Personally, I've always made a difference between fashion and style. The former is temporary, and in time becomes obsolete and passes away. As C.S. Lewis says," The more up-to-date the fashion, the sooner it is out-of date." But this is not so with style. The worldling tells us style is, "out of Fashion," but I say, on the contrary, style will outlive a thousand and one fashions.
Fashion rules the hour and draws all such as are uncomfortable in their own skin. If it's the fashion, it must be done, say these conformists. It is the law of the chameleon; their number is legion. Oswald Chambers commenting on fashion says, "It is the common consent of fools."
All fashion finds its roots in someone who dared to be different. These bold souls do not follow the fashions, they create them! Those with style can be described as particular, individualistic, distinctive, creative. Which all can be summed up in two words: tailor made.
Being fashionable, physically or spiritually, only shows we are not content with what God made us. We give up the original copy for a smudgy carbon.
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