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Fashion & Culture

The biological nature of society is an explicit uniform regardless of its geographical attendance. Reality of life is an absolute constant for every living grouping. Basic necessities inevitable for living ones to continue life is yet another common. The principle of disjoints and differences, consequence of which is the most successful classification of humans, however starts from another perception the culture of masses. Every human society is characterized by certain set of parameters that are evident essence of it. A pattern of behaviors belonging to group of individuals when related to specific range of geography cultivates a general term modern world refers to as Culture. Such pattern can be experienced as general impart of archeology, apparels, lingual means of communications, local social arts and handicrafts, set of top of the view beliefs, common goals, combination of median hobbies etc. Pyramids of Egypt, scarfed women from Middle East, Persian Language from old Persia, Islamic Calligraphy, Catholic Christianity, Economic mastery of China and Spanish bullfighting are reflections from the various distinct pattern extracted by individuals of multiple societies. Digging deep to realize further sub classification of Cultures, two distinct patterns are recognized in norm i.e. Eastern World and Western World. The term Eastern World overall depicts geographical zones of Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Far East, Middle East, Central Asia and some portions from Orthodox Christian countries like Russia. Eastern culture pronounces itself boldly by its characteristic aroma of music, edibles, literature and arts. Flute, Sitar, Harmonium and Indian drums are distinguishing to their most as musical instruments. Asian spice has always been a distinct taste of Eastern Food. Firdausi, Confucius and Vedanta literature represents Eastern literature and philosophy. Abrahamic religion Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism are major religions of Eastern world. Indian Sculpture arts, Jewelry and Islamic Calligraphy are specific to Eastern Culture alone. On the other hand, Western world is remarked by its Symphony and Opera music, Western Fast Food, Shakespeare, Keats literature, Marxism and Platos democracy philosophy, Catholic Christianity and Victorian Architecture are salient features of Western Culture. It is important to state here that Western Culture is more Urban oriented as compared to East.

As discussed earlier, culture is a pattern of behavior by group of individuals related to certain geography. The concept of culture however is associated with fairly broad range of time span. Cultural topographies are considered to be distinct when practiced for centuries. European culture, for instance, is a wide set of behavioral patterns portrayed by Europeans for several epochs. The very same behavioral patterns when related to short span of time, gives rise to another concept The Fashion. Fashion being more modern concept in behavioral pattern portrayal, is summarily defined as presently popular trend more confined to clothing, footwear, headwear and other fixtures. The shorter period nature of term present and current restricts Fashion to pretty shorter time and

as a consequence, it is frequently variable within specific culture. Fashion is distinct urban feature and since Western Culture is oriented more towards urbanism, it is bonded strongly with Fashion. Eastern world is more uniform and absence of abrupt change in apparel is somewhat evident there. Apparent reasons are rural majority in East and comparatively less influence of media on society. Fashion in modern world is promoted most via media. Both electronic and print media are sound publicists of Fashion today. Themes like glamour and style has made Fashion easily absorbable by audience. Fashion has successfully grown to extent of discrete Industry where thousands of investors are investing their capital in Fashion Studios, Fashion Events, Chain Outlets of Fashion apparels and advertisement campaigns on media. According to a survey, some 17000 Fashion related jobs existed in 2004 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor). These figures were expected to increase dramatically with the passage of time. Educational aspects of Fashion are being promoted by Fashion Designing courses that are now available in Graduate and Post Graduate study. Since diversity is beauty of social animal, the peak of this beauty is evident in variety of cultures. Based on interaction, society development is purely a human property. Cultures are being induced with shifts resulting in stimulation of new features. Numerous agents are playing their roles in promoting such changes including media, East-West relations, human modernization etc. Fashion being more frequent change within every culture, provides means of positive change that avoids cultural values from getting stagnant for coming generation. Cultural values and Fashion Designing has today attained form of separate domain of research for betterment of human race by bringing different civilizations close to each other, which surely is positive enhancement.

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