Week 5 Personal Reflection Essay

In the first place, I would like to say that I consider comfort as the most important element of my dress. All the clothes and the accessories I have should make me comfortable. Therefore, beautiful clothes are not my first choice but the comfortable clothes.

In some degrees, I am a Buddhist. However, I do not thing my religion have some influence on my dressing. I am a person who decorates myself based on my emotions and my favorite colors. I would like to introduce my way to pick and arrange my clothes in the following paragraphs.

In my closet, red is the main color. I have a lot of red clothes in different styles and for different seasons. For instance, the warm red coat, the pretty red sweater, and the red cute dress are three of my favorite clothes in the closet. Other popular colors of my closet are blue, green, and pink. All as you noticed, all the colors of my clothes are bright colors. From my point of view, bright colors give me power and energy. I like the feeling when I wear clothes in bright color. I would like to say red means passion. I believe that red could give me good emotions and I am full of power and confidence when I wear my red clothes. Green is the color to make me peace. When I have so much pressure from schoolwork, green clothes let me calm down and find the ways to go through the obstacles. In addition, pink and blue are the two of the light colors. Light blue and pink seems clean and comfortable for me and for people around me. In a word, colors in one of the important element when I choose the adornment and clothes.

Over years, my taste of colors does not change a lot. I still choose the bright colors and colors that make me comfortable. However, there is one thing I need to say. When I was young, I would like to choose the clothes that are look like fancy. For instance, the clothes may have some decorations on it or one clothes may have several colors on it. While as time went by, I prefer simple clothes in my favorite colors. Therefore, most of my clothes are one-piece dresses and simple coats. I think I would never choose the complicated clothes.

My family is a conservative family in some degrees. My father does not allow me to wear some sexy clothes no matter where I am. I need to always pay attention to this requirement. In addition, bright colors are also my family’s favorite colors. My father does allow my family members to wear pure black or white clothes or shoes as well as the hair decoration and some accessories. Because in my father’s view, pure black and pure white are the colors for the funeral, it is not welcome to wear the funeral colors. I have to say that my father does not have some discrimination on the funeral. What I said in this paragraph is just my father’s own belief and he just thinks it is better to different the color of daily clothes with the funeral clothes. 

From my point of view, the core belief of my peer community is energy and expression. Most of my peers have their favorite basketball or football players or teams. They would like to express their love and passion of a team or a person through the clothes with the team’s logo or player’s name. What’s more, some of my peers have their favorite brand. It is easy to notice that almost everything on his/her body is from the same brand. In addition, some of my peers wear black clothes all the time in a year in different style to show that he could not love the color black more. Therefore, I thought expression is the core belief of my peer community. Everyone would like to let people around him/her to know the things he/she loves and share the information with everyone. I also noticed that several friends are big fan of piercing. They have different piercing on their months or ears and wear some accessories that are related to their religions.

In the end, I think the diversity of dressing is just like the diversity of art. Everyone have his/her own understanding about what to wear and put on. The way people choose to decorate their body just shows their believes. There are no two people have the same way to wear. Everyone have the rights to express their own thought in the way he/she wants. 

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