Have you ever asked yourself the difference of man from the rest of the world? Men and women are head and shoulders above the animals and plants because the former are the only ones with dignity. It is not a surprise then to see a hungry dog go after a rotten food, but not with a human being. People will also naturally protest if a cadaver were to be violated.
The protection of our dignity is manifested in the way we take care not only of our souls but also extends to our bodies. Our bodies share in the personal dignity and express it. The human body cannot be reduced to a thing, to a mere physical body. It is the body of "someone", of a person, and not of "something." This consideration is also closely related to the respect we want to preserve. It requires protecting the intimacy of the body as a sanctuary that is exclusively one's own. Clothing keeps the body within the confines of one's intimacy and safeguards it from being manipulated. Thus, when we don on tight-fitting and cleavage-revealing clothes we can say that we are wearing dishonest clothes. They are fashion articles that prevent people from seeing both the external and internal beauty we possess.
Fashion, more than anything else, is all about who we are. The question then that might serve useful to us is this – “Who am I?”
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