FSN 223 Lecture Notes - Eurocentrism, Sumptuary Law
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How does the style spread, does it gain popularity than trickle to the street. Popular culture and fashion (print and online, challenging beauty) Anti fashion: an outfit that is considered outside of fashion, this can become fashion. 3 main elements the clothes we wear function as symbols colors change between colors and over time represent the identity of us in distinctive way: fashion is a system of communication. We pick things for a particular reason. Pink means different things in different contexts: fashion helps us define ourselves as ind and group members. How much is about you and how much is apart of a larger thing. We can experiment and be creative but we follow patterns in our clothing. Black is the most sold color in the industry: the essence of fashion is change. Clothing codes that balance the impulse to belong to a group and the individual desire to stand out and assert that attributes of the self .