Fashion is the current trend in style or dresses a person wears that includes clothing, shoes and other accessories like sunglasses or jewelry. The youth are especially drawn towards what is hot and mostly they draw their inspiration from the models and the film stars. The market is flooded with fashion jewelry, designer suits and saris, belts, earrings, bracelets, brooches, rings and even wigs of different hues to adorn the heads of the svelte as well as voluptuous women and girls alike.

If you delve deep into the family album and pore over the photographs taken decades ago, you will not fail to notice the people of those times tried their best to look as presentable as possible before facing the camera. Fashion of the past seems to have been seated in the time warp for a long, long time. It was not like today when you see the change in fashion with each change in season.

Whenever it comes to fashion, we think of the fairer sex, but that’s not true. Boys too have become fashion conscious or savvy, thanks to the media and entertainment. Now a day it’s not unusual to find a man wearing pink or mauve, sporting ear-tops and coloring hair with a myriad of shades. Just have a look at the shoes for both men and women. They have gone through a revolutionary change in style, pattern, material and color. The earrings are no more the stereotyped pendulous objects made of either silver or gold. In every city, town or even rural areas, the vendors have a hell of a time peddling an array of designer jewelry, bracelets, brooches, hairclips, lipsticks, belts, shoes and even designer sunglasses. They may be tawdry in make or loud in color, but they sell, and that’s what matters.

There has been extensive coverage of the fashion shows, beauty contests and ramp walks and all by both print and television media. And when we talk of television, there is no denying the fact that Television is one media that has, through its plethora of soaps, added a different touch to the way people dress today. You may snob at the heavily made up protagonist of that serial, but there are millions of girls and homemakers who can do anything to look like them.

There is one fashion segment that is fast catching up with the fancy of the people, especially the ladies. This is the segment of Cosmetic Contact Lens. The medical aid that used to be of help to the myopic populace is no longer limited to that section. There are contact lenses of as many colors as are the colors of the shoes, belts, earrings or even the watch straps.

The plastic surgeons were a rare tribe even a couple of years ago whom we saw in the movies used by the dons to change the face of the villain for some ulterior motive. Now Indian plastic surgeons are as busy as their brethren in Las Vegas giving face lift, nose sculpting and breast implant to the girls lining up their chambers.

Even the conservatives who turn up their noses at the blind imitation of the west by our teenagers will vouch for the fact that with the advent of the free market, surge in the IT sector and a tendency of consumerism have made the appearance of the people quite cool and colorful. Look at the crowded markets or railway stations and you will find people from all walks of life looking vivacious and colorful. Definitely, there has been a radical change in the way the populace used to look upon the fashionable. Sometimes you feel like that the new era of fashion has brought the people on a level playing field with borders and distinctions based on birth or background having been blurred.