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>I swear women's fashion is wasted on women.
Depends on where you are. If you are looking at 18-25 somethings in the city/college, they are just going to wear what is convenient and socially acceptable, because what's the point in prettying yourself up if you can seek validation in other areas, like dating, partying, etc. Back in the day, colleges would have "pretty boys" who did the same thing, but once the expectation fell out, no one kept it up because it was inconvenient.
Fashion is employed increasingly as one's physical appearance or other exceptional features decline, especially among 30 somethings in the workplace forward. While people will pretty themselves up for the sake of it, I would argue that many people do it for the sake of social economics; to add value when it is lacking. If you just have good looks, and you get the validation, it would be convenient to skimp the frills.
On the other hand, because fashion is not so strictly enforced and cultured, women who never really had a sense of self, yet alone a sense of self-aesthetics, will come to think that the yoga pants and sweatshirts are a good mix of cultured and convenient fashion. Its the same reason why I always wear jeans and t-shirts: people of my social class wear the same in almost any situation, so why stand out when you never had that conception in the first place. Surely you prefer the casual, slobby, but normal dress over the immaculate punk-girl, jugallo, hipster, or other subculture which has, at the very least, the preconception of a fashion sense.
As an aside, I feel like when people say women have no fashion sense these days, they do not actually refer to the IRL productions of the fashion industry in the last 50 years, but either:
>1. The pedestrian wear of women back "when they had fashion sense"
>2. Fictional fashion sense which panders to men (including #1), and has only a partial bearing on what women think is good fashion sense, even if they are specifically trying to appeal to men
...which are both cases of comparing the common masses with rose-tinted spectacles.
Despite my previous statement about many people in general having no fashion sense, I think women are more acculturated than ever before, thanks to almost universal media influence, but that modern fashion trends do not appeal to the disenchanted because they are inevitably associated with the modern women, as fashion, deceitfully so, is a human shorthand for categorizing and sorting others into social class, sensibility, and interpersonal compatibility, while hiding the (unfortunate) realities of the person underneath.
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