Conforming to the Ways of the World

Conforming to the Ways of the World

These days, the brand of clothes we wear and the corporate logos that are on clothes, can tell a person the type of people we want to be associated with and where we stand on the social ladder. Children, teenagers, and adults allow themselves to help advertise for fashion designers by wearing corporate logos because wearing these logos gives them a sense of belonging to a certain group of people, social status, or a so-called "in crowd." Corporate logos are the fashion trend for the present, but just like every popular fashion trend in the past, the corporate logo trend will soon no longer exist.

Fashion is a topic that affects people of all ages. From elementary school children to adults, the fashion world has made everyone corporate slaves. Parents dress kids in the latest trends so that their children can be liked by the other kids in their classes. Children are easily influenced by designer clothes because it is the best way for them to be accepted into a social circle of desire. They are also easily influenced by their favorite musician, athlete, and even cartoons. Parents and kids alike, will do whatever it takes to be at the highest social level possible. When the fashion trend changes the next school year, the parents will buy their children a whole new wardrobe, just so their kids can stay at a high social level.

Teenagers, as well as elementary school children, will do anything to be at the top of the social ladder. They go out of their way to be "cool" and well liked. In high school, designer clothes are a way of determining the different groups of people. Teenagers are always competing against each other to be the most popular, and competition is the easiest way for them to determine who supposedly is the coolest person and the teens that belong in the "hip" group of people. Once again, teenagers like the elementary age children, look at their favorite musician, athlete, and so on, so they can be just like them and have all the aspects of the famous life. When teens notice that their idols have stopped wearing corporate logos, teens will move on to the newest trend also.

Most adults do not care as much as teenagers and children care about fashion. The adults that do care about what they wear, however, feel that by wearing clothes that popular and have corporate