Post 8: Psychology of Fashion

   

Yes of course if there will be "Psychology of Cosplay", there should also be "Pscyhology of Fashion". Why? Simply because we want to let the readers be aware of the effects of small things in our lives that we don't get much of time to do research. We all want to know why people wear whatever they're wearing. There are some people who wear too short skirts, jacket even when the sun is too high or almost nothing (some, yes).

     Upon my research regarding this matter, an article entitled "Fashion Psychology" which I believe to be the author is Karen herself, by karenpine.com tells about how  fashion affects our everyday life. What we actually wear manipulates the way we move. It has some kind of coordination in between. When someone wears an elegant set of jewelry and a perfect black dress, she will automatically feel so fragile. Whatever we wear makes our body act accordingly to what our clothes want to project. If we try to project a very professional image, then, we have to wear office or business attires. I quote a line from the article that I think gives a better view of what am I trying to say which has been said by the author, " Recent research on enclothed cognition demonstrates a powerful link between a person’s attire and the way they behave, and evolutionary and cognitive psychology can help us to understand the inner drivers for people’s clothing choices, and the effect upon others."

     It is true that what we wear defines us. If we tried to wear something that looks really unprepared, it will damage our credibility. We cannot just put on pajamas if we'll be attending a wedding ceremony. For some especially for higher classes, they chose fashion to express how they protect their credibility. Especially when one is well-dressed.

     Another article that caught my attention is this "What Cognitive Psychology Studies Reveals about Fashion" by G.Moda themselves from gdotmoda.com also shows how style affects the way we project our message to the world. By the use of style and fashion we give them the idea of what we are trying to connect with them. "There has been several investigations using social science approaches into the impacts of fashion on how other people perceive us as a result of the clothes that we wear, especially during the 1980s and 1990s, and quite a few on how we perceive fashions from the perspective of developing virtual simulations of fashions, in the late 1990s and early in the first decade of 2000." said by G.Moda.

     Fashion can be an instrument but it can also be a form of communication to people on how we react based on what we wear. We project different images in the form of what we wear everyday. It can be a professional look, simple, sweet or edgy. But no matter how we make ourselves as canvass, still it is our choice with whatever image we want to paint on ourselves and that's what the people will see.