The Fashion Paradox

Hello all. As I mentioned in my previous post, I was spending a bit more time inside the house because of my academic schedule getting more and more packed as the semester is going by – oh, in passing, to answer Zeus’ last comment, I agree that being the scholarship chair might be a solution to my laziness, and of course that I would have been elected, no wonder, (right?) but mmh I don’t think I am going to run, for I think this position wouldn’t really fit my image. Oh well, we’ll see.

Anyway, even indoors, I had to find a way to make me procrastinate. It’s then that I started to pick up and have a closer look at all those fashion magazines spread all over the house, you know, the kind of ones all other girls read, like Vogue, Cosmo, Glamour, Elle, etc. For some reasons, I began to take seriously everything mentioned in those magazines. It’s getting ridiculous, but I have to admit that those guys are doing a pretty good job nowadays at catching our eyes. I mean, look at the some of these ads by Vuitton, Gucci, Armani… you know the big names, most of the shots are pretty breathtaking. They even make ME feel bad about myself and my clothes, and I’m supposed to be the goddess of beauty, the embodiment of physical perfection. Tsk tsk…

On the other hand, they didn’t make me feel bad about spending hundreds and hundreds on beauty products and apparel. The funny thing is, no matter how hard we try, no matter how much we spend, most of us still aren’t becoming even close to the image projected by those magazines. And we all realize it, we all know that it’s just very good marketing, and that all the pictures have been edited, but we still all abide by the rules set out by those medias. I would so love to save money but be hip at the same time. All girls do. I’ve consulted with many of my sisters about this frustrating paradox, but it’d be even better if we could all exchange tricks and opinions with all the sorority girls of the nation, or, I don’t know, compare ourselves... Ooh I just can’t wait till MyGreekLife finally comes out. Just imagine the endless possibilities! It would certainly help with so many of my problems.