Poem- “How Fashion Should Give to Elegance”

“How Fashion Should Give to Elegance”

True or false.

“You can always shop for products of elegance with a fashionable style.”

Is this true?

Well, let’s look at a classic history book and find out.

I have a book with the name “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”.

It’s a famous history book.

The author of this book was Edward Gibbon.

You probably know this classic historian.

I’m going to page 28 in my version from D. M. Low. 

During his history writing, he suggested a description of elegance and said,

“Under the Roman empire, the labour of an industrious and ingenious people was variously, but incessantly, employed in the service of the rich. In their dress, their table, their houses, and their furniture, the favourites of fortune united every refinement of conveniency, of elegance, and of splendour, whatever could soothe their pride, or gratify their sensuality.”

Okay…

Where is the Roman Empire?

Now it’s gone, obviously.

And, fashion was always coming and going in history, with or without Rome.

So, this means:

We cannot always shop for products of elegance with a fashionable style.

Some fashionable styles are not elegant.

At times, we need to “interrupt” a fashionable style with a reasonable doubt.

And, when we have reasonable doubts, we need to give justice to improvements.

Or else, everybody will only excuse themselves from the focus and say,

“It’s my style.”

That’s not very mannerly to strength of good judgement, to say the least.

Eventually, we will need to update elegance with care of logic for modern ethics.

So, for that reason…

Nobody is able to make their fashion endless and ageless for future generations.

That never works.

Age never disappears from history.

Infants will exist when we are here; infants will exist when we are elsewhere.

Elegance changes according to history, not according to personality.

Yes, I love individuals I get along with, but our present life will move around us.

Life will change; and, so, fashion and elegance will change.

People will even change their “change” throughout history.

For this reason,

The true/false statement from the top of my poem is false.

We cannot always achieve elegance with current fashion.

From my consideration of history, I say we need to “push and pull” fashion into elegance.

Fashion often does represent our overreach into popularity.

To experience the best elegance, you may need to “spread out” and step back from fashion.

Does maximum fashion exactly equal maximum elegance?

Or, are people with “fashion” making too many mistakes and errors?

Maybe, instead of looking for “fashion” right away, you need to study elegance first.

I think that would help.

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