/fa/ - Fashion

>>7779533
No, I don't think on a moral level wearing another culture's clothing is wrong.
You will be judged for looking entirely out of your element however, and it's people right to judge you for doing so.
I have a bigger issue with "cultural appropriation."

With increased globalization some people have begun to yearn for a "better time" when the Earth looked like the "It's a Small World After All" ride at the Magic Kingdom. "Culturally competent" individuals think that people have some obligation to practice and conform to their cultural heritage. Falling to do so is becoming "Westernized" and is destroying one's own culture in the process. I would argue that expecting ever person to be paragons of their heritage is extremely stereotypical and can quickly devolve into positive racism. Moreover, the world has never been neat little packages of different cultures. Cultures communicate, ideas are shared and the things like clothing are made better and more interesting because of it.

Take the Cowichan sweaters (pictured) for example. In the 1850's settlers introduced european style knitting to the Cowichan people. The Cowichan took the European knitting methods added their own style of yarn and patterns. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada just recently made Cowichan sweaters national icons of the country. Now some people might object to white people wearing native peoples sweaters but the Cowichan have never had an issue with white people wearing their clothing. This just makes sense, the sweater is the result of the cultures communicating. It is a historical artifact of each culture's influence on one another, not one oppressing another.