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Fashion is the word that defies exact defination . Here , we need not vex ourselves with the dictionary meanings of the word , since even if only partly understood , the word is as commonly used as it can be.

We can call anything which gets recurrent or in frequent use to be fashion . When armed with such a definition , we can term frequent lies told by politicians , short measures given by shopkeeper , cheating methods adopt by students , strikes resorted to by employees ,cheating of worker in the matter of salary , provident fund , etc. by their employers and all such things as fashions.

When ,however ,we talk strictly about fashion , we rivet our eyes on particular types of clothes , shoes , hairstyles , etc. adopted by the people , particularly young men and girls in schools and collages .

Man has actually been fond of fashion in all the ages and in all lands . Go anywhere in he world. In each country people observing the same type of fashion will be seen which will, however , be materially different from that in other countries . Thus, fashion changes in time and place,and may be even in space.

If we look carefully at the playing cards , we will find the strange dresses worn by the kings , queens and jacks. These dresses are reminiscent of the 18th century English people who wore such dresses during that period when games of card started in a systematic manner .

Similarly , from the toys and figures recovered from ruins of various ancient civilizations as in Harappa and Mohenjodaro , the fashions of dress , beards etc. are quite apparent .

If we want to learn about the latest fashion we should go to some ultramodern college or university to have a look at dandies , fops and empty-headed gorgeous dolls walking up and down in the campus and then we can guess how youthful human energies can be wasted on trifles and to what extent.

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