Problem Solution Essay About Fashion Industry

This essay discusses the problems related to the fashion industry such as body shaming, eating disorders, and the pressure to maintain a certain appearance. It suggests solutions to promote diversity and self-love, and highlights the positive aspects of the industry such as employment and revenue generation. The essay also discusses the history and development of the fashion industry, the different levels of fashion, and the manufacturing process of apparel products.

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Topic – The problems related to the Fashion industry and their solutions
The fashion industry is a kind of industry that serves to meet the demands for apparel
among the trends and fashion oriented people. The fashion industry also determines and dictates
the generation about what should be worn and what should not, to look exceptional among all.
The current development in the fashion thirst among people has given rise to the five distinct
levels of fashion (Alyson, p-250). These levels include the haute couture, affordable luxury
wears, luxury wears, discount clothing and mainstream clothing. The entire process of
manufacturing the apparel product and handing it over to the person who purchases it, is divided
into four basic sectors.
The process starts from collecting necessary goods for the production of the apparel,
creating the apparel, advertising and marketing of the apparel product and ultimately the selling
of the goods. It is well known that the industry solely began in Paris holding the hands of single
garments and turned gradually towards building boutiques aimed at catering to the tastes and
desires of couture clothing. This type of apparels was mainly made by the famous dressmaker
Charles Frederick Worth (Brewer, Gayle and Hunt p-34-40). The luxury wear and also the
affordable luxury wears were developed from the haute couture clothing but could not match the
standard of the uniqueness that couture clothing held. The mainstream clothing was comparably
less marketed because it is a kind of ready-made casual garments also low in expenses. However,
the discount clothing is the most popular and low price ranged clothing. Whatever be the quality,
the low price definitely drives the purchasers towards buying these kinds of clothes.
It is well known that most of the fashions are made from textiles. In the 18th century one
of the most important accomplishments was the spinning and weaving of cotton, wool and other

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natural fibres. The 20th century was the era of highly automated and computer controlled
machinery. It has also been found that there is abundant use of natural fibres as well as the
synthetic fibres to make beautiful clothes. Recently a new term has become so popular, that is
‘sustainable fashion’. It has raised the use of eco-friendly fibres such as hemp. No wonder, it is a
huge industry because every member of the society especially the middle class to upper class
people are highly concerned about the fashion trends of the contemporary world and acquire
theme as soon as possible. It is true that appearing fashionable and trendy is essential for the
formation of an attractive personality, but it is also equally important to know that the fashion
world has so many negative impacts both on the body and mind of an individual.
Being a huge industry, the fashion industry has undoubtedly increased the employment
within the country. It is also helpful for a country to generate revenues by increasing the sales of
the fashion apparels. The country can earn huge profits by the help of exporting the products to
other countries and making the products globally popular. Among the other indirect benefits, it is
helpful in raising the profile of the country regarding creativity and can gain competitive
advantage over the competitors (Gardetti, Angel and Torres). It is supportive of further foreign
investment in a country when the country becomes familiar for its fashion industry. Fashion has
been considered as a universal language known worldwide. It is well understood that when a
fashion interested person meets another fashion interested person, there is an immediate bond
established between those persons based on the common interest. It helps the world to assert a
sense of beauty and aesthetics. It is a means of personal discussion and highly valued as the
highest form of art. One of the best positive part of being fashionable is it builds the self-
confidence.

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It is not that the fashion industry only brings advantages to the country as well as to the
individual personality, there are so many disadvantages too, which are considered as the
‘problems’ of the industry. First of all, it costs huge money to be fashionable. In the struggle to
maintain the standard in the society, people gradually increase their cost of living since it is the
most accepted view that their outer appearance plays a major role in determining the financial
stats the person holds. It is also not unlikely that people get judged more based on what brand
they choose or which style they incorporate. The amount of being criticized as well as envied
also gets increased. The fashion advertisings sometimes overwhelm people and divert their focus
with endless marketing messages.
In the current society, the body image especially the body shape of people, and eating
disorders are intricately interrelated. It is often mis-constructed in the fashion industry. In the
fashion industry the pressure of eating disorder is extremely prevalent because most of the
models are forced to stay slim so that they match the beauty of the outfits they will be clad on.
The reality of the fashion industry is unexpectedly rough and perilous. It has been found from a
latest survey that, 62% off models out of 100% lose weight due to look as an ideal model.
According to the standards of the World Health Organizations, those models are considered
underweight. More than 43 % of those models revealed that they won’t be employed if they do
not maintain the slim figure. 215 of them were literally threatened that they would no longer be
represented as the brand ambassador if they do not lose weight.
One of the major contributor of such tendencies is television. Surveys have found that
80% of the American get highly influenced by the commercials, music, videos, movies who keep
on portraying men and women under a specific light (Janssen, Denise and Paas). This is the main
reason of growing low esteem or low confidence. A perfect woman is always idealized in a way

