Fashion is something we deal with everyday. Even
people, who say they don't care what they wear, choose clothes every
morning that say a lot about them and how they feel that day.

What influences our choice of clothes is an interesting
question. I believe that most of the people do not follow the fashion
displayed on the catwalk. That kind of clothes is the product of famous
high-class designers' work, it is more often very extravagant and
extremely expensive. It is also not designed to be worn every day, but
it is suitable some special occasions.

However, we definitely get fashion ideas from music
clips, videos, books and television. Movies also have a big impact on
what people wear. For example it is known that more sunglasses were
sold in America after the movie Man In Black. Sometimes a trend is
world-wide. Back in the 50-s teenagers everywhere dressed like Elvis
Presley.

Musicians and other cultural icons as well as political
and royal figures have always influenced what we are wearing.
Newspapers and magazines reported on what Hillary Clinton was wearing
when she was the 1^st lady. The death of Princess Diana was a severe blow to the high fashion world, where her clothes were daily news.

Depending on their attitude towards clothes and fashion, people can be divided in three groups:

fashion slaves, spending all their money on the latest clothes even if they don't look good in them;

fashion fans, who enjoy wearing modern clothes but not obsessed by them

and

people who just don't care how they look.

Personally I place myself between fashion fans and
people who don't care how they look. Although I enjoy shopping very
much and like to try things on, especially when I look good in them, I
don't spend much time choosing and buying clothes. And of course I do
it only when I really need something new to wear, and not in order to
kill time.

My style and the range of clothes that I have are
defined by the activities I engage in. Work occupies most of my time
and therefore most of the clothes that I have corresponds with the
dress code, registered in the policy of our company. According to the
dress code, an employee is not allowed to wear certain items of
clothing to work. For example, men are supposed to wear ties and
business suits, and nobody is allowed to wear jeans, except on Fridays.
Women's clothes are not supposed to be skin-tight, too short and too
open. All of the shirts are supposed to have collars. Clothes also
can't be too bright, the colors should correspond to the corporate
colors - dark blue and white.