Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Nature and Fashion

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One would wonder what fashion has to do with nature. Nature is the sum total of a thing; the very qualities and characteristics by which a thing is recognized.

What then is the nature of fashion?

Shall we say that the true nature of fashion is dependent on the person creating her? Maybe not. Fashion, though not restricted to what we put on our body and how that makes us look, has her nature.

In her natural state, fashion is meant to add beauty and style to our dressing and our way of doing things. Over time, people started using fashion to achieve some other purposes. This new approach to fashion completely bastardized her nature and affected her very essence. Once her original and true nature was tampered with, her beauty was gone, and what was left of her was the shadow of her former self.

The beauty of fashion is in its essence which is to add glamour and style to clothing.

What is fashion not?

Someone has once said that on our way to becoming who we must be, we might sometimes imitate people who are ahead of us in the path which we have chosen. We may also need to adjust and re-adjust before we become. But, what happens when we decide to take up another’s image forgetting who we are while hiding under the cover of ‘facial enhancement’? Do we call that fashion too? I hope not.

Fashion does not require us to stop being who we are to become another, it rather requires us to continue being who we are in a unique and beautiful way.

We become better by improving on who we already are rather than trying to become another person.

Friday, 22 February 2019

Fashion and Culture

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Fashion and culture are two sides of the same coin. Talking about one without the other is like going to war with a one-edged sword. The culture of a people is their way of life, the very substance that makes them unique. The fashion of that same people is simply the display of their culture.

As I’ve already pointed out in my earlier posts, if we must appreciate fashion, then we must appreciate people’s way of life – culture. Most times when we talk about fashion, we find ourselves drifting into the culture of a people, making references to that culture, and explaining the aspect of fashion we speak about with the elements of that culture.

Although fashion goes beyond the clothes we put on and the accessories that go with them, it has largely been portrayed using our outfit. Other areas of fashion include dance, ceremonies, rituals, etc.

The beauty of fashion is in its appropriateness to the culture it represents!

Saturday, 27 October 2018

Using Beads on Ankara

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 Let's begin to answer some of the questions people ask when it comes to using beads accessories especially necklaces, bangles, earrings, finger rings, brooches,etc on some kinds of outfit.
There's no outfit that cannot go with a beads accessory, it all depends on how you combine them!

The style and length of the accessory largely depends on the style of the outfit. For instance,a long necklace fits better on a high or round neck outfit, while a short one fits better on a low round or v-neck outfit. This is largely for females! Again, the colour of the accessory is dependent on the colour of the outfit - very important! The colours have to agree! They may not necessarily be the same, but they must agree.

Beads accessories on Ankara, how will it come out? It'll be very nice, I can assure you of that. All you need is the major colour on the outfit, a very simple design which should be short in length preferably, and you're good to go.


Let's rock it!

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

Beads and Fashion

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Fashion has been defined by many according to what suits them and what purpose they hope to achieve. There's no ultimate definition of fashion only a common factor to all definitions - that which appeals to the eyes!

There's more to fashion than just an appeal to the eyes. It includes suitability to occasion, time of day, weather condition and comfort. For any outfit you put on or wishes to go out in, you may need to find out if it meets the above criteria if you want to 'stay in fashion'. This is no hard and fast rule though.
You may wonder what aspect of fashion beads fits into. I'll show you that briefly. Beads is in the very heart of fashion! The stones you have on some of your clothes, what material do you think they are made from? Those designs on your fashion blouses, are they not beads? What about the accessories you put especially on native attires - necklaces, hand bangles, earrings, finger rings, etc? Beads! Have you forgotten about the hand bags and fashion purses you take along with such outfits? Beads! There are fashion foot wears adorned with beads too!

Lemme guess what's running through your mind now - How do I know which beaded accessory goes with what outfit? How do I use such accessories on a multicoloured cooperate dress? Where and how do I get the kind of accessories I really need?

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