Fashion's Pop Culture Influences
Those who are looking to be inspired can find it all around them. From city streets, to architectural buildings, sunrises to sunsets. Pop culture, including television, music, film, magazines and comic books are often amongst the biggest influences to effect young people in particular. Every generation has brought about a new style of fashion. The eighties were all about bold prints and shoulder-pads, the nineties introduced neons and spandex to the mix and the twenty-fist century has brought back high-waisted jeans, boho dresses, and punk-chic styles amongst others. Of course fashion is cyclical, so many trends and looks are revisited.
The popularity of television show, Mad Men, had many big designers revisiting styles of the 1960s including, cigarette sleeves, shift dresses and stunning suits for men. Major high street brands like H&M have often played around with polkadots and ruffled clothing from the 80s as well as hippy styles from the 60s and 70s.
It's funny how we see a guy out in a pair of blue denim trousers and a jean top, with a backwards hat and the first thing that pops into our mind is Will Smith from his Fresh Prince of Bel Air days. We see someone in acid washed jeans and it's A.C. Slater from Saved by the Bell. The latest trend of harem pants for women has those with a sense of humour thinking, M.C. Hammer much?
In high school you could tell who listened to hip hop vs. heavy metal based on the clothes they wore. The truth is most of us want to fit in somewhere, so we choose a style and tend to stick with it. If your interests tend to be dominated by one type of music or lifestyle your wardrobe is likely to accommodate that.
Or if you're someone who simply loves fashion you'll play with lots of different looks. Sometimes you might look like a kid who returned to the 80s and other times you might be playing the part of a 1950s business person, where men can be seen wearing double breasted suits and women wearing pillbox collared tunics and princess-line dresses and both always in jewellery representative of the era.
Some of television's most fashionable shows include Gossip Girl, Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, Beverly Hills 90210, Sex and the City, Pretty Little Liars and My So Called Life.
Which television shows or characters have been fashion icons to you? Has the music you listen to ever effected the way you dressed? Where does your fashion inspiration come from?
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