joanna bujes writes:
>Well fashion changes go back to year zero, I'm sure. But, sure, the
involvement of the less than rich in the game is parallel with mass
production.
>What I find most interesting is that fashion has not actually changed
for twenty years (except for the very rich and the young.) For the young
grunge gave way to hip-hop; for the rich, who cares? For the rest of us it's been pretty steady on. They tried reintroducing the mini-skirt, with very little success. They did a little better with calling back bell-bottoms, but still only the young wear them. So what happened?
>My suspicion is that the culture is truly spent, and the fact that it's
spent/depleted on the symbolic plane underlines this all the more. It
remains to be seen whether a war with the Middle East will lead to
making harem pants fashionable....but, all that aside, there has not been a new fashion idea (other than ethnic) since the sixties, and the sixties
stuff was pretty awful.<
maybe one of the successes of the feminist movement is ending the fashion tread-mill, at least for middle-class women?
on the other hand, men seem to have become _more_ conscious of fashion during the last 20 years.
Jim
