Fashion is a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, body or furniture. Fashion is a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style in which a person dresses. It is the prevailing styles in behaviour and the newest creations of textile designers.[1] Because the more technical term costume is regularly linked to the term "fashion", the use of the former has been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while "fashion" generally means clothing, including the study of it. Although aspects of fashion can be feminine or masculine, some trends are androgynous.

hate myself every time I do it, but I just can't stop. I wish that I could." After every meal, Fiona makes herself sick. It's embarrassing to go to restaurants with her, because in between courses she'll excuse herself and disappear to the toilet for a long time. At home, she'll empty the contents of the fridge then spend the rest of the evening in the bathroom. You'd never know about her private hell just by looking at her though; she's a pretty girl, with a good figure although she sometimes says she'd like to lose a bit of weight. But her body is suffering; her teeth are starting to decay due to the stomach acid she vomits up, her knuckles are calloused because she puts her fingers down her throat to make herself sick, her skin is broken out because she doesn't let herself absorb the vitamins in her food and she sometimes coughs up blood because constant vomiting has damaged her stomach lining.

Unlike AIDS, say, or cancer, where drug companies stand to make money by developing a cure, there is little commercial gain or public acclaim to be had in understanding eating disorders.

Fiona is bulimic: like her, an estimated 3.5 million women in Britain suffer from some form of disordered eating. This is a statistic considerably more shocking than that of AIDS/AIDS-Related Condition, but public awareness of eating problems is still low. After all, don't all women diet? Don't women like to diet? Surely women have to diet? Obviously women have a tendency to fat. Women are so self-absorbed. No-one is much disturbed by statistics that show thousands of women dying each year from self-imposed body abuse. It took Princess Di's admission that she was a sufferer to make the British media realise that the problem even existed. Unlike AIDS, say, or cancer, where drug companies stand to make money by developing a cure, there is little commercial gain or public acclaim to be had in understanding eating disorders. They are not conditions which can be treated with medication, they are not 'glamorous' and they rarely find their way into the pages of the press. But they exist, nonetheless, and cause countless women untold misery.