The myths of fashion

For an industry that prides itself on creativity, fads and the tendency to push boundaries, it tends to have a lot of rules.

Many people have passed on outfits because it doesn't go with the ''Do's'' of fashion myths which when in actual fact the outfit suited their body shape and skin tone.
A lot of these rules have been around for decades, they relate a lot to that of 'old wives tales', tales that sometime people believe because of superstition and appearance to the outside world, but are the same rules that applied years ago still true today?
The runways and fashion statement of today beg to differ.

My mission is to find out if these myths do in fact still stand today and photograph them.

'You can't wear gold and silver together'

As we all know there are two primary metallic colours in the world of jewellery - gold and silver. But if you have a gold wedding ring for instance then does that mean you can't ever wear silver again? That's ridiculous!
Every jewellery store today has stunning jewellery pieces that have the silver-gold combination. Silver and gold together has now become a very popular trend within jewellery today but does this mean that the myth is false?

'Horizontal stripes will make you look fat'

This is one of the most famous fashion myths that many people go by today. The myth here is that horizontal stripes draw the eye across the body, making you appear wider and vertical stripes are meant to draw the eye up and down the body making you appear slimmer and taller.
However a study done by a perception expert at the University of New York found that people find horizontal stripes to appear more slimming on the body as vertical stripes which are widely set apart provides the eye with width illusion. This actually goes against this myth?

'Never mix and match prints'

Vintage clothing has made a huge comeback, and as a result loads of people are wearing mixed prints. Stripes are seen with paisleys; Fleur-dis-lee can be seen with plaids, so it seems that no-one is playing by the rules of these myths anymore?

'Never wear dark tights with light-coloured shoes'

In fact dark tights god really well with light-coloured shoes as beige tights wash you out. Black tights are actually at an advantage as they make your legs appear slimmer and more toned as beige tights are more baggy as they have a smaller denier.
Nude colour shoes, especially high heels end to go especially well when paired with black tight as they have a good contrast between them and make your shoes stand out from your body.
Does this go along with the myth?

Overall I found that this experiment was quite an interesting one, how I got to understand the myths of fashion and how many people abide by them within daily circumstances. I thought that the experiment also paired really well with the 'Acting like robots' post as its almost a developmental stage coming on from the previous post. 'Acting like robots' was the viewing of the myths and how the designers are trying to teach people about the myths and how the designers themselves are abiding by the 'rules' in order to get people to buy their clothes because if they didn't do this then the superstitious population would not buy their clothes if it was too way out with the creativity and designing of the products being sold.
I found that this was quite an educational post as it taught not only me but my audience about these myths and how to overcome them. Fashion seems to be developing and in the future maybe it will break all the boundaries and we can then all leave these myths and 'rules' behind.