Whenever I feel bored or sad or down, I usually turn towards my wardrobe, I’ll start dressing up.
Weirdly when I do my own fashion show for fun infront of my mirror, somehow my mood does change.
Is this fashion therapy?
Does this exist?
misunderstandings?
Is it the same as retail therapy?
mental health?
There are so many questions and misunderstanding surrounding this topic, people are very unaware in some sort.
I was going through the Instagram page of a very well know Indian fashion designer Sabyasachi,
where I came across this post they had posted about how people, ‘women’ to be precise, use fashion for their self therapy where sometimes they hide a huge piece of themselves behind that piece of big zhumkaas.
There were many agreements and disagreements as well.
This blog is based upon the same topic and questions surrounding it. Views I have about this “fashion therapy” and whether is it true or pointless.
This photo does not belong to me
The man has correlated mental health with fashion,
reading the post we understand that he was bullied as a child and took comfort in fashion.
so, do you think this helps? as per Mr sabyasachi, it did help in his case.
He States that women, not only today but since a very long time have found comfort in clothes, jewels in a way of expressing or hiding themselves.
IS THIS FASHION THERAPY?
I think as a normal human being, whenever you see yourself in the mirror, you see the reflection of your mind, your soul so when you wear that favourite top of your’s, you smile because you like what you are seeing in that mirror.
Not only women, but all possible gender.
How we feel is directly associated with how we dress up.
for example, some days I feel lazy and tired, and if that day I have an outing or some work,
I don’t dress up glamorously, in fact I dress really low and reflect my inner feeling.
In the same scenario I may dress up real good, put on my favorite skirt and blouse and my red lipstick to uplift my mood.
This is how we use clothing to express our self.
now isn’t that therapy?
Fahion therapy, as the name suggest is to use fashion as a way to make yourself feel more centered, oneself and satisfied by dressing the way you want and the way you wanna express yourselves.
DOES IT EXIST?
As I stated in my previous paragraph, we all do it consciously or unconsciously.
Everyday from dresses to jeans, shoes to sandals, earrings to Bangles, every thing that we put on reflects our inner self.
So why ignore the fact that people do use fashion coarsely as meditation.
Many times we see people dressing as their own gender but not feeling like themselves. People want to express themselves or maybe also hide their true self.
Whatever it maybe, the way you dress, is what you feel. Tired, sad, happy, fun, experimental and many more emotions are attached to that pair of jeans, earrings or lipstick.
The pink haired lady you saw on street, the girl with numerous piercings, the women with fabulous hairdo, the guy with amazing pair of heels, and every other person wearing those elements that maybe weird for someone else, but for them, it’s truly, utterly and completely them.
That is how they feel centered, how they feel more satisfied and more like themselves.
now tell me, is this not therapy?
MISUNDERSTANDING
I would like to clarify my self, I am definitely not saying as people want to dress themselves in certain way to always make themselves seem happy or make themselves feel accepted, it definitely differs from person to person. Many a times people do it just for fun and experimentations, but isn’t it a state of mind as well?
I sometimes don’t feel like my self in the shirt that I wear every other day, so I try something new. I would add a different style or different clothing or any accessories, something to make me feel new, that does not mean that I have completely changed my outlook.
Many misunderstandings surround this topic and instead of defending those misunderstandings, we should clear them, on a personal as well as public point of view.
RETAIL THERAPY
Retail therapy contains hardcore shopping to free thyself from unwanted thoughts. This sentence sounds weird, isn’t it? But this is absolutely true. People do go on a shopping spree to be thought free, stress free and why not!
Retail and fashion therapy are two sides of the same coin. They serve the same purpose in different manner. They both serve your mental health.
MENTAL HEALTH
Every one in the world knows what being sad is and every person has different way to tackle it.
Every personal therapy contains that “me time”, no shit right?
I believe fashion serves a greater purpose than just the walk down the runway, clothes or glam.
–Ankita jha
“BE WHO YOU ARE AND DO WHAT YOU LOVE UNAPOLOGETICALLY”
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