Fashion, as well as clothing in general, can make the world a better place in many ways! Fashion designers and even regular, everyday people, have the creative ability to incorporate fashion into parts of the world that use it in more ways than just "clothes." Inventions such as the bra, denim jeans, and trousers have made a huge impact on society, and helped men and women for the better.
One major way fashion could be used to change the world is producing mass loads of cheap outfits for adults and children in Africa, and other places where less-fortunate people may need clothes or blankets to keep warm. Across the world, hundreds and thousands of people work on ways they can help with such problems, because fixing them would not only make themselves feel good but create joy and happiness for the people they help. We can change parts of the world by simply helping out with clothing.
In addition to the donating of clothes to the less-fortunate, fashion can be used in another way: As a fundraiser. Annual clothing drives, garage/rummage sales, and other ways to sell/collect clothes, are great ways to raise money and garments for charities and groups-in-need, such as the homeless or elderly. Conducting a coat drive for winter, or a blanket drive, etc., and donating all collected products to charities, can help save lives of people who are dying from the cold weather and other things. Shoes are also a good way to help people out. Gathering old shoes from your closet, friends, and family, can be sent to children and adults in other parts of the world who may not own a pair of shoes. Foster children may not have enough money to buy new shoes for school, while their old ones are fallen apart. African children walk around in dirt and forests barefoot everyday. Simple fashion-related ways of donating used or new supplies and clothing can impact families more than you think. Who knows? Maybe you could save a person's life.
Clothing and clothing colors have a influential aspect of them. Garments come in tons and tons of colors and some colors sell more than others. The amount of sales per color of garment depends on a lot of things: the store, the audience, the price, and more. People buy colors of clothing that they personally like, and there are some people who buy colors that they feel look good on them, despite if the like the color or not. Some people do both. Society has put the label of pink being strictly a girl's color. Pink garments sell a lot with women, however, there has been a rise of male buyers for pink clothing. Maybe it is because they like the color; maybe it is to break the society label; maybe it is to support a cause; maybe it is something else. Who knows, but other "girly" colors sell a lot for women and girls in the fashion industry. I agree with the statement "color sells the product" because although plain white t-shirts and denim-blue jeans are classics, the introduction and obsession with colors and crazy patters in modern-time fashion had created a popular interest in society. Therefore, colored garments have been selling more than a simple black or white shirt. Colors come in an extremely large variety. Every color on the color wheel comes in various tints and shades, and there are infinite color combinations to choose from. Creating a piece of clothing in a way that no one else has ever seen before allows those trend-setters out there to adopt the trend or fashion and turn it into a "thing" where other people (trend followers) copy them. Color plays a huge part in the fashion industry and casts an influence on many other things, not just fashion in the fashion world.
