Living In the 21st Century (1): A Fashion Statement

Fashion and Style at their Heights

By Louis Egbe Mbua


Since the arrival of the new millennium; there appears to be a psychological shift in every aspect of life that renders men and women to co-exist on the planet. From science to religion, there have been dramatic change of paradigm. In peace and in war, we now live and think differently thannever before. Online education is now a normal occurrence rather than a strange method of pedagogy. Only in the 21st Century and this new millennium can we actually hold up hardened terrorists like Osama Bin Laden, with his urbane looking beard, as a fashion icon. But is he? This article examines the folly and wisdom that go with fashion and style in the first decade of the 21st century and the third millennium:

It is better to be stylish than to be fashionable
Because fashion fades but style stays forever:
A dress worn for show is worse than worn to fit
‘Cause better to fit than to show unstuck and unfit.

A man must not wear a shirt of four colours;
For multiple colours are suited but of women:
The woman with a colourful dress will win
But she who wears white informally has failed.

Black is the new white but brown is for soldiers
And a man looks good in brown but a woman who
Wears combats as a fashion statement is not stylish;
And a man who wears white trousers has no style.

A man of no great height must stay clear of heels
Because it shows fashion insecurity with his looks,
But a woman may wear high heels as long as she is
Not six foot five since she will never find a man in them.

There is no such thing as a small woman since all
Have the same hypnotic powers in similar measure.
Her hand bag must match her dress and hair style
For it is faux pas to have a mismatch in this instance.

No man must nurture long hair unless he is a priest
Or he is into a religious order and in show business
Since men may mistake him for a woman and
Women may classify him as effeminate and weak.

Women & men with long hair should visit the Salon
Each week lest: it looses its natural brilliance.
Short hair style is stylish to both men & women
But it’s unstylish for a woman to be skinned head.

Size zero people must not touch tight trousers
Since this displays angled structures of bones
Rather than curved structures defined by nature
The same applies to size 30s with excess curves.

A good dancer is a delight and a bonus to him:
But better that a bad dancer should not dance at all:
Since this may spoil a social occasion entirely.
Thus if a socialite, you must learn how to dance.

In plastic surgery, only engage to correct a fault
But he who does it for beautification is a fool
‘Cause what you have, was written before time
And plastic surgery can never overcome time.

Beauty is not exuded by the external alone
But what you think inside combines with
The external to make the beauty complete:
Plastic surgery can spoil the whole beauty.

There is a way to walk and move in line
With what you wear as to what you desire.
In fashion dressing, walk with the style of a cat
And the galloping confidence of a horse

The one is meant to compliment the other;
Thus only a fool will try a cat walk at home
Or in the office, for this will be out of place
Since you will not be marked for promotion

A vain woman who strips naked for pictures
Is unwise because she must explain this vanity
To her parents, grandchildren and husband
On why such an extravagant display of vanity

A vain man who strips naked for photographs
Is yet a bigger fool since a man is not exactly
A work of art as compared to the fairer one,
And that fashion without clothes doesn’t exist.

While riches can buy one fashion the same can’t
Be said of style since style exists but in nature.
So while style is real, eternal and supernatural
Fashion is founded on illusion and artificiality.