Fashion is a high precedence among young victims of the recession,a final line of self-defence against povertyTo include an element of fashion in an event aimed at supporting and educating unemployed youth may be deemed by some as deeply trivial, even shockingly frivolous. Surely dressing up and prancing on stage to a disco beat is a dangerous diversion, or distracting minds from the Real Issues,presenting a happy-happy front which suggests things can’t really be as cross as people gain out?That, at any rate would be the fashion-hostile Drabble analysis of what happened final week at the Hammersmith and Fulham Unemployment Festival. Thirteen young men and women competed in a present that set the challenge of putting together an outfit at a cost of under £50. Some wore clothes they’d bought, and others things they’d designed and made. All of them took it seriously - and not just for the sake of the prizes,which included a try-out for a job at The Locker Room, a local fashion chain.
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Source: theguardian.com