These habits may seem odd but they are happening in Singapore. In the past, people often felt that their dressing was their number one priority. They insisted on wearing their best, suits and dresses at any time of their life. But if you dress with this kind of 'formality' in contemporary society, you will immediately stick out like a sore thumb in a bunch of people. So what happened in between the past and now? Have people lost their respect for dressing? Or perhaps, as Singaporeans often say, they dress like this because 'its too hot?'Or perhaps, the answer is simpler than this. In the past, people will dress more or less the same. Men in button-up suits and women in flowery, flowing dresses. Whether there is a difference in colors, in quality or material, the people of the past dress more or less in the same way. In other words, whether they are doing it consciously or not, they are following a hidden protocol.
In a way, so are we. Our dress styles may seem weird to people of the past, but then of course, their dress styles weren't exactly normal to us either! I mean, girls nowadays dress in flowery dresses only for extremely important things like weddings and boys nowadays dress in suits only for important events like funerals. Other than that, we dress in our own style, to our own liking. But like the people of the past, we too are following a hidden protocol. This would be the 'trend.' Trends change as time pass, girls may change their jeans for shorts and pants while boys change suits with tees. One day, orange spectacles may be very fashionable and the next day, it could be black. Trends change and people are simply adapting.
Thus, to conclude, i do not agree that modern fashion is to casual. The fashion changes with time and we are not any more casual than people in the past are any more formal. We are simply defining our style as the trend goes.
