Fashion is an important cultural phenomenon in a society where there is a surplus of money. Annual global fashion industry revenue is a staggering $1,200,000,000,000. The models that display the new styles on the catwalks become household name celebrities and earn vast sums. When the fashions arrive in the shops they are bought up by those eager to conform to the latest trends. And what happens if Princess Charlotte sports a particular style of babygrow? The shelves clear within hours!
How awful for you if you dare to opt out of this cultural behaviour and look old-fashioned! I was mortified as a child when school skirt showed my knees and everyone else’s was calf length! Such embarrassment!
We don’t have to “join the rat-race” in this respect. In one of his letters Paul writes:
Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 [NIV]
Mairi Mowbray
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