FSN 199 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Niche Market, Conspicuous Consumption, Wear-Tv
19 Oct 2016
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Chapter 1:the interplay of commerce and culture before the first. Elitism in fashion has always been linked closely with status and social class, with success and with what was perceived to be impeccable taste made publicly visible through dress. Royal courts would use fashion as a mean of publicizing their superiroritym strength and in uence across europe. Middle class in the 19th century had nancial and political power, allowed for more then one class to afford expensive clothing. Society"s that are changing will produce fashions that are also changing, which stimulates greater production of consumer goods. Middle class groups trying to emulate fashion of the higher class, forced the higher class to adopt new tasted to re-establish and maintain their original distance. The in ux of popular culture into mainstream society signalled a shift in the previously held elitist notion of what constitutes status in society. Chapter 2: the democratization of fashion- machine age aesthetics.
