A few weeks ago we had a test during one of my English lectures. We had to choose from five essay titles, and write around 400 words.. The titles weren't much to my liking so I had to improvise by choosing " 'We are all slaves of fashions' Discuss.". Furthermore, I wasn't in the mood of actually writing 400 words about something that barely interests me, so it ain't one of my best writings.. But anyway, here's what I wrote:

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In today's world, which is fueled by consumerism, it is very likely that most of us are indeed slaves of fashion but I don't think it's fair to say that every single person is. Fashion is an art, which initially, is, supposed to help us express ourselves through the way we look or behave. Unfortunately most of us have got overboard and instead of fashion working for us, we are enslaved by the latest trend.

Those of us who are slaves of fashion would argue that one of the main reasons that they want to keep up with the trend is that they don't want to look worse than others. They want to be the best, the ones that get looked at while walking down the street. I guess this gives them a sense of superiority over others. As if the designer clothes, the expensive accessories and the make-up makes you a batter person than you actually are. This is a fundamental mistake of fashion. Fashion is there to help you express what you are truly from the inside. But the so-called "slaves of fashion" changed this definition to "the latest trends which you can buy with the largest amount of money". I think that these people suffer from a sense of inferiority.

Then there is another group of people who are in the minority that don't give a damn how they look and how they are judged by others for trying not to look mediocre. These people ought to be respected for going against the flow, after all they are just as much persons as others are.

Fashion is not a question of being able to afford something or not. It's a question of doing everything possibly to buy the most expensive products. It is such an unfortunate thing that in today's day and age we have lost the true meaning of the word "fashion".

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Comment by lecturer: "Good - but some ideas could have been developed futher. 7/10".

That's exactly what I thought when I left the classroom.