Why I Love Fashion

Goodness, I’ve Missed This

I’m back, hello hello!

When I stopped writing this newsletter two weeks ago, I did not predict how much I would miss it.

In the last two weeks, I’ve caught myself writing subject lines in my head, saving new designers in my bookmarks, making plans to visit a coffeehouse named Caffeine Couture, just so I can write there, and so on.

Without realizing it, Cross Couture had become a lot of things to me: an anchor for my day, like journaling or gym visits are to other people, an outlet for the spinny things in my brain, and a way to explore the world by reading more books and noticing patterns around me.

Recently, I’ve been thinking more and more about why, despite all my efforts, fashion has never exactly left my brain. Over the last twenty-odd years of my life, the answer has evolved. The roots remain the same, but my love gains more branches, more dimensions.

Why I Love Fashion

As you’re reading this, there is a 90% chance you are wearing clothes (although I don’t know how you roll). Fashion is a constant in our lives - not only is it a need, but it extends to so much more.

We want it to protect us from the heat and cold, but it’s also a great way of signifying culture, wealth, status, personality - so many of us want to be different, but not TOO different.

In fact, we find evidence of personal style in the Stone Age, with skeletons buried with necklaces and bracelets. The human urge to express oneself is eternal.

Clothing is a need that’s always with us. We wear clothes for at least 23 out of 24 hours in the day. Nothing else compares: food is a great signifier of fashion, body, and culture, but we can’t eat 24 hours a day. Shelter is great, but you don’t carry your house on your back.

In contrast, everywhere you go and whatever you do, you carry art, architecture, and technology on you, in the form of the clothing you wear.

People wear approximately 4 different outfits in a day: a workout outfit, officewear, at-home sweats, and night-time wear.

Now, add in any outings or dates, and you may have 5-6 different outfits in a day that need to be functional, expressive, and within your budget - how can you NOT be fascinated by the language of clothing?

You’re subscribed to this newsletter, so my guess is that you’ve thought about these things too - what fashion says about you and what it says about the world you live in (you’ll always catch me zipping up a coat over my sports bra when I leave the gym - a signal of the times in which we live!).

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xoxo,

Simran