Be Exploratory

In the section of my website or gopherhole, whichever you like, entitled apocrypha, I “jotted” this note a few days ago: Fashion is the imposition of the aesthetics of a figured few onto the sheeplike masses. It overrides and sometimes completely obliterates the personal aesthetic of an individual. The “obliteration” part is a bit more nuanced, methinks. I do believe that anything born of marketing, of which fashion is certainly, is purposely created to impose its aesthetic. That is its reason to exist. It proliferates. It takes the reins of opinion in those who are either easily swayed or generally undecided. Does it obliterate, however? I “jotted” another note into my apocrypha a few minutes afterwards: Aesthetic preference can be simply the superficial manifestation of yearning to belong to a peer group. In this sense, it makes little sense to call said aesthetic preference “one’s own”. In this sense, fashion (or any marketed asthaetic) can, indeed, obliterate an aesthetic that…

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