Tekstilna industrija (Jan 2021)

Expression of personality through dressing

  • Efremov Jordan,
  • Kertakova Marija,
  • Dimitrijeva-Kuzmanovska Vangja

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5937/tekstind2101028E
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 69, no. 1
pp. 28 – 35

Abstract

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Clothing and fashion allow the multiplication of multiple personalities into one human being. The tendency to be "someone else", even if it is only with some detail in the clothes, is based on the possibility of transformation of the individual. That transformation is done by masking man, more precisely, the aspiration of one person to transform at least for a short period of time. The possibilities offered by fashion, that a person can be someone else with the help of clothes, cosmetics or make-up are really great. One of the most important functions of clothing and apparel is to achieve a sense of spiritual balance. In fact, with the help of clothing, certain shortcomings of a person are compensated and, in that way, a certain psychological balance is achieved. The extent to which following fashion reduces the feeling of inferiority is seen in the fact that in most countries fashion is most closely followed by young people and immigrants, because it seems to them that dressing according to the latest fashion equals them with others.

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