Then, students carried long fake leather wallets with a pointed comb in their back pockets. It seemed as a rather odd and somewhat outlandish behaviour only restricted to the uncouth and vulgar. Yet, there were many followers of this fashion fad.
Small school bags that were carried high and tight to the body that left little space for anything else other than a few exercise books and a handphone charger or a cd player. It was another fad that left a rather lasting impression on many people.
Hair gelled to a shape of an M. Some even resorted to using hair bands to keep the M shape. The price to pay to keep up fashion fads is rather high. To think that males then would consider using facial wash as something sissy but using a hair band in public to maintain a fad is not. Ironical.
School bags carried low. That's something I enjoyed doing. Not that it gave me a new found identity but it was a way for me to express myself. Yet at the same time, I had always liked carrying my school bags low. It was just me.
Fashion fads are there for people who are insecure of their own identity to follow. While some fads are seemingly cool, yet the more important thing is to be able to find your own identity and be satisfied with your own image. It is no use replicating someone else when deep down, you know that the person you are trying to show others ain't exactly you.
Sometimes it takes more than a physical transformation to make you blend in with the crowd. Sometimes, you need a little sophistication too.
