Writer Anna DeBord encourages a closer look into the politics behind clothing.
Fashion is a form of expression, a way to take one’s ideological beliefs and turn them outward-facing. It allows one to wear their heart not only on their sleeve but on their shoes, their shirt and in their hair.
Globally, people can now dress themselves in whatever fleeting style strikes their fancy, with incomprehensible amounts of fast-fashion available only a mouse click, child laborer or underpaid delivery driver away.
While accessibility through the internet isn’t inherently negative, it inadvertently strips subcultures and identities of their ideological significance,
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