When Fashion Takes The Wrong Way

Most youth are yet to realize that there is more to decency. Skimpy wears, nude dressings and sagging have become the order of today’s fashion.

Little do they know that it exposes them to sexual harassment and depicts irresponsibility. It is said that the way you dress shows who you are and determines the manner of approach to you. If you are not a prostitute and you dress like one, people will definitely address you as a prostitute. Similarly, if you are not a criminal and you dress like one, obviously, people’s eyes will be on you.

It is sad that some parents are the ones encouraging these. Most Fashion Designers are sometimes not helping matters at all. Why unveil designs neither they nor their children would wear? Are nude dressing in fashion part of civilization? The activities of Fashion Designers should be checked by the Government.

University is another factor that promotes this indecent manner of dressing, it is sad that some lecturers in some of our various institutions permit any kind of dressing code into their lecture hall. Yes, it is a university and everybody has his/her own life to live the way they want. But they are still student. So a student should dress like a student when coming from lecture and not dressing like a party order. If some parents could not pass such conduct to their children, institutions should help as they are citadels of learning.

Worse still, is the negative impact of electronic and social media: Entertainment. No doubt that the birth of technology and social media have brought about transformation and globalization in our country and the world at large. But it has done more harm than good in our society.

Let us stand up now and say a big "NO" to indecent dressing. Our styles would still be complimentary when we dress right. Africans are not known to expose it all at once, we embraced this foreign culture, we could still reject it. IF it is learned, it could also be stopped.

Lets promote our heritage as Africans!