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Bet you Look Good on the Dancefloor! Where Fashion Meets fun
15th Sep 2008
WHAT STYLE DO YOU BRING TO THE DANCEFLOOR?
From Indie to Rock, Dance to House, R & B to Drum and Bass, there are enough choices bombarding our music scene to suit everyone’s eclectic taste.
Like music we find ourselves a victim to following the fashion industry and its ever changing cycle.
The merging of the two industries together, especially over the past few decades, enables us to see how they inspire each other. More closely how fashion and its many trends inspire our own individual music taste.
When looking back over the previous decades, when fashion and music spun into the social phenomena that it has become today, we can see how the different types of music in the eighties started to generate this whole stereotypical form of fashion.
The Punk genre elevated its followers into wearing anything from studded belts to thick heavy chains. In conjunction, The “Disco Scene” lured people into the whole bright coloured fashion trend with women in particular wearing Ra-Ra skirts and legwarmers.
These two music trends in particular have continued and evolved into the 21st century, but there are still popular eighties icons around today who have a large fan base, for example Madonna and Kylie Minogue. They have successfully transformed from pop idols in the eighties to a more stylish image to date. So music and fashion trends don’t have to die completely they can be reborn and increased into bigger and better things today.
Looking at the eighties it seems fashion was much more structured, making it easier to determine what genre of music a certain individual was into. Today we find it is still similar, but fashion has become much more diverse making it harder to distinguish a particular type of music.
People can still be seen as “fashionable” when following the trends or not. Fashion and music have become more individual.
When shopping in certain retail shops, they all seem to have a distinctive genre of music playing when looking for the latest bargain.
Topshop tend to stick to a more indie genre with some uplifting house, in comparison River Island is more dance and pop orientated which says a lot about the clothes they try to sell. With River Island concentrating their selling point on party dresses and Topshop selling more vintage chic. Therefore I feel consumers are guided more, without realizing it!
A particular question caught my eye recently, “what will you wear to impress to find your Mr Right”. The answers to this question were whittled down to certain types of music genres of today that a so called “indie boy”, “posh boy”, “sporty boy” and “well groomed boy” would like his lady to wear. Well groomed boys as an example are said to like a girl who takes care of herself and wears clothes that show a lot of flesh with an interest in R & B music.
This all leads us to assume that the style you take to the dance floor is not just a fashion statement it’s to woo that all important type of man.
Article by Chloe White for Skiddle.com ©
From Indie to Rock, Dance to House, R & B to Drum and Bass, there are enough choices bombarding our music scene to suit everyone’s eclectic taste.
Like music we find ourselves a victim to following the fashion industry and its ever changing cycle.
The merging of the two industries together, especially over the past few decades, enables us to see how they inspire each other. More closely how fashion and its many trends inspire our own individual music taste.
When looking back over the previous decades, when fashion and music spun into the social phenomena that it has become today, we can see how the different types of music in the eighties started to generate this whole stereotypical form of fashion.
The Punk genre elevated its followers into wearing anything from studded belts to thick heavy chains. In conjunction, The “Disco Scene” lured people into the whole bright coloured fashion trend with women in particular wearing Ra-Ra skirts and legwarmers.
These two music trends in particular have continued and evolved into the 21st century, but there are still popular eighties icons around today who have a large fan base, for example Madonna and Kylie Minogue. They have successfully transformed from pop idols in the eighties to a more stylish image to date. So music and fashion trends don’t have to die completely they can be reborn and increased into bigger and better things today.
Looking at the eighties it seems fashion was much more structured, making it easier to determine what genre of music a certain individual was into. Today we find it is still similar, but fashion has become much more diverse making it harder to distinguish a particular type of music.
People can still be seen as “fashionable” when following the trends or not. Fashion and music have become more individual.
When shopping in certain retail shops, they all seem to have a distinctive genre of music playing when looking for the latest bargain.
Topshop tend to stick to a more indie genre with some uplifting house, in comparison River Island is more dance and pop orientated which says a lot about the clothes they try to sell. With River Island concentrating their selling point on party dresses and Topshop selling more vintage chic. Therefore I feel consumers are guided more, without realizing it!
A particular question caught my eye recently, “what will you wear to impress to find your Mr Right”. The answers to this question were whittled down to certain types of music genres of today that a so called “indie boy”, “posh boy”, “sporty boy” and “well groomed boy” would like his lady to wear. Well groomed boys as an example are said to like a girl who takes care of herself and wears clothes that show a lot of flesh with an interest in R & B music.
This all leads us to assume that the style you take to the dance floor is not just a fashion statement it’s to woo that all important type of man.
Article by Chloe White for Skiddle.com ©
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