Media influence on fashion seems to appear every and anywhere people go today. From the gym’s to the fast food drive thru’s media is a strong influence. Media seems to affect the way we feel about ourselves and our personality. You could almost lose confidants in one’s self by not upholding these media appearance standards. Media, through TV, magazines and movies have altered what we drive and what we eat, how we look and how we act and how we feel about ourselves placement in society.
TV commercials and magazine ads seem convinced that what they sponsor and publish is the only way to get into society. We see all the newest vehicles with high prices portrait as whats needed to fit in, when only a wast population possess the finances to purchase these cars, trucks and mini vans. Is it possible media just wants to show its audience whats available or does it give the impression that people are not as good a person because they drive a 5 year old car. I also believe people make health choices with the influence of medias help as far as enjoying a full three coarse meal or stick to a salad. The decision consists of thin and fit in or regret an enjoyable meal because the extra pound media’s fashion say is unacceptable.
People chase this ideal personality media says is sexy, hot and healthy. We try to look like the “in trend,”which in 2010 seems to be a cold vampire sense style. Does this look and attitude really attract us or do we want so badly to fit in that we alter our true and natural feelings to please other people? It is this same vampire look known as “heroin” media also jesters is healthy, when if you were to just hear the word, -heroin-, the last thought for most would be healthy if ever at all. Along with the cold, so called sexy, vampire style come an additional which could almost be unsociable except with other vampire styled compadres.
So wear does the media market place people with or without the style that is in or out. In a collaboration of short stories called, 50 essays, Susan Bordo explains media’s strengths as she wrote “this ideal of the body beautiful has largely come from fashion designers and models” (page 86), which I strongly agree with considering one day Calvin klien (clean cut) next day Edward Collins (vampire) because magazines say so. So does this factor into the way we feel about our selves, if we do not fit in these description of media’s thin or hot look? People often agree with media and their point of views, but is media saying the rest of the world is ugly cause we all don’t look like media says we should. Some readers would argue by saying that the media is right when it suggest to aim to be fit and I could also agree with that to a curtain point, however when the implication is the fashion in magazines is the only manner of respectable living I alter my perception of what is right and what is simply not fair.
Being a younger adult in society I would most definitely disagree with what all the fashion media through TV, magazines and movies says is sexy. All to often commercials feature women so thin they look fragile and not attractive to myself. I don’t believe media should imply that you as a person is not beautiful, handsome or worthy of a high self confidence just because you don’t see your own body style on TV. I think media should open its variety not shut down one style or another, but reach out to shapes styles and attitude to comport all people. I believe that would bring in a new barrier of civilization t where everyone is happily excepted.
