Blog 2.2 - Psychology of Fashion [Izzah] Gr12

The Psychology of Fashion, Colours

Today in class we began our lesson with an unfinished quardle and continued on our previous topic, whereby we discussed the psychology of fashion. While last week each of us provided a summary of our given text, this week we reviewed and were able to fully discuss our opinions and thoughts on these very important matters. Our main discussion focused on Williams's paper which discussed the sociology behind the colours of uniform. After his brief outline on his paper, Miss Disa gave us a kind of psychological activity wherein each of us would write on a blank paper the emotions that come up in our minds when she says a specific color, like for example, "red", I think it is associated with passion, love, hate. So yeah, it was very interesting to hear each and every one's perspective and connotations to different colors. Ms.Disa mentions that our perspectives may all be nurtured in the environment and culture in which we tend to grow. I find it surprising how for example, Ayse and I have different answers when it comes to love. She associated love with pink, which in my interpretation, perhaps to her love is a more innocent, pure, soft version while I mostly see love in red, suggesting my perspective on love may be more aggressive and bold. How you connotate different colors is interesting and I think should be studied more.

 

Uniforms

Our next discussion focused on the topic of uniforms. Uniforms are something very familiar to us in school, which is why so many of us in the class were able to fully voice out our opinions on it. Most of us mention how it is not the fact that we don't agree about uniforms but it is how it looks. In my opinion, I really agree on this subject. I don't have any problems with wearing uniforms, I think it gives the school order and prevents any judgment in the way a person dresses. I think it also allows students to focus more on their studies instead of worrying about what they are wearing, it creates a safe environment, free of physical judgments among students. However, I think the issue is mostly the design and quality of the uniform, like Ayse mentions she often does not feel very comfortable in the uniform. If you observe the higher grades, most of us tend to cover up our uniforms with other clothing such as the blue school jacket, to cover up the polo. I don't really feel great getting up and having to wear something I don't think fits me. It sometimes really demotivates me and often times my effort decreases. A way I usually motivate myself is when I am wearing something nice, it gives me the power to do more work, feel more comfortable, and not be able to worry about how unpleasant or musty I look. I mean it is only my opinion, but I'm sure a lot feel the same as I do as it becomes a conversation that comes up once in a while in our student talks.