Is Old School Fashion Repeating Itself

By Nelly Mellon


First of all, what is old school fashion? This is the fashion coming from 1970s to 1980s. Old school fashion is being brought back by fashion conscious young adults and teenagers today. Old school fashion is not determined only by the clothes that people are wearing. Old school fashion is evident in accessories, hairstyles and even in the attitude of the youth today. So the important question is why? So why old school fashion is coming back?

There are many reasons why people are going back to old school fashion. One of the most common reason is the fascination of the fashion in the past. Do you realize that the people who are bringing back old school fashion are the ones who grew up watching reruns of such shows as Happy Days? We are also the same generation who enjoy watching TV shows based on the past such as That 70's Show.

Come to think of it, we have been exposed so much to old school fashion in other media. Think of the movies: we are the ones who enjoyed watching movies of old shows like Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels and other movies which have been resurrected from the old death of camp TV to the new life of the cinema.

Well, the media certainly brought about the old school fashion revival. It was the spark that created the fire. The question, however, is what fuels the flames? But, the main reason is that people really like old school fashion. It looks good and helps them reconnect with a past which was not as complicated as the world today. The reason why old school fashion is constantly gaining popularity is the fact that once it was reintroduced into society, people found that they actually liked it.

Old school fashion is also very popular because of the fact that there's just something about it that is so sexy. Old school fashion was designed to show of the beauty of the human body. Fitted shirts and pants, cool patterns and designs, these are the trademarks of a past which young people have not experienced.

The good thing about old fashion clothes is that combined with the today's technology of comfortable fabrics, this designs can be pretty showy and casual in the same time.

But why old school fashion is coming back? By wearing this types of clothes a lot of people in fact want to reclaim the past that has never belonged to them. In fact this can be a metaphor for trying to extract the best things out of the past. So when this old fashion was brought into the country we didn't brought the bad memories with it. Old school fashion could either be a great example of recapturing the beautiful past or it could be a bad metaphor for selective amnesia. So you are to decide about this.




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