HUEC 2045 Chapter : Exam 1 Chapters 2 5 Review
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Stages of the fashion cycle: introduction, rise, culmination, decline, obsolescence. Fashion demand depends on a high level of economic development. Note: england was 1st country to stop wearing national dress: economic development & well-being of a country or society, the sociological characteristics of the class structure. 2 forms reaction to convention: rebellion against convention - characteristic of young people, the majority tends to adhere to convention - in own group or class or in general. Accelerating factors 7 factors: wide spread buying power, leisure time, more education, improved women"s status, technological advances, sales promotion, seasonal change. Retarding factors delaying factors: habit & custom, religion, sumptuary laws, nature of merchandise, decreased buying power. Historically, as attention to a part of the anatomy reaches a saturation point, the fashion. Regulate what we can and cannot purchase spotlight shifts to some other point. Styles reoccur - suit the times they reappear. Similar silhouettes appear in fashion approximately every 100 years.
