IELTS Essay about Fashion 谈流行时尚

IELTS writing task 2
Topic

In some countries people are strongly influenced by fashion, such as clothing and hairstyle. What in your opinion attracts people to fashion? Is this a positive or negative development?


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Fashion comes and goes, keeping steps wih the evolution of society. What attracts people to fashion is as much as a human nature to look good as a necessity to catch up with the mainstream. To say such a development is positive or negative to society, in my opinion, is pointless. Fashion is always as fashion does. It just happens.

The influence of fashion is a mirror to society in evolution, with steps quicker now than in the past. Society, as changing, looks for the newest and, if economically possible, the best. So, naturally, people want the latest in clothes and the greatest in hairstyle, among other fashion tendencies. When one looks at the evolution of fashion, it is plain to see that it advances as all things do--technology, ideas, working conditions, etc. The attraction to look right is next to inevitable, especially to better-off people, particularly women.

That that attraction is good or bad is not a problem to worry about because right fashion never goes out of style. Right fashion just fades away, only to return again, to reflect the nostalgic, if not evolutionary society, particularly after the Industrial Revolution. Before the modernization of fashion industry, trends and styles did not change as often as they do today. Based on this observation, I hold the logic that, although people may be strongly influenced by fashion, it is the society that gives rise to fashion.

As a conclusion, it makes sense that the way people dress and adorn themselves changes to fit social evolution which in part is associated with celebrities. However, I could not fail to notice the mainstream of this time-- tighter fit clothing and longer hair for men and women alike. As a general rule, fashion goes with prevailing culture of society. Subculture, like teen fashion or punk fashion, exists only to prove the rule.