Clothing, fashion, your garb, your attire, is the way you represent yourself, visually. We represent ourselves, emotionally, mentally, and physically in the way we move, the way we hold ourselves, the way we interact, act and react with the world around. The two are synonymous. These are visual aspects of us that first impress on a stranger, when meeting and interacting. So much is read in a simple greeting, a handshake, the firmness, the grip, the eye contact, the posture. So much is consciously, and subliminally, interpreted in the way we stand, the way we sit and talk, the way we read each other. Essentially, it is the way we move, socially, through life.
Whatever one wears, one is representing an idea, personal, indirect, direct, and obvious, or figurative. Our clothes protect us and reveal us, literally and emotionally and mentally. We are constantly sending messages about who we are through what we wear and how we wear it, we wear ourselves, if that makes any sense. We send messages through how we move, through body language, through clothing language, and visa versa. These messages are ubiquitous. Even if one is trying to say “I don’t care what I wear, this doesn’t define me” one is dressing that part. And so we move through life, like players upon a stage, maybe a foreshadowing in life? We strut and fret. We are all players, acting a role through clothing and movement, and whether this role is honest, true to who we are, or not, that is left to the individual. Shakespeare was quite the forecaster of his time.
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