More and more people are finding it increasingly important to wear fashionable clothes. Is this attitude to wearing clothes a positive development or negative?

A rising number of individuals place more and more importance on having pieces of clothing that are

on trend

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Although

this

tendency may be seen

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at a personal level, I believe it to be negative on a global scale. As our clothes can be considered to be our

second

skin, the importance put on them could be substantiated by the following. For most, it is a matter of self-esteem and freedom of expression to own fashionable outfits. They may express their taste, success and

belonging

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to a particular social layer through wearing particular items of clothing.

Moreover

,

this

interest in

fashion

may later turn into a prospective career path for some people, once they decide to study in

this

domain, and create their own

fashion

labels in the future.

Finally

, there are

also

people who manage to make their passion for

fashion

be a passive source of their income. They are usually celebrities who are paid by a

fashion

brand to appear on

this

brand's garment on social network sites.

Nevertheless

, I consider that

this

perception of clothing could be detrimental at a global level. As the

fashion

stipulates constant changes in preferences,

this

is likely to escalate

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mass production.

Fashion

labels aiming to meet

this

augmenting demand could close their eyes to the unsustainable origin of their fabric.

This

may in turn give a

further

rise to a number of sweatshops in developing countries where workers are underpaid and forced as well as child labour is applied. The

last

but not the least victim of

this

process is our environment. While the human footprint stemming from food and transport has been already affecting both flora and fauna devastatingly,

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clothing production at large scales would only exacerbate

this

problem. In conclusion, despite the positive sides of owning fashionable clothes at an individual level,

this

is, in my opinion, a complete negative development from a global perspective.