiveness and |
| combination with fashionable trends without | | | | power. A clue to one's love for uniform (and |
| carrying to extremes. Quite self-confident | | | | for man's style in general) should be |
| people, who do not feel any heightened | | | | searched in childhood, in too strict father's |
| necessity to prove their magnitude to other | | | | upbringing, often military people, or fathers |
| people, moreover using clothing, keep to this | | | | dreaming about son and bringing up daughters, |
| style. | | | | like she was a boy... |
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| 2. Sporty style. Prominent organization men, | | | | 6. Country style. Variegated skirt, loose |
| bankers and other rich men, who always used a | | | | blouse, decorated with patterns, laces or |
| style "costume-cravat", suddenly began | | | | drawn-work, shoes without heels, simple |
| sweeping away jogging shoes, sporting cloth, | | | | beads, straw hat - these are attributes of |
| rucksacks or sportive bags from counters. | | | | natural, or country style. Simple, natural |
| Yes, of course, today an idea of youthful | | | | cloths and simple-minded, plain patterns are |
| appearance and healthy way of living has | | | | typical for it. This style can be a sign of |
| seized a strong hold on our minds, but this | | | | one's nostalgia on country life or testify |
| does not mean all these people decided to go | | | | about one's ecologic views. A straw hat and a |
| in for sport or invigoration. This cloth | | | | chintz skirt are saying with one accord with |
| became a standard not only for exercising, | | | | their possessor: we are not synthetic, we are |
| but also for rest, vacation. A turn to | | | | natural! |
| visible simplicity and liberation means | | | | |
| striving of well-to-do sections to "complete | | | | 7. "La Femme Fatal". This style is |
| with poor", as psychologists consider. | | | | everlasting, but it is marked with |
| | | | fashionable attributes: high-heel shoes, |
| 3. Grunge style. A style of "shabby cloth" | | | | skirt with cut, deep décolleté, strings |
| gave designers a good task! They are cutting | | | | and open-work stocking. A woman-temptress, a |
| off and out, ripping up, soaking cloth in | | | | woman-vamp, oversteps the limits of elegant |
| chloric acid, pressing, imitating spots and | | | | moderation venturesomely, and self-affirms, |
| patches knowingly - they do all these things | | | | as an object of men's lust. Strangely enough, |
| only because a "grunge" style has come into | | | | the choice of this style does not always mean |
| fashion. Tattered pullovers, dresses, coming | | | | a woman's heightened sexuality. We can rather |
| unraveled, dirty jeans are sold in leading | | | | say that such woman does not see any other |
| couturier's shops and ordinary boutiques. | | | | advantages in herself, which could attract |
| This is a challenge to elegance, struggle | | | | men's attention to her and cause their |
| with stylishness, expensive refined cloths | | | | delight. |