The Language of Fashion

This month's blog will visit a quandary that hits all bloggers and readers at some point or another.

In order to present your views on fashion, are you going to choose a digital platform, a print platform, or will you concentrate on visuals, images, cams, videos, or instagram messages?

This blogger, although excited, about the various ways we experience or encounter fashion can't keep from thinking that the language of fashion is poetic.

Every time I come away from reading or perusing an article on fashion, I find that the semantics, phrases, words, all have to do with the poetic, visual imagery in the form of words. Every dress is detailed or described concretely and suggestively. One steps away with a picture and with concrete information about the concept, subject, article of clothing, a fashion venue, or a show.

I also think of people that view fashion as more science or in the realm of technology or tech education. They are fascinated by the digital arena, and are split between the world of print and the world of digital, which I will term the digital divide.

To a person that views fashion as poetry, all these arenas strike me as poetry. The very nonverbal inspires one to be verbal. One has to sort through words mentally to describe what one has just discovered. If someone sends you an instagram, of course, you are going to have words to describe or revel in the transmission. For example, a photo of a young child with a trench on made me think of words like "new beginnings" or "spring." I can then choose to articulate that after the first view or whenever it strikes or suits me.

Fashion writers and bloggers all have to dilly - dally with the poetic, whether they realise it or not. Most all will succumb to words that the media is using currently, or they will choose common words that describe likes, dislikes, or identify with a local group or an audience.

If you are a writer, don't forget to pause and focus on just what is poetic in the language of fashion. It holds onto one and grabs one from the outset. Then, one has to determine what form or format one will communicate that concept.

If you are straining to determine which media you prefer, digital or print, remember there is that common fusion of the poetic that rules or bonds the two together. Obviously, a writer or photographer may choose their own strengths when it comes down to it, but the question of the poetic is answered in the blogosphere by the simple act of transmission of the message(s) itself.

It is all poetic!

That state of being is what remains long after one is done reading or viewing the piece.