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GOD CARES ABOUT FASHION, MORE THAN YOU THINK

  I assure you, this isn’t headed where you think it is. In contemporary Christendom fashion is wayyy below the paradigm. I mean no Christian will tell you fashion is of greatest importance in the kingdom of heaven, Holiness is right there unless there’s an addendum – a declaration of modesty and how ‘women’ ought to dress conservatively but no one sees God as a Fashionista, as someone who cares specially for clothes. I’m here to prove that idea wrong by illustrating the story of ‘Moses and Aaron.’ Incase you have no idea who Moses is I’ll give you a brief introduction: Moses, Hebrew, was born at a time Egypt was quite uncomfortable for the Hebrews and that’s putting it mildly. The Pharaoh of Egypt had demanded the killing of the sons of the Hebrew so it wasn’t the best of time to have male children but by the mercies of God Moses was snuggled out by his sister in a basket. He was placed in a river, where he was ‘founded’ by Pharaoh’s daughter where which she adopted him as...

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...