It is fair to say women love clothing. It starts when they are young and start to play dress-up games with family and friends usually with their mothers clothes. When they grow up any excuse to shop for new clothes will do, when they are sad, happy, angry, bored, etc it can be very easy to find an excuse.

When a Woman dresses and the clothes she wears is how she presents herself to the outside world. It will also have a huge effect about how she feels about herself. It is also fair to say most Women have a wardrobe full of clothes they never wear just simply choosing the same ones that they most feel comfortable wearing. Why is this? Just have to look in any women's wardrobe and you will see clothes hanging there that they hate wearing, even though they did not feel that way when they bought them. I think that there could be a lot of reasons for this.

The main reason for this would have to be: not trying things on at the store, buying clothes that are uncomfortable and buying clothes that do not match anything else that you own. What looks great in the store may not look great when you get it home. You always think I will return it later for a refund but never do, you think to yourself "it looked fantastic in the store" so it ends up in your wardrobe anyway. Buying clothing because it is the last one available and you "just know it will fit you one day". The day never arrives so it just sits in the wardrobe. Remember the gorgeous tunic top with the red strips? Sure, it is great but if you do not have anything to wear it with, what is the point?

These are just some of the reasons that many of the clothes in a woman's wardrobe just sit there. It would be great if we all had six pieces of clothing that we could build around, and accessorize, like all the magazines suggest but many of us do not. If you are a stay-at-home mum, you are unlikely to need a power suit with matching three hundred pound shoes. The same goes if you work in a factory.

Fashion magazines tend to write articles geared toward women working in offices. How often have you seen articles in Vogue or Mademoiselle Magazine on what to wear if you work at Asda or Morrisons? I read, however, an article on the latest trends in shoes. Six inch heels are supposedly all the rage. Try wearing those if you have a job that requires standing all day long.

As women get older, they become more realistic about fashion. They know what they like and they know that trends come and go. The black dress is a myth for many women because most of us are not going from the boardroom to the cocktail party and you do not need a black dress to take six eight-year-olds to a play centre for a birthday party. Of course, we can look great for a night out in a reasonably priced dress or skirt and shoes that do not leave dime-size blisters all over one's foot. If it happens to be a black dress, great. If it is not, that is okay as well.

Clothes are about what we are, not who we are. We are students, Mums, retail workers, factory workers, office workers, executives, fashion models, police officers, fire fighters, doctors, etc. Women come in all shapes and sizes and the average size women is a size 14 to 16. The clothing industry is finally starting to accept that fact and has begun designing clothes accordingly.

Clothes play a big part in a woman's life. When you are comfortable in your own skin, you will be comfortable in your clothes. Your self confidence will rise when you know you look great. If you feel comfortable in the clothes that you are wearing, and you look fantastic in them, they will lift your self-esteem then the clothing has done exactly what is was intended to do in the first place.