Reading books, magazines, periodicals and other forms of literature gives us a unique pleasure. The habit adds to our knowledge and reveals different styles of expressions to us. We learn new words. The student period is the best time for cultivating reading habit. It seasons the mind into maturity and adds seriousness to character. The shallow character of modern student is due to his paying more attention to movies, TV serials, game shows, video, surfing, website chatting, mobiles, SMSing etc.
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Change is the name of the game and basic in rule of nature. The most visible signs of changes can be seen in seasons and the new fashions people adopt to every season and year. The nature is full of dandy characters. Master chameleon, cocky rooster, peacock, song birds, antelopes, animals with glistering coats like horse and polar bear, minks, mesmerisingly designed coat wearing zebra, leopard, tiger, ziraffe, cat, butterflies, fascinating insects and a myriad patterned fish. Nature’s fashion show is unlimited.
By nature, man is also fashion loving. Humans love change, variety, novelty, attraction and eye candies. May be, we take inspiration from the nature. Each one of us wishes to be smart, charming, likeable, modern, fresh and up-to-date one who knows what is in-thing. The new fashions are statements on these desires. We adopt different fashions at different times, places and occasions. No one wants to be an old fashioned odd one and out of fashion. In modern times fashions have become indicators of a society’s progress in culture and civilisation. Man is no animal to live for food only. He wants new styles, decorations, etiquettes, tastes and social manners to feel alive as a member of intelligent species. Human civilisation itself is man’s intellectual product which requires constant inflow of new ideas. Fashions are external expression of the same effort to remain vibrant and progressive. In wider sense fashion is not limited to clothes and ornamental items only. The famous authors have their own styles and fashions of writing. Similarly there are fashions in music, architecture, lyries, painting etc. The fashions are all inclusive. They advertise a person’s economic prosperity, cultural wealth and the social upward rise.
Today fashion has become a big industry. Mumbai and Delhi are fashion hubs of India with year round fashion shows. In Europe, Paris and London have always been fashion savvy. New York is America’s fashion centre. Some people think that fashions are rich people’s indulgence in extravaganza, a sheer waste of money and time. But they should remember that fashion loving societies have outpaced others in the race of economic, cultural, industrial and scientific progress. The history is the proof.
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