Low-risers, cheesecloth, and all sizes fit none (Pt 2. cont.)

Again, here is the second installment of Low-risers, cheesecloth, and all sizes fit none. Enjoy.

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“Are you wearing cheesecloth?”
When I enter the shopping mall, with or without a shopping agenda, I usually see one of two things right away; strange clothes or people wearing strange clothes. It is not always the style of clothing I notice, but rather the material their clothing is made of. Recently the texture of fabric has become thinner and thinner while the prices are getting higher and higher. It would be logical to conclude that with the common usage of sweat shop and child laborers companies could use more durable fabrics since they do not really feed or pay their workers. Maybe if the companies did treat their workers humanely they might actually make durable clothing.

The main problem with this fragile clothing is their sheer impracticality. These cheesecloth-like materials do not meet the basic definition of clothing. They cannot keep you warm, sheltered, or even remotely covered. It seems as though the fashion industry is playing a trick on consumers much like the king in the story, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. The only practical use of any of these flimsy clothing items is possibly as a pasta strainer or a door screen. The downfall of using clothing in uncommon ways is the likelihood of such uncomfortable conversations as, “What are you doing with my new Ralph Lauren skirt? …Did you re-cover our lampshade?” or “I do not appreciate you using my $400 shirt as a butterfly net”.

Currently it seems as though this trend of thread-bare, barely there clothing is on the rise. Trends, horrible as they may be, are fine in my opinion, but they are only approved if I am assured that they will fade away and cause mass embarrassment to the trend victims, allowing them to wallow in fashion shame. Only a substantial amount of humiliation inflicted upon the masses will prevent the comeback of horrid trends. There is something about this common trend of virtually nonexistent 'clothing' that troubles me; designers have taken skimpy to the extreme. In fact, it seems that the main demographic of this trend turns out to be young women. This convinces me more and more each day that of all the fashion designers and trend setters in this world, the majority of them are men who went into the fashion designer career so they could further eliminate a difference between fully clothed and nudity.