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FASHION: AN INSTRUMENT OF REBELLION

 You know what rebellion is? That thing people tend to do when they're exhausted with authority or wish to exact their will over any authority? You know that thing children do to their parents, citizens to their government? Yeah.... Rebellion, by it's dictionary definition, is the act of resisting authority, control or convention. People rebel in many ways, the most popular being by protests. However, a redundant medium of resistance has been through "Fashion." As evinced by History, Fashion was utilized as an avenue for altering the conventional standards in society. The motive behind this is to create a visual perception of uniformity amongst protesters and ensure the objective of said protest is properly understood. Rebelling through Fashion could be conveyed through colors, piece of clothing or in contemporary period, Shirts containing phrases or expressions significant to said protest.  Most of these ensembles were rather implied instead of literal in its meanin...