After graduation a person often enters into a state of rebellion. For myself, I experienced a mild form of the phenomenon. I wanted to get an ear piercing. I had grown up in a culture where tatoos and piercings had tranformed from a social taboo into a cultural norm. At my high school, anyone who was anyone had a cartlidge piercing. I was never allowed to follow this trend because my mother said that it was not practical because of cheerleading.
As our textbook states (Frings, 2008) "fashion changes because it reflects changes in people's lifestyle and current event's, people's need change, [and] people get bored with what they have."(p.63). As soon as I turned eighteen I was ready to have a change and cure my boredom. I wanted to have the …show more content…
There was a fairly high risk that they could damage the cartilidge of your ear. Due to this fact, none of my friends had this particular piercing. I had taken a popular trend and turned it into something that made me feel unique. As stated by Fring's (2008) one of the motives for consumers to buy is to "establish unique identies with fashion"(p.72).
In a more negative aspect, I had to take the piercing out as soon as college started. In the univerisites opinion any upper cartilige piercing was considered unprofessional. They believed that many elderly people would view the popular trend as distasteful. In their era, piercings and tatoos were not the norm. Style tended to be a lot more subtle. It was very important to the university and the nursing home that we were the model of professionalism and respect.
Whenever watching "The Jeans" an episode from the ABC's popular t.v. show, The Middle I found myself relating to Sue Heck. Whenever a fashion is popular, especially in high school or college, it is pivotal that it is followed. At that maturity level, it is truly a tragedy to be looked at as different. Sue's whole attitude changed from dreary to supreme confidence when wearing her name brand jeans. This happens to a lot of kids, myself included. Sometime it takes a piercing or a new pair of jeans to build
As our textbook states (Frings, 2008) "fashion changes because it reflects changes in people's lifestyle and current event's, people's need change, [and] people get bored with what they have."(p.63). As soon as I turned eighteen I was ready to have a change and cure my boredom. I wanted to have the …show more content…
There was a fairly high risk that they could damage the cartilidge of your ear. Due to this fact, none of my friends had this particular piercing. I had taken a popular trend and turned it into something that made me feel unique. As stated by Fring's (2008) one of the motives for consumers to buy is to "establish unique identies with fashion"(p.72).
In a more negative aspect, I had to take the piercing out as soon as college started. In the univerisites opinion any upper cartilige piercing was considered unprofessional. They believed that many elderly people would view the popular trend as distasteful. In their era, piercings and tatoos were not the norm. Style tended to be a lot more subtle. It was very important to the university and the nursing home that we were the model of professionalism and respect.
Whenever watching "The Jeans" an episode from the ABC's popular t.v. show, The Middle I found myself relating to Sue Heck. Whenever a fashion is popular, especially in high school or college, it is pivotal that it is followed. At that maturity level, it is truly a tragedy to be looked at as different. Sue's whole attitude changed from dreary to supreme confidence when wearing her name brand jeans. This happens to a lot of kids, myself included. Sometime it takes a piercing or a new pair of jeans to build