My philosophy of fashion (maybe adornment) is that clothe or clothing is made the the purpose of keeping people warm. Personally I don’t have many strong sense of belief of fashion or adornment like other girls do; what I wear is just a simple T-shirt or jeans in spring and summer, and a sweater or coat in fall and winter. But I do concern about the color. I am a superstitious person, and I believe luck is one the most important component of success. Thus when I have to take any exams, I usually will wear yellow or white clothe because these two colors usually give me good luck. Some people may say that this is just a psychological effort which make you feel calm and bring you confidence. I will not deny that, but I think this is the why how “superstition”  works.

Other than color, I do concern about the style of wearing and it is because my parents really care about what to wear and how to choose what to wear based on what kind of events you are attending to. And I think this “theory” works for everyone in the world. For example, when you participate in an interview, probably most of the people will wear suits or formal business suits instead of casual clothe. It shows the attitude that you do concern about this event seriously and show the respect of interviewer siting in from of you. More typical example could be wearing more delight color dress when you attend a wedding party, wearing a academic dress when you attend graduation ceremony…As I said before, choose what to wear is showing the attitude of how you treat a certain event. If you do not care at all, probably you will never spend more than 10 min standing in front of you closet and asking the same question again and again worrying “what should I wear tomorrow?”.

Lastly, I believe that the sense of fashion and adornment will be easily affect my community and the environment you are living. For example, Chinese love to buy and wear luxury (even students) but Americans usually prefer more casual clothe rather than price and brand. The interesting thing is those chinese students who prefer to communicate and make friends with native speakers usually wear like americans do; but those chinese students who love to stick with people who has the same nationality are buying more and more expensive or luxury goods for many reason. I don’t want judge anyone and I don’t like to say those chinese students who like wearing luxury is rating with each other, but there is a phenomenon commonly happening even on campus.

Since I have 3 midterm this week, I spent all my time in library during the weekend and this Monday and Tuesday. There are only few week left for the summer term, and everyone on campus seems extremely busy. Here is what I found by observing people around me.

The first person I observed in library was a female student sitting in front of computer and kept stretching her arms and body. Since it is almost the end of the summer term, I assume that she might feel really exhausted because there are so many tests and assignment needs to be due. Besides that, she was carrying a huge bag with lots of paper and textbooks thus I believe she might be really busy and had lots of review work to do.

The second person I observed was a Asian male student in a Korean food restaurant. He was wearing a hat, with little carrying staff (probably only a wallet and his cell phone) and dressed in a casual style shirts. Since I was really stressful during that time, I assume that he may not take any classes during the summer term or maybe just finished one or more exams, which allows himself to take a break from any tense schedules. Additionally, he looked pretty relaxed when he was talking to the owner of the restaurant in their native language.

The last person I observed was a old man in library. He was standing in from of the computer and check the Bb site for a long time. He was also carrying a huge school bag which looked huge and heavy for me. He was wearing a shirt which has lots of check patterns, but in dark and cold color. I assume that he might be a college student as well even though he looked old because he was checking the website and reading the books in front of the computer; sometimes he did take notes and his facial expression seemed really stressful and serious.

In general, during these 2 weeks, more and more students on campus are wearing relatively darker color clothe than usual. I think it is because of the stress of study. Once I have read an article about how the choice and sense of fashion (including color and style) reflect people’s emotion. It seems that people who are stressful are more likely to choose darker color UNCONSCIOUSLY.. Personally I have never thought about this point but this assignment reminded me this argument and I think it is interesting to point it out and share it with more people.