Yes, ugly things exist

NOTES ON "Get handsome, dress ugly" by Regina Navarro

Yes there are ugly things

Reflecting on beauty and ugliness, we normally shield ourselves

in the idea that there are no ugly things with the easy to remember phrase:

"For tastes, colors."

Well, in fashion, if there is objective ugliness, it is about seeking to be ugly in order to be attractive. Fashion is ugly and not subjectively but objectively. This is so when we find proposals in which we observe that:    

• Things that don't go together easily.
• Colors are mixed that attract too much attention.

The author of the article links this trend with the current need to be visible, to be transgressive, forcing fashion and highlighting the image. This causes things to lose value and the current trivialization of fashion ends up harming it. Fashion was born to represent what you want to be and what you want.

Consumerism and continuous impacts on social networks lead to consuming "ugly" alternatives. This happens with the excuse of being "little thought out" styles with four things that you have and everything is always "acceptably good".

The extreme ugliness that is shown is considered when the consumer is exposed in society, by putting the consumer in a difficult scenario in which they have to join those Tetris pieces to create looks that can be worn.

In the words of the author, since the combinations are so complicated

"Individual ideas are taken ... it's hard to see complete outfits".

The ugliness denotes the lack of quality in current fashion added to the damage of fast fashion that promotes short-term trends for accelerated consumer behaviors.