I am no fashion icon. I’m sorry Lady Gaga I have failed you. Fashion nowadays is about bringing back the 60’s, 70’, 80’s and all that retro what-so-ma-call it and because of this I’ve been scavenging around mom’s old trunk and picking out what to wear.

What is it with fashion? Does it affect a person’s point of view?

During the last weeks of second semester, our English teacher decided to have a film-viewing. It was supposed to enlighten our minds on making narrations and such but we were all in it for the free movie and the free period. It was entitled “Ever After”, A Cinderella story directed by Andy Tennant starring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, and Dougray Scott. It kind of reflects on the reality at the time being and how Cinderella would’ve come to be. Growing up we believed in fairy godmothers, though I always hoped for the pumpkin ride, but in this movie it was portrayed in a somehow adult way. No fairy godmothers, no pumpkin rides, no uplifting curses during 12 midnights. Only Leonardo da Vinci, a carriage that didn’t even came from a pumpkin or even look like one, and instead of uplifting curses, truths were told and secrets were revealed. To top it all off, her wings were torn apart and it was raining. I swear to God, rains have the most awesome timing in movies.

 The setting which I think was in the medieval period where girls wear ball gowns and pajama-like under garments was a time when social gaps were substantial. You are judged by what you wear or you are labeled by what you put on. Here, “Cinderella” or “Danielle” as she was normally called in the movie, dressed up as an aristocrat and pretended to be one to release her maid’s husband who was sold by her step-mother. Danielle, being a servant under her step-mother’s order always wore rugged dresses and had black marks on her face which seems to be dirt and sweat from all the hard work she has to do every day. She met the prince in one of his attempt escapes from his obligations. Danielle seeing a stranger trying to steal their horse quickly threw an apple and hit him right in the head. Did the prince notice her? Did he notice how pretty she was? No. The prince paid him to not say a single word about him and let him borrow their horse. Now the second time they met was when Danielle was all dressed up as an aristocrat and somehow made a spectacle on the castle grounds when she tried to convince one of the man-in-charge to release Maurice, the maid’s husband. Did the prince notice her? Yes, because she was wearing fancy clothes.

In the modern setting, we tend to judge unconsciously. Those who wear most often do most of the judging. It’s not our fault we can’t afford clothes. I mean eating three times a day is a struggle already and in a time of crisis, food is the first necessity, not cover-ups. I’d rather be naked and eat than die from hunger while wearing an Armani dress with my Louis Vuitton bag and a scent of  Coco Chanel No. 5. I don’t blame people who likes to dress-up, I respect them. I just want society to not judge by what a person looks or what they wear. But GAAAAH!—Society is a bitch, and bitches are hard to please.