剑桥雅思写作高分范文ESSAY59

People now spend much time and money on their appearance and pay more attention to their dressing. Give reasons and your opinion on this.

It is reported that the money spent on cosmetic in the United States each year amounts to $ 200 billion, which is enough to feed all the people in Africa for two months. Alas, Africans go on starving to death despite all the talks about relieving poverty. Why is appearance so much regarded by some people?

Though it may sound harsh, the driving force behind the undue emphasis on one's appearance is vanity. Understandably, everyone is attracted to beauty and repelled by ugliness. None of us would wish to become less attractive. But our vanity may lead to excessive attention to our face and figure. Some even resort to plastic surgeries to beautify themselves, often at the risk of their health or even life. As it often happens, time and money are spent and pains are endured for no nobler reasons than to satisfy their vain self-esteem.

The changes in social mores also shape our attitude toward apperance. Different cultures treat appearance differently. In muslim countries for example, women are covered up in shawls when they go out; men all wear similar clothes. Naturally, they don't care much about how they look. In other societies, however, women are judged by their appearance. Women are supposed to be attractive and sexy while men should be virile and worldly. There is no contending with social expectation and peer pressure: most people have no choice but conform.

The inordinate attention paid to appearance and dressing is deplorable to me. I regard it as shallow and vain. The pursuit of beauty should be carried out in our mind but not over our face or body. What really counts is not what meets the eye. Priorities should be given to things of real importance. It pains me to see that so many of us get distracted by this lopsided emphasis on apperance.

 

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