According to Barbara Hulanicki, women today dress poorly because we are slaves to fashion. She believes fashion makes us all dress the same. I guess this can be true in some respects as people who have an interest in fashion and trends are likely to follow them. There are some braver people out their that do take risks with what they wear, and wear things which you don't normally see every day but we're not all as brave as those people.
My university tutor has said he thinks as a whole our class dresses quite 'safe' and as Barbara says, it may be because the high street, which is what we can predominately afford (we are all students) is so highly saturated with the same things. I agree in the sense the high street is constantly competing to get the latest trends from higher end designers as quickly as possible but at the end of the day it is the person who puts together the outfit and essentially what they want to go with what. It's up to us to make that decision to be out there and quirky if we want to.
She's said: 'It's very difficult to know what to wear now. That's why I always wear black.' I agree with you there Barbara. I don't think it's necessarily if I don't know what to wear, but you can't really go wrong with black, it's timeless. As trends are recycled such as the latest 90's denim dungaree fad, this contributes to making things look samey as we've seen them before. Until we have newer, fresher trends that get everyone excited, the way people dress may still be boring.
