Human Communication And Its Own Purpose

While on a shopping trip, a group of my friends had decided to purchase the more expensive designer clothing. I, on the other hand, was attracted to my favorite attire – a generic tee-shirt and a pair of athletic shorts.

In life, there are certain stations where you just have to lie. In society, just by people changing their clothings can make other people think differently. “When I put on a suit to go to see a client, I feel as though I am putting on another face.” (Ericsson 122). Even if a poor person wears a nice suit, people will automatically think that person is a formal person.

In the end, Ehrenreich found herself unsuccessful in obtaining a job, and as she reflects on her journey she critiqued the current white-collar corporate world on its “ill-defined expectations, of manipulation and mind games, where self-presentation—as in “personality” and “attitude”—regularly outweighs performance” (Ehrenreich 234). Ehrenreich argues that self-fashioning, along with the attitude transformation preached by career coaches is not what people need to obtain secure and worthy jobs, but rather, it is society and its culture that needs to change. Though there is truth to Ehrenreich’s concern for the corporate world’s unforgiving nature and its false priority of image over skill, I think that Ehrenreich goes too far in rejecting the idea of self-fashioning. From Ehrenreich’s book, we could see a few ways to self-fashion: by tweaking our résumés, dressing up to make ourselves make look presentable, going past our introverted selves to network with others, and speaking up confidently to tell others what we want. Though all these actions seem superficial, I claim that self-fashioning

Ever since their invention many centuries ago, clothes have been used as a way of communicating. The message communicated relies on a number of factors including the social background of both the communicator and the receiver, and the context in which the message is communicated. Although at times the exact message or symbolism one is trying to portray may not be clear, it is evident that clothing has long been embraced as one of the best ways to project one’s desired personal image to those around them.

Over the course of the history of clothing styles and production, one thing has never changed: a person’s wealth directly influences

Clothing has its own meaning in communication. We are being judged by our clothing every time we come in contact with someone. Human communication is accomplished by two ways, one third by words and the rest by nonverbal communication (Hickson, 1989). Clothes serve to be protection, social identification, sexual attraction, and many other services. Someone’s clothing can be different compared to others. Their clothing is based on their age, gender, occupation, personality, and values. According to William Thourlby, there are ten decisions that people around someone make based on their clothing along (Hickson, 1989). The ten decisions are:

Fashion reflects the attitudes of a society more than any other art form. Like art, fashion is a material record of the ideals that swayed the nations at the time of their creation. Through examining the styles, and tastes of a particular era, we can realize where the interests and priorities of a time lie. As Frank Parsons wrote in his 1920 study, The Psychology of Dress, "There is surly no better field in which to trace the devious paths of human thought than in that of clothes, where man has ever given free play to self expression, in a way which, thought not always a credit to his intelligence, is yet quite true to his innermost self, whether he will acknowledge it or

Second, wearing certain products gives other people the image that they are set in a certain place in the economic ladder. For example, people who buy

A person with poor dressing style may be portrayed as one who is disorganized. Instead, a person with proper dressing style will manifest a diplomatic or conservative representation of order and respect. The image clearly represented someone who indeed has a

The way a person dresses is essential to determining their personality and way of thinking. The details of the garments the people are wearing reveal that they are high on the social

During our life we construct many different identities of who we want to portray ourselves as to the rest of society; fashion plays a vital role in generating who we are. With the ideas from Storry and Childs they state that “the way that we dress can either serve to confirm or to subvert various facets of our identities, such as our gender,

“BEFOR I CAN TALK TO YOU, PEOPLE SHOW THEIR SEX, AGE, CALSS, POSITION, WITH WHAT THEY ARE WEARING. ALL THIS IS REGISTERED UNCONCIOSLY“ Those words said by Alison Lurie in the language of clothes (1992), reflect perfectly the main point of my research. The society we are now living is an extremely conscious society regarding body image and the way we are presented to the exterior. We found an obsessive trend on wanting to look like celebrities by having certain items or looks and in relation to that a fear of not being percepted the tight way. This is where we found relation to how clothes are part of a conversation we haven 't started and are a form of expression. As there will be explained further on, we use clothes as a sign of our identity,as a way of representing ourselves and stand out from the crowd and also influence on how we appear in front of others making them (clothes) a huge part of our non verbal communication. This essay will discuss the ideas behind self -expression and the role of clothes has changed in that mater thought time.

First a notable influence of fashion on self-perception is that it leads to a person developing confidence. The manner in which an individual has dressed will determine whether he will be confident or not. What an individual wears at a certain point leads him or her to develop power not only on himself but also on others. Evidence of this can be shown in a research carried out in the

As stated before, psychology is a form of self-expression, and a form of visual communication. The way one dresses may put one in a fashion subcategory. These subcategories are thought of as a whole and are subject to judgment and discrimination of sorts. For example, a person with many tattoos and a vintage style of clothing may be viewed as a “hipster”, and hence the viewer may assume many things of the individual. The fit of garments say many things about oneself. Made-to-fit clothing on men in the business world is more respectable than non-tailored clothes. With women, skirt suits create the balance between attractiveness and masculinity in order to appear respectable, much more than the overly aggressive pant suit. One may see the effect of clothing when one researches on how to dress for an interview in order to make an impression upon the hiring manager.

One of the unique things that distinguish human beings from other animals is the manner in which we communicate in a very complex manner. We share concepts, we record ideas for future use and learning, we have memories, we create stories out of fiction for pleasure, and we learn through a highly complex set of cognitive functions through language. Somehow, in our evolutionary past, our ancestors took information from the environment (smell, touch, sound, etc.) and converted it into information that could be shared. Some of that information became memories, some of it became tradition, and it all became part of the development of culture (Ormrod).