Kaja Silverman wrote an interesting article about the importance of how fashion has become of great relevance in the way of how people are recognized, and it is of more importance if it is analyzed the evolution of clothing. Silverman claims that in the 18th century men clothes become simpler at the same time the Enlightenment was taking place as the raise of middle class. I believe it is important to acknowledge how now in the last decades women have been experiencing a kind of emancipation and are being able to get higher positions and through their upward movement in the professional field, their clothing is also changing to a harmonizing and homogenizing uniform through the androgynous fashion.
Also, this simplification of men clothes was in order to inhibit narcissistic and exhibitionist desires of these men. This claim can be supported through the use of extravagant clothing of some hip hop artists and of some people who goes up in the social scale. These people know how clothing is a symbol of wealth, and even if now we do not use the clothing of the Renaissance, we do have brands and designers who have become the new way to achieve status through clothing. In conclusion, fashion is not only fabrics used to cover us from the weather but also a tool that has been used to show some type of control or status in our society.
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