雅思写作：时装的重要性及利弊

Answer 1

　　Task：Fashion becomes more and more important for people to choose clothes, why? Is it good or bad?

　　思路分析：

　　时装的重要性1：广告宣传。举例，广告总是吹嘘，一旦穿上时装，人就能变得漂亮，优雅和迷人。这刺激了人们通过购买昂贵的衣服来获得这些特征。

　　时装的重要性2：能提升人们的形象。举例，一套得体的时装能增加面试和约会成功的几率。

　　时装的好处：释放压力。今天的人们个性被压抑，每天被迫穿着相同的制服，如校服和工作服。所以，购买和穿着那些设计独特的衣服是一种找寻自由，表达自我，和释放压抑的方式。

　　时装的坏处1：诱惑人们进行过渡消费。时装属于奢侈品，为了买一件时髦的衣服，人们很可能花光所有的收入，甚至是基本的`生活预算，这导致生活出现危机。

　　时装的坏处2：建立了一种“以貌取人”的观念。人们总是凭借一个人的外表来评判一个人的才能，这对于那些没钱买贵衣服的穷人不公平。

　 　参考范文：

　　Nowadays, the phenomenon of going after the fashion is overwhelming worldwide. In my view, this tendency stems from many causes, and it has more negative influences than positive ones.

　　There are multiple factors contributing to the growing importance of fashion in people’s daily lives, and the first one is the influence of advertisement. In too many commercials of famous-brand fashions, some external values are appended to costly and trendy clothes, like beauty, grace, success, charm and dignity. As a result, these traits draw much attention of the consumers and persuade them to pursue fashion. Another reason of fashion preference among the public is that it makes contributions to the improvement of personal image. For example, as for a young female, wearing fashionable and often costly clothes is a convenient way which not only can boost her self-confidence in a job interview, but also makes her more attractive in dating a man.

　　To some extent, choosing fashion clothes is beneficial for the mentality of modern people. In fact, today, personalities of the public are always inhibited because they are forced to wear the same-style clothing, such as uniforms in school or work wear in workplace. Hence, the pursuit of fashion featuring unique designs, colors and patterns is a good way of helping people to get rid of the feelings of stress, monotony or oppression. In other words, by shopping or wearing favored fashion in leisure time, people can recover the freedom for the expression of individuality, and a good mood as well.

　　However, demerits of fashion should never be ignored, and the main one is that a strong desire of owning costly clothes stimulates the overconsumption of people. Generally speaking, fashion clothes belong to luxury goods whose prices are incredibly high. In too many cases, people obsessed with fashion cut off the basic budget of daily life, or max out credit cards, for the purpose of purchasing a single expensive luxurious dress, which, eventually, causes the finance out of balance.

　　The most worrying aspect is that this trend builds up a wrong admiration of materialism among people. In a fashion-oriented society, People wearing famous-brand clothes are respectable and prideful, while the ones who cannot afford the fashion are despised. Therefore, under such social values which judge people through their appearance, instead of talents and abilities, people in poverty would be discriminated and mistreated, even lose the competition in job employment.

　　In conclusion, the high popularity of fashion lies on two main reasons, temptation of advertisements and the purpose of improving the personal image. Besides, I believe the disadvantages of this trend are over its advantages, because crass materialism causes people to forget the limitation of money spending or spiritual values.

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