This document discusses fashion victims and how to avoid becoming one. It defines a fashion victim as someone who takes trends too far or wears too many styles at once, making their look ridiculous. Some signs of a fashion victim include prioritizing brands over comfort, blindly copying styles, and believing fashion should be uncomfortable but beautiful. The document provides tips to avoid being a fashion victim, such as shopping for styles you like, accepting your body, setting a budget, and choosing basics over trends. It warns that extreme fashion trends like skinny jeans, hair extensions, fake tanning, and high heels can negatively impact health. The conclusion is that fashion should be about comfort, individuality, and originality rather than

1. Fashion
Victim

2. What is fashion ?

3. Fashion is a general term for a popular style or
practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories,
makeup, or furniture. "Fashion" refers to a distinctive;
however, often-habitual trend in a look and dress up of a
person, as well as to prevailing styles in behavior.

5. WHAT IS FASHION VICTIM ?
“It's a person who crosses the boundaries of fashion and style, like
taking a fad too far, or wearing too many trends at once and
therefore taking the look from the glamorous to the ridiculous.”

6. Are you ?

7. “Since the mid-1990s, feminist opposition to
fashion has all but evaporated. But are all
these must -have It bags, new -season dresses
and vertiginous heels really making women
happy?” (Charlotte Raven,2009)

8. You’re consider a fashion victim if :
Brands are of utmost importance for
you. You can spend all your salary
on a Gucci bag and then live the
whole month with an empty pocket.
You copy the reputable fashion
icons’ styles blindly.
It is essential for you to have
a fashionable piece from the
latest collection.

9. You are fond of makeup. You have fake
eyelashes, your hair is dyed or you have
hair extensions.
You believe that clothing can be
uncomfortable but it should be beautiful
and fashionable.
Your tan is fake and you have tanning
beds more often than it is really
necessary.

10. Fashion Victims !

11. HOW TO AVOID
BEING A FASHION
VICTIM

12. JUST FOLLOW THESE
SIMPLE STEPS :
1 Shop for styles you like.
2 Accept your body.
3 Know your sizes.
4 Set a budget.

13. 5 Gravitate toward basics over trends
6 Look at designs over brands.
7 Avoid over-accessorizing
8 Wear clothing that fits the
occasion.

15. “When did we stop
believing that fashion
was bad for our psychic
health?”(Charlotte
Raven, 2009)

16. HAIR EXTENSIONS
MAY MAKE YOU GO BALD !

18. SHOES MAY CAUSE B A C K , K N E E
AND HIP PROBLEMS !

19. WEARING SKINNY JEANS
CAN CAUSE NERVE PROBLEMS !

21. REAL CASE
“After taking a thorough
medical history, the
reason for the tongue
lesions as clarified. As
an unusual fashion-
conscious teenager, the
patient had been trying
to achieve a dark
summer tan and visited
an aesthetic salon to use
a tanning machine.
(Burns, 2009)

23. #2 - HANDBAGS

24. #3 – HEELS
S wa p yo u r f o u r - i n ch h e e l s f o r h e e l s
l e s s t h a n t wo i n ch e s h i g h . O p t i o n a l f o r
a we d g e o r a ch u n k y h e e l ove r
s t i l e t t o s, w h i ch w i l l g ive yo u m o r e
s u p p o r t . Make sure that you limit the amount
of time you wear them.

25. #4 – SKINNY JEANS

26. #5 – FAKE TAN
Read the ingredients properly.

27. Fashion is all about comfort
Fashion is all about being yourself
Fashion is all about originality

28. REFERENCES
ARTICLE

29. Burns. Fashion victim: Severe tongue burn from a
tanning machine. (2009). Retrieved from
www.elsevier.com/locate/burns.
Charlotte Raven.(2009). New Stateman, Victims of Our
Own Excess. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
Capt J. Dubose Lt Col (Sel) Jerry W. Pratt. (2004).
Victim of Fashion: Endocarditis After Oral
Piercing. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
Barbara Lippert. (1999). Fashion Victim.
Retrieved July 27, 2012.
Amber Morales. (2012). Are you a fashion victim?.
Retrieved August 1, 2012, from
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/why-
coleen-rooney-kim-kardashian-caroline-819074.
How to Avoid Becoming a Fashion Victim. Retrieved from
Wikipedia : http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Becoming-a-
Fashion-Victim.

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