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who fits in any size dress, with long hair and clear glamorous skin. On the other hand, an ideal
man is always portrayed as having strong muscles, perfect height. The low esteem generated by
watching such visual works results in a sheer eating disorder, especially in those people who are
born with a developing body structure genetically. It is a wrong concept that the eating disorder
affects only women. The truth is men are also equally affected by it. This eating disorder ends in
diseases such as anorexia, bulmia and binge disorder. The younger generation is the most
influenced by such vague trend of staying slim and trim. The impact on them is so much that
almost 35-57% of the adolescent girls start consuming diet pills, run through crash dieting,
excessive fasting and tend towards self-induced vomiting.
In this regard, the issue of getting g affected by Anorexia has to be discussed. It is a
major result of endless proportion of eating disorder due to body shaming. It has come up as a
matter of concern within the society. The media and also the western society has elaborated the
fact that thin people are the most accepted in society because they look the most attractive. The
society does not concern about what impact it will put on the current generation who are the
most sensitive and vulnerable. The society does not concern about their physical health or
mental statement; it just imposes the idealized version of physical stature.
However, the modern world is changing. It is heading towards knowing and
understanding the after effects of such idealization of the fashion industry. It has been suggested
that there is nothing wrong with having diet plan, staying cool and fit and looking beautiful. The
problem is when people start taking it as a challenge and the physical health gets the most
tortured on (Rodgers, Rachel et al. p- 284-292). Anorexia is a disease caused by eating disorder
which is also known as Anorexia Nervosa. It can be diagnosed at home because there is an

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excessive loss of body weight when someone is affected by this disease. Mental illness is also a
part of Anorexia.
Bulmia, on the other hand is also caused by such eating disorders, often called bulmia
nervosa. It is far more dangerous than Anorexia so much that it is almost life threatening. Those
people who secretly binge or consume excessive amount of food gradually lose control over
eating and exceed how much they should eat. This extra consumption often leads them to purge.
This tendency is induced by the stress of releasing the extra calories in an unhealthy and
unsystematic way (Zhang p-184-204). The fact is that; such disease is invited by judging own
self harshly based on the physical structure as the society does ruthlessly. The most dangerous
fact about bulmia is that, if it is continued for a long time, it can be hard to overcome.
However, it can be overcome by celebrating beauty in different forms. According to
some expert fashion designers, who are doing amazingly coming from all different places, first
of all the mentality has to be changed. Women have to be aware of promoting diversity among
themselves. The propensity to imitate supermodels and look like them, leads them to destroy
themselves one by one (Rudd, Nancy et al. p-30-38). Women, of all shape and size when learn to
love their own body, own entity, their rights to live equally happy and free like others, starts
resolving the issue. The fashion world is equally responsible for changing the perspective of the
society. They have to become all embracing instead of giving chance to only the slim figured,
skinny girls with white skin and ling hair they must promote the beauty of all. Every creation of
the almighty is beautiful and the society have to modify its perspectives towards it.
Recently, there are few fashion brands which have taken black models as their brand
ambassador. These black women represent their company and their apparel products. Nowadays,
one of the most effective platform is social media due to which such inherent issues are coming

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forth. The fashion industry has to use diverse models with their diversified beauty to voice the
body shaming and related issues in an effective way. The society have to learn to accept each
member of it with all their beauties and forms. Those people then would not live under the fear
of losing everything and fail in the journey of life and in the journey of making own identity. As
per the view of some scholars, the models in the fashion industry are treated like machines. This
is one of the darkest part of this industry. This industry, kind of regulates their body. They ask
the models to lose weight or sometimes put on weight according to the dress. They regulate their
eating habits, their likes and dislikes too, their whereabouts and many others. The models on the
other hand are made to believe in the society that their skin color, age, appearance, size are the
determinant of their career and identity (Elias, Sofia, and Gill p- 59-77). On a concluding note it
can only be said that the sole problem of the fashion industry can be resolved by the industry
itself. The future generation has to receive a better view of life and women especially needs to
know that their inner enlightenment can lit the world and not the outer physical appearance.

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Leonard J. Paas.
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advertising models are
optimal, most of the time:
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effect of model body size
on ad attitude by fashion

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design, production and consumption. Routledge, 2017.
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Curriculum Studies: A Métissage of Inspiration/Imagination/Interconnection (2018): 250
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Janssen, Denise M., and Leonard J. Paas. "Moderately thin advertising models are optimal, most
of the time: Moderating the quadratic effect of model body size on ad attitude by fashion
leadership." Marketing Letters 25.2 (2014): 167-177.
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