It seems that there has always been a misconception of what fashion really is and who fashion is for. When I was younger I always felt as if fashion was this untouchable realm reserved only for the super skinny and the extremely wealthy but as I got older I came to realize that this could not be further from the truth.
What most people do not understand is that anyone can be fashionable. Anyone can put an outfit together and have it be wholly unique and wholly their own style. It is not necessary to fit a certain body type or a certain economic sector.
In today’s society we face a lot of pressure to fit certain expectations-expectations put in place by the models that grace the cover of Vogue, Marie Claire, and other fashion magazines. The diets of the women who walk the Valentino and Marc Jacobs runways have become our gospel. We walk past the glass cases in the high end sections of department stores and silently sob over the quadruple figures that mark almost every product. We are so enthralled with the untouchable world of high-end fashion that we forget what fashion truly is.