With just a few pictures extracted from our very own LOCAL online shops, we can obviously see that the answer is absolutely NO !

Stop by Cineleisure on a Friday or Saturday night, and there awaits an unspoken fashion competition at the very steps of that mall. For a mental image, try picturing girls with messy hair and high buns wearing high-waisted shorts obviously matched with gladiator studded heels, guys wearing big framed glasses in skinny pants matched with vests.

And if you're looking pretty good yourself, anticipate head-to-toe glances that all the fashionistas would be shooting at you. The longer they stare, the more confident you can be about winning the competition :>

Another famous reason to dress up is to take multiple full-length pictures of one self, showing off to the more unfortunate eyes which didn't manage to bump into you whilst you were sashaying through town.
And where else to post these but lookbook.nu, also known as "The internet's largest source of fashion inspiration from real people around the world."

A lookbook is definitely every fashionistas must-have. Why dress up if you can't show as many people as possible how creative of an outfit you can come up with ? More so, to people around the globe !
And from lookbook, a typical Singaporean can easily pick out looks they'd wanna copy off.

Already we have more than a handful of Singaporeans owning their own lookbooks.

However, how far should one go with fashion ?

Just a few fridays back, when i was at Zouk, i saw a friend of a friend who was wearing a cropped jacket made out of BUBBLE WRAP. Yes, you heard me right. Cheap ol' bubble wrap you get from the inside of a package box.
Eeps.
Aside from it being a faux pas though, it would come in handy for say, if you were bored waiting at the bus stop, you could pop away at your jacket !
*Pop* *pop* !

And we all remember that whole gladiator sandals trend. I wouldn't walk through town without seeing at least10 pairs of glads trotting around. Even Fiona xie sported a pair on an episode of Calefare !

There are the fashionists and there are the blind followers of fashion trends.

Ohmygod, and i just remembered another faux pas.

None other than CROCS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Hehe i purposely chose the ugliest colour)

I have always always hated crocs. Ugly is the new beautiful ? Eeks.

:>

Despite all these little oddities here and there, generally Singapore is populated with the fashion conscious. The youths of today are really up-to-beat with the latest trends.
One of the many thanks should be going to the many thousands of online clothes shops sprouting from all over the place. Every day, a new local blogshop comes advertising themselves on Facebook, Friendster and even your tagboards !
The owners of these blogshops religiously keep themselves up-to-date with the latest trends. Buying the monthly issues of Nylon(a famous teen fashion magazine) and browsing through the Forever21.com are some of their tactics, to say the least.

Some are even industrious enough to customise the clothings according to the trend. Some trend examples like, tie-dye leggings, acid-wash leggings, shredded leggings and that famous studs trend where blogshop owners from all over were witnessed to have hand-sewn studs on almost everything from bags to shoes to jackets !



With all that said, in comparison with other countries, Singapore definitely is at the rising end of the fashion conscious. From experience, i've seen that Australia is at least slightly a few months behind us in following the latest trend. And other Asian countries (aside from Korea and Japan) are kind of off the radar already.
They always stare at you like some alien when you dress how you normally dress like in Singapore...

So yeah, I'm a person who likes to dress up before heading out too. Which girl doesn't right ? I especially love the thrill of raiding through my closets and matching an unlikely outfit tgt, making the most perfect outfit ever :>

I would almost never ever wear PJs out to public though ! I mean, especially in Singapore where the idea of PJs are mostly oversized tatty tees with tatty shorts. Unlike when i used to stay in Aus, everyone wore cute PJs there and could confidently walk all the way out to the lawns in their PJs. I am totally addicted to cute PJs, like cute girly boxer shorts. Or cartoon printed ones !


PJs belong at home, on your bed, with your cuddly toy, no ???


*Click the first few images to open their blogshops :}