The term “fashion” is frequently used in a positive sense, as a synonym(同义词) for glamour(魔力,魅力) and style. In this sense, fashion is a sort of communal (公有的)art, through which a culture examines its notions of beauty and goodness. The term “fashion” is also sometimes used in a negative sense, as a synonym for fads(一时的风尚,短暂的狂热), trends, and materialism. Fashions are social phenomena(现象) common to many fields of human activity and thinking.
Fashion in clothes has allowed wearers to express emotion or solidarity with other people for millennia(一千年). Modern Westerners have a wide choice available in the selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to wear can reflect that person’s personality or likes. When people who have cultural status start to wear new or different clothes a fashionable trend may start. People who like or respect them may start to wear clothes of a similar style. Fashions may vary significantly within a society according to age, social class, generation, occupation and geography as well as time. If, for example, an old person dresses according to the fashion of young people, he or she may look ridiculous in the eyes of both young and old people.
第一段The term fashion usually applies(应用;申请.) to a prevailing (盛行很广的,普通的)mode of expression, but quite often applies (应用;申请.) to a personal mode of expression that may or may not apply(应用;申请.) to all. Inherent(内在的,固有的) in the term is the idea that the mode will change more quickly than the culture as a whole. The terms “fashionable” and “unfashionable” are employed to describe whether someone or something fits in with the current (趋势)popular mode of expression.
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