"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." 19th Article of the Universal Constitution of human Rights.
The idea of the liberty of expression was born in the antiquity, more precisely in Grecee, but forgotten (more a repression) for centuries. Until John Milton and John Locke began to discuss it again. They emphasised the role of the government to proctet this right, and the American Constitution was the first one to use it, in the First Amendment “ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
But what the hell fashion has to do with fredom of expression? Everything I say, becouse clothes most of the times reflect our identity, collective our personal. And we have many examples of countries that don't respect the fredom of expression, regarding clothes, as the muslin countries were women can't walk on the streets without the burka, or even in France were muslin women can't were a burka.
We can look at world history and see that the liberty of choosing what we want to wear has grown with increased of the freedom of expression, and in times of great happiness like the end of the World Wars ( the big revolution of fashion in the 20's). Until the 20's women and men had a short variety of styles, there were only one style (in the upper class, becouse the lower class dreed the way they could) with many variations, them came the 20's there was an explosion of new things, people were happy and they wanted to forget the war so they change completly the society thus fashion had a big revolution too, what with beginning of the WWII fashion were taken in to a safer ground, with no extravagances, no revolution. The sixties were the birth of fashion as we know it, we have the pop up movment with Andy Warhol and the factory girls, we could started to see a more alternetive crazy society (mostly in the big cities as new York) were people dresses very very differently from what espected not being afraid to show the real "me", we have the hippies, and we have the elegance of Hollywod. So we can see that there were many styles from were you could choose and not just one as it had previously happened, we had the liberty to choose who we wanted to transmite to the world about us. Them we have the seventies the decade of rock and roll and in is finnals the birth of punk and we these two music styles also comes around a fashion style, being the punk style one of the biggest inspirations for fashion of the recent years. And them on and and on...
But as we can see there were a some gradation of what we could and couldn't dress, what was aceptable and what was not, nowadays we see guys with heels mere than I can walk going around Chiado and Bairro alto, girls with shaved hair and all tattooed, basicly today we can see it all, and I gess that is a good thing it means that today we can be whatever we want to be.
We can look at world history and see that the liberty of choosing what we want to wear has grown with increased of the freedom of expression, and in times of great happiness like the end of the World Wars ( the big revolution of fashion in the 20's). Until the 20's women and men had a short variety of styles, there were only one style (in the upper class, becouse the lower class dreed the way they could) with many variations, them came the 20's there was an explosion of new things, people were happy and they wanted to forget the war so they change completly the society thus fashion had a big revolution too, what with beginning of the WWII fashion were taken in to a safer ground, with no extravagances, no revolution. The sixties were the birth of fashion as we know it, we have the pop up movment with Andy Warhol and the factory girls, we could started to see a more alternetive crazy society (mostly in the big cities as new York) were people dresses very very differently from what espected not being afraid to show the real "me", we have the hippies, and we have the elegance of Hollywod. So we can see that there were many styles from were you could choose and not just one as it had previously happened, we had the liberty to choose who we wanted to transmite to the world about us. Them we have the seventies the decade of rock and roll and in is finnals the birth of punk and we these two music styles also comes around a fashion style, being the punk style one of the biggest inspirations for fashion of the recent years. And them on and and on...
But as we can see there were a some gradation of what we could and couldn't dress, what was aceptable and what was not, nowadays we see guys with heels mere than I can walk going around Chiado and Bairro alto, girls with shaved hair and all tattooed, basicly today we can see it all, and I gess that is a good thing it means that today we can be whatever we want to be.
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