FASHION TODAY as written by Toyin Odedele in 2005. Can you relate with it today?

Fashion is the manner of doing or making something.  The word manner ion its own means “way in which a thing is done or happens”.
This tells us that fashion is inevitable in our day to day life, we shall be looking at the dress sense for a start.  The dress sense does not have to do with clothes alone, the face make-up, hair dressing, shoes, bag and belt fittings are inclusive of the dress sense.  The dress sense has to do with, these things listed below.

FACTORS IMPORTANT IN HAVING A GOOD DRESS-SENSE

(1) Colours 

(2) Dressing for weather 

(3) Affordable, simple and neat

(4) My dressing and my appointment.

We will be looking at these factors one after the other.  Let’s start with the colours.

COLORS
Colors can be said as substance that makes something red, blue, yellow, black etc.

Colour is to make something coloured rather than just black white, or plain.

How to dress in a stylish colourful fashion: The major thing you have to be used to is to be able to match the colours together in order to come out beautiful.  If one colour matches another it looks attractive together because of the similarity in the colors

HOW TO MATCH COLORS:
Picture yourself in a black pant, pink belt, pink bag, pink nice shoes, pink ribbon or rose which is in fashion now or another attractive ribbon to make you different from the crowd and a black fitted shirt with a pink bead or just a simple neck chain/lace with a simple earring or the colour of either of the two colors.  Many compliments would be heard from different people because the colour combinations are perfect.

Try to have different colours like: Blue, turquoise blue, deep blue, brown, beige, cartoon color, burgundy, black, nice shade of lemon, fucial pink, violets etc.

Try to get some uncommon colours like lemon fucial pink, navy green for clothes, bags, belts and shoes, you could mix it in a nice way that will get peoples attention.

For NATIVES Attires: fashion has gone deeply nowadays it doesn’t have to be the normal ‘Iro and buba’.  You can get a permanent good seamstress that is fashion wise with lots of styles.  Native does not have to do with old people, its meant for both young and old peoples, old folks could be dressed up in beautiful native colour with sweet styles and look younger than age.

Native fabrics or local fabrics like Ankara, Adire, Aso oke also called Ofi, Aran etc.  These fabrics has different beautiful colours and styles that brings out the beauty in you.  Nowadays, you can use them for different trendy wears made by seamstress or a fashion designer, it could be dinner dress, flapy skirt and blouse, shirts, trousers, bubu etc with distinct colours like navy green, any shade of blue, wine, purple etc.

CONCEPT OF COLOURS:

❖ Knowing how to use colours in an expert way

❖ Having a general idea in colours

❖ Understanding the best colour to use for different occasions, seasons, place etc.

❖ Coming out beautiful, in matching colourful attires.
To be continued.......

Written by ODEDELE TOYIN ©2005