American Culture Class: Fashion and Dressing Styles

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There are many kinds of fashion and dressing styles along the world. Undoubtedly Fashion, intrinsically represents and reflects basic aspect of different cultures along the world including behaviors, art notions and beliefs.

First of all, behaviors along the world definitely determine the kind of fashion that predominates in an area. For example, in indigenous culture, hunting activities are very important; hence they need to use special kinds of cloth such a boots. For indigenous it could be more attractive or fashionable using boots than sneakers.

Art notion are also involved in the way in which a specific culture dresses, for example, for Chinese people red color is very important in their art, that is why a red dress could be a predominant color in a formal woman event in China.

Finally, beliefs are a very important aspect that modifies the fashion of a place; for example, in South Arabia people believe that women should not show their hair to strange people; therefore they have to wear a scarf that covers their heads. Those scarves have become a very important part of their dressing styles, so now; they wear them in different colors and in different materials